| Show french victims vi ati ms of big swindle sw I 1 adle deputy alleges 20 billion francs stolen from reconstruction st fund paris the reconstruction scandal i the most twinzie in all history with facts figures and find documents in I hand the forgoing fon going Is 1 the bellber dell ber to judgment of deputy Ing In goels bels the department du kord nord aich lies along the lie ile hedlun glan frontier and which suffered the ilia beamiest dam age of alt all france durin the war very trench henchman man would under mand his reference to the panama canal scandal in which hundreds 0 of f thousands of frenchmen lost jost their to enrich manipulator manipulators who had advance notice that the govern nent would redeem its bonde after de lesseps failed in Us tile attempt to die dig the canal deputy inghels esth nates that of the hundred undred li billion franca francs spent by france for repairing private da damages adamae mae more than twenty billions were stolen large loe losses paid pint first although the small those chose hose total losses of all they possessed amounted to only a few thousand franca francs are still living flying in a miserable hovels awaiting their indemnity those who showed enterprise and multiplied their losses by a hundred or a thousand were immediately paid al inghels declared they hive erected these enormous modern modem factories and these sumptuous palatial residences that you see sed in these Veva devastated stated re glonA bee see this factory the hed abed which formerly stood here was burned in 1914 before the war began if its owner claimed a million franc war damage sand tot lt it two brothers claimed francs apiece but the tate reduced the bill to they did not nok protest which proves that their claim was exaggerated next they bought op up at low prices the claims of small proprietors who tired of waiting now they have built on aror emend and thus acquired a magnificent block of build inge ultimately they will collect all those claims with interest here Is a truck gardner who lost franc worth of cold trainee frames no claimed franca damages and nd has collected cafe cate owner a millionaire the deputy next indicated an immense factory at Tur coing ng and eald said before the war that corner belonged to a 4 little cafe keeper the thit building was worth francs and was bis his whole fortune now be he Is a 11 millionaire another example cited was the case of a certain hunt club on the north coast which owned a stretch of sand dunes for rabbit hunting this land originally was acquired for a few centimes a square yard as it wai wal valueless for other purposes during durino the tile war a stray shot slightly damaged a dike on the water front and the club asked 54 44 1000 francs damages it actually received more than that and now instead of a few acres of barren sand it has a beautiful park with trees tennis courts and casino it Is only just to eay say from the gov ROT em emmetts ments viewpoint that the paying of 0 large claims first has been ligen a deliberate policy adopted in a order to get the factories going and provide work tor for the population in the devastated regions this however nalle bite it probably will be nettled settled in the coming session of the chamber of deputies will undoubtedly figure largely in hext eext springs chamber elections |
