WAR SCANDAL IN PARIS
SHORTAGE OF MUNITIONS CAUSED BY FRAUDS LEADING MANUFACTURERS IMPLICATED By Telegraph—Presß Association—Copyright (Rec. January 26, 10.33 p.m.) London, January 22. Tho "Daily Chronicle's" Paris correspondent states 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 mnnufiitiirers appropriated for their own factories. The frauds commenced in 11)17. finally Marshal Focii demanded seven hundre'd thousand tons of .munitions, which the Government ordered early, only half of which was delivered. When inquiries were made it; was discovered that this shortage was due to. fraud. Tbo account books of various Paris factories were seized with a view to prosecutions.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 104, 27 January 1920, Page 7
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129WAR SCANDAL IN PARIS Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 104, 27 January 1920, Page 7
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