Defendant Who Has Gone Into Religious Retreat ris, Dee. 1. rounced to-day that a request had ven received front the Public Pros-for for authorization to take proceedings against who was Minister of Senator Klotz, nce in the Memenceau Cabinet, The Public Prosecutor charges Genator Kioto with uttering cheques without sufficient cover in corneefion with payment for a motor end forging the name of a busines: man as acceptor of a bill of exe change.
Senator Klutz recently retired to a religious retreat.
Resignation of M. Klotz to Face Proseeution Dee, 12, M, Klotz has resigned his position ay a member of the Senate, thus relieving the authorities of the necessity of raising the question of his immunity as a member of Patliament with a view to his prosecution, The question of his mental responsibility for his actions has still to be decided. He has entered a sanatorium on the advice of two medical expert Apart from his political activi M. Klotz was a passionate gambler.
Dee, 18.
"Lo Journal" recalls that M. Klotz! was the promoter of the scheme for founding an inter-Allied Pantheon at Amiens to commemorate the war dead of England and France and for which hundreds of millions of franes were subscribed in France and England, So far there has been no state. ment of how the worley was ap-
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