Show GllT1GTHESCllEi1EAffl A V De Lesseps is Reported to Have Made a Statement of Fact HE WILL REPEAT IT AGAIN 1 The Panama Company Had to Choose Between Two Evils One Was Wholesale Corruption the other Threatened RuinThe Revelations Are of a Startling Character and Will Create a Great Sensation PARIS Jan 6The charges against aihut minister public works inthede Freycinet cabinet has aroused great interest in-terest As minister of public works he had important influence on the course of i the government in regard to the Panama l Canal company and the charge is substantially I sub-stantially that he sold his influence Figaro says the judge decided that the I evidence against him warrants putting him SIt on trial I I is reported that proof against Baihut and other important people whom the I government is prosecuting i due to an understanding between the government I and Charles de Lesseps under which the latter is giving all information in his I power in return to beneficiaries in the i Prnana canal corruption and will be treated with great leniency or entire Immunity SIt I S-It is also reported that de Lesseps made an unreserved statement of all facts within his knowledge and will repeat it when the cases come to trial His object is said to be not only immunity but also t convince the public that the Panama company was forced by irresistable pressure pres-sure from officials and newspapers to choose between wholesale corruption and threatened ruin of the enterprise It is said De Lesseps revelations are of the most startling character and will create a sensation in America a well a France |