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Show dlETTE TRAGEDY " . REOPENS INQUIRY Rochette Hearing in Progress While Bells Are Tolling for Editor's Funeral. PARIS. March 20, Two former premiers pre-miers of Franco. Joseph Calllaux and Ernest Er-nest Monls. and the chief public prosecutor prosecu-tor of the republic, Victor Fabre, wore questioned today by a parliamentary committee concerning their acts anil motives mo-tives In hindering tho trial of the banker. Henri Rochette. who. It Is averred, duped Investors out of $:t,000,000 and ultimately escaped punishment. Tho death of Gaston Calmette, editor of the Figaro, at tho hands of .Mmc. Call-laus Call-laus caused this secret page In the Judicial Judi-cial history of tho country to be reopened. Many of Its phases, still obscure, are likely to be unrolled by this Inquiry, with Its background of Inlense public feellnc. Deep personal and political rivalries are Interwoven with the attempts to raise tho screen hiding the strange transactions. While M. Calllaux, rcstlosB and with an air of suppressed passion, replied to questions ques-tions asked him by member:! of the committee, com-mittee, the bolls for M. Calmctte's funeral fu-neral were tolling. Almost nil the notable nota-ble literary and dramatic personages In Paris cither were In the little church of Saint Francis do Sales for the funeral service or followed the hearse to the cemetery. Former President Loubct and former Premiers Briand and Darthou were among tho 9000 persons who went to tho place of Intirincnt The routo through which the cortege passed was thronged, the spectators standing bareheaded In the Intermittent rain. |