The Panama Canal Scandal
♦ (PEB PKESf ASSOCIATION.) Pahis, December 28. Le Gaulois asserts that the late Baron Reinach promised M. Claes, an inventor, the sum of 100,000 francs to poison M. Herz, and that Claes, after receiving one fifth of the amount, confessed the conspiracy to Herz. December 29. An analysis of the viscera of the late Baron Eeinach discloses no traces of poison, and the analyst concludes that death occurred from natural causes. Bonlangist and Bonapartist agents are very active in the provinces, and are urging the peasants to get rid of those who try to despoil them. M. Zola considers the press are creating an artificial excitement, and declares that politics everywhere are marked with 'dirty business.' The hopes of the Royalists he characterises as ridiculous. The rise in Consols is mainly due to the French transferring money to Kng» land, fear being prevalent in France that a political crisis will be the outcome of the Panama Canal revelations.
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Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 82, 31 December 1892, Page 2
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161The Panama Canal Scandal Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 82, 31 December 1892, Page 2
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