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Show .. . . I PARIS, March 26. The body - of Major General Sir flector Macdonald, Mac-donald, who committed suicide here yesterday, was removed today to the British mortuary chapel," where it will await shipment . to Jits final resting place in Scotland. The French law requires that the bod- ies of suicides b taken to the morgue, but owing to the urgent desire of the British officials that the body of the distinguished oK;cer be not deposited in the public 'morgue, the usual legal requirement was waived. ' . It was said at the British embassy that no orders have been received from London concerning the disposition of the body, and it . is -expected that the family of the deceased will make the final arrangements. Both the-officials of the British embassy a,ndVthe con sul general of GreJrt Brit;aihr disclaim" any. knowledge of the existence of the I letters' which were, reported to have t . f ..V .- , , been found in the room where the general gen-eral killed himself. Mr. Inglis, the British consul general, said to the Associated Press correspondent: corre-spondent: "I have been personally assured by the commissary of police that no such letters have been found." There is evidently a desire on the part of the officials to shield the memory mem-ory of the general out of sympathy for his family. 'Efforts were made today to trace the letters and documents received by Major Macdonald from the war office shortly before his suicide, as it waa ihought they might throw light on the motive, but the magistrate who has taken charge of the dead man's effects says no letters or documents were found, except some unintelligible scribbling, which would indicate in-dicate that the writer was in a dazed condition. As a number of letters from the war office were delivered to him last Wednesday and Thursday, the authorities author-ities conclude that the general prepared for his end by first destroying the letters. The Figaro asserts that one of the letters let-ters . received by Sir Hector Macdonald from the war office on Wednesday morning morn-ing was an ultimatum ordering him to leave forthwith for Ceylon, thus destroying destroy-ing his last hope of a reconsideration of his case by the war authorities in England. Eng-land. The fact.-however, that the general took his life soon after he was observed scanning two newspapers published in England, giving the charges against him and publishing a portrait of him, is taken as Indicating that pain at the publicity, rather than any action by the British war office, determined his act. The remains re-mains were placed in a leaden casket today. to-day. . |