THE DESCLAUX SCANDAL

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 263, 5 August 1915, Page 3

THE DESCLAUX SCANDAL

The appeals lodged by th e former army paymaster, De;;elau:c, Mine. Boclicff, and th e solcßjr Verges, senior % cd by a mintairy tribunal to seven years’ impusonment respectively for theft and resale of army stores, have all been rejected by General Cousin, presiding at a Council of Revision silling in the; Chercho Mid: prison. Tim Government Prosecutor, Colonel AugDr. refuted all th e arguments of M. Morlairu, counsel for lh G accused, ami attc-r deliberating for an hour, the Court unanimously rejected the appeals. It is said that Basciaun and Mine. Bechoff now 'intend to upped to the Court of Cassation RED TAPE METHODS. There; has been a 'revision of the residential permits for foreigners in Paris; but, though it is eight months since the war began. French officialdom is as far from sure of its own rcai tape as ever. Thousands of foreigner? rcaught in Paris at th,e beginning of th e . war will never forget the days and nights they had to stand outside the Paris polic e stations to wait fer tli £*l leisurely clerks inside. The new wrinkle hag been to demand photograin's to b e pasted on the original permits, which then have had to be ratified anew by the official rubber stamp, his new process has not been managed without confusion; but. this time, protests have found their way Into the newspapers, in spite of the censor. “How will this help to catch

snirs?” asks a correspondent of the “Ma.tin.” That is probably the last thing of which the devotees of red hope are thinking. It hou'ld be added that the French themselves; though the, most patient people on earth, are getting impatient of this sort of rigmarole, and are doing their best to uproot the red tape cavaliers in their public ciT q es.