A WAR SCANDAL.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16034, 27 January 1920, Page 2

A WAR SCANDAL.

LEADING MANUFACTURERS

IMPLICATED,

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association LONDON, January 24.

Tlio Daily Chronicle's Paris correspondenfc slates that a remarkable war scandal has been disclosed, in which a number of leading manufacturers are implicated. It is alleged that they defrauded the State of important stocks of iron and steel intended for munitions, which the manufacturers appropriated for their own factories. The frauds commenced in 1917. Finally Fcch demanded 700,000 tons of munitions, which the Government ordered early, and half of which had only been delivered. When inquiries were made it was discovered that the shortage was due to fraud. The account books of the various Paris factories were seized with a view to prosecutions.