ARMY SCANDAL IN FRANCE
PAYMASTER AND MODISTE MISAPPROPRIATION OF SUPPLIES ALLEGED ' Paris, March 22. A court-martial has opened t-o inquire into charges against Desclaux (Chief Army Paymaster and M. Caillaux's ex-secretary) and six others of having- misappropriated army provisions nnd supplies for the benefit of Desclaux's friend, Madame Bechoff. Major Desclaux, Paymaster to the rorces, is an officer of the Legion of Honour, receives a salary of about £1000, and is charged with stealing packages of rum, ricc, sugar, legs of mutton, hams, etc., to send thorn to Madame Bechoff, of tho tforld-famous dressmaking firm_ of Bechoff David, palatiallv housed in the Place Vendome. She is credited with an income of at least £16,000 a year, has a flat in the Avenue Henri Martin, a villa at Savig-ny-suT-Orge, which attains the dimensions of a. chateau,- and two motor-cars. Her husband is of German nationality, but was first ft naturalised Belgian, then, some time before the war, French.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2417, 24 March 1915, Page 5
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157ARMY SCANDAL IN FRANCE Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2417, 24 March 1915, Page 5
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