Paris, July 18. nected akt scandal was increased to-day when Mile Marie Chautemps, niece of the ex-Premier, Camille Chautemps, committed suicide, The violent campaign which recently has been waged against her uncle in. French newspapers, charging him with complicity in the Staviski affair, had preyed heavily on the mind Mile Chautemps, it w learned after her tragic death. She "shot herself in the temple with a revolver, dying instantaneously.—United Press Laval,.M. Andre Mahieu, Radical Socialist Home Minister in Tardieu Cabinet, and M, Tardieu.
The Tatter's deposition caused a great sensation among the members of the Committee, He said that the accusations made against him in connection with one of Stavisk!'s cheque-stubs, were absolutely groundless. He' said that the name figuring on the cheque counter-fall, "which was alleged. to bbe his, was' illegible and he reminded the Committee of the fact that a number of Staviski's cheque-stubs were found to have been forged. Several of them while they were in his possession, The Minister then reproached the Committee for not having summoned him before, whereupon he launched an attack against ex-Premier Chou: tempts, as a result of which the Committee decided to allow the two sstatemen to confront each other at its night session, M, Tardieu said that Staviske's activities must have known to Chautemps and he accused the former Premier and Home Minis of having done nothing to put.an fend to the arch-crook's swindles, and of having allowed him to leave Paris Inst Christmas.
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