FRENCH CABLET RESIGNS

Taranaki Daily News, 29 January 1934, Page 7

FRENCH CABLET RESIGNS

STAVISKY SCANDAL SEQUEL JUSTICE MINISTER ACCUSED DEMONSTRATORS IN PARIS DISPERSAL AFTER FIGHTS By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright Rec. 6.30 p.m. Paris, Jan. 27. M. Camille Chautemps, Prime Minister, has resigned and.has refused President Albert Lebrun’s request to form a new Government. M. Chautemps’ resignation followed that of the Minister of Justice, M. Reynaldy, who is accused of accepting shares, for which he only partly paid, in a company promoted by Sacarzan, who is charged with fraud and embezzlement. Several thousand demonstrators attempted to march on the Chamber by devious separate routes singing the Marseillaise and shouting, “Down with the robbers!” All were dispersed by the police after fighting. Assertions that M. Reynaldy had yielded to Socialist pressure and resigned and that the Cabinet’s resignation would shortly follow, were officially denied earlier, when it was added that the Government would face the chamber on Sunday, when legislation was introduced to create a Commission to inquire into the Stavisky case.

Similovicci and Zweifel, two men accused in connection with the original Stavisky frauds, have been sentenced to four years’ imprisonment bach.