JACKALS OF THE WAR

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2447, 28 April 1915, Page 7

JACKALS OF THE WAR

SCOUNDRELS WHO FATTEN ON CHARITIES (Reo. April 27, 9 p.m.) Paris, April 27'. 'Astounding revelations have resulted • r'rom an investigation into the war chanties. Out of 147 boo is ties' in the Department of the Seine, 76 were fraudulent, and of these 85 nad been founded by shady financiers, most of whom had served terms of imprisonment. One society had installed a Gorman in a house controlled by a secretary who had been eleven times imprisoned, and there were several cases of Austriana • and Germans who had escaped from the concentration oamps acting as pre si" dents under false titles. Two women who had been penniless before the war were making £40 a 1 day, and another was earning £80 a .day by means of a spurious agency for the tracing of missing soldiers. Most of the societies sold goods at' exorbitant prices to customers, who bought them in the belief that the profits would be devoted to charities. Ek me- employed agents to collect subscriptions from house to house; several of these agents received commissions averaging £6 per day. The investigation was the result of 3 tailor going to the front and giving his stock of clothing for oharitable purposes. The tailor met the founder; of the society wearing one of the gift suits.