Paris newspapers have been full of what looks like the beginning of a cause célébre. The Parquet of the Seine has ordered that an inquiry shall be held into the charges of concealing war profits made against M. Thévendt, a very well known Parisian contractor.
It is stated by his accusers that M. Thévenét, who before the war was in a very modest way of business, during the war made profits of Fr. 150,000,000 (nominally £6,000,000, through providing wood, mand grenades, and other war: material for the army. Instead of Fr. 150,000,000, M. Thévendt is said to have declared to the Treasury that his profits were only Fr. 6,000,000 (£240,000), and to have presented false statements of accounts.
vue of the many witnesses is M. Alphaud, a former member of the "Temps" staff, who declares that he had been selected by M. Thévendt as the director of a new big evening paper, "Lo Vouveau Temps," for which' premises had been secured. In accordance with, the usual French custom, of trying
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