FRENCH TELEGRAPH SCANDALS.

Taihape Daily Times, 26 May 1919, Page 6

FRENCH TELEGRAPH SCANDALS.

How the telegraph service of Franco was operated during the war has just been revealed by an official investigation by a committee of the Chamber of Deputies appointed to inquire into war contracts. The report shows that the Telegraphic Controls Section, of which Mr Tannery was the head and Captains George Ladcnx and Pierre Lenoir, the active members, was responsible for scandalous abuses. Mr Tannery, the report of the Commission declares, admitted that an average of 40.000 despatches daily were held up in the Paris office, and the majority of them were never delivered. The rest of the despatches were delivered only after groat delay. Despatches held up were thrown into a waste paper basket and destroyed when the accumulation became too great, officers never informing senders or the addressees of what had happened to the messages.