STAVISKY’S CAREER
PROTECTION OF CRIMINALS DISCLOSED IN EVIDENCE . LONDON, March 22. Evidence concerning Stavisky’s career as a gambler, . .showing that crooks, spies and cardsharpers ..enjoyct? the protection of Government officials and even of Cabinet Ministers, lias been given before the Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry. It has also been revealed, reports the Paris correspondent of the "Manchester Guardian,” that the Surete Generale (the "Scotland Yard” of France) employed the most doubtful characters. There was often no clear borderline between criminals and police spies. The Surete question Simanovitch, son of Rasputin’s former secretary, concerning the murder of Judge Prince, on the eve of threatened revelation by the Judge of . people in high positions who were allegedly concerned in tlite Stavisky scandals. Simanovitch travelled to Dijon by the same train as Judge Prince, allegedly on his honeymoon. Tho newspaper "L’Action Franeaise,” which has an excellent intellL genee service, claims that the Prince mystery has not been solved because ‘he Surete Generale i? so involved in the Stavisky affair that it cannot ho expected to be a successful detective after playing the part of a criminal.
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXIX, Issue 86, 7 April 1934, Page 5
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