STAVISKY AFFAIR

Wairarapa Daily Times, 3 March 1934, Page 5

STAVISKY AFFAIR

SENSATIONS PREDICTED FIRE-RAISERS AND MURDERERS. Press Association Electric Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, Friday. The “Daily Mail” says that evidence which certain prominent people are desperately trying to suppress shows that Stavisky rvas one of the chiefs of a huge iternational gang of fire raisers and murderers whose activities included the burning of steamers on the high seas to reap the insurances. The reinsurance was mainly plaped in England. ' : ' Gangs scattered in England and the Continent closely co-operated in operations which'included M. Prince’s murder. Recent investigations show that the gang leaders’ wealth and influence enabled them to entangle prominent people in England and France, who, discovering their entanglement, avoided detection by implicit obedience to the gang’s orders. The Paris correspondent of “The Times” says that M. Sarraut, Minister of the Interior, announces that the counterfoils of Stavisky cheques hitherto untraceable have been found through an agent of Police Inspector Bony, dismissed in the early stages of the enquiry. They throw a great deal of new light on the Stavisky affair, and important developments are expected. GAOL FOR MADAME STAVISKY. (Received Saturday, 10.10 a.m.) PARIS, Friday. Following upon a short interrogation, a magistrate ordered Madame Stavisky’s imprisonment on charges of receiving and complicity in the swindling. Other sensational arrests are expected.