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Show 00 CHARGES MADE OF FAVORITISM Canadian Minister of War Munitions Mu-nitions Must Explain Acts to Parliament Members. Ottawa, Ont, March 30. The government gov-ernment was waiting today to hear from General Sir Sam Hughes, minister minis-ter of militia now in England, regarding regard-ing charges of favoritism recently made In parliament in connection with the awarding of munitions contracts. con-tracts. A message advising im of the charges has been General Hughes, it was declared today. (Members of parliament stated today to-day that as an outcome of the allegations alle-gations an insurgent element had been created in the ranks of tho conservatives, con-servatives, the government party and something resembling a political crisis cri-sis has arisen. Middlemen's profits, aggregating more than ?1,500,000 are alleged to havo been obtained through the 1 awarding of contracts by the Canadian : shell committee, G. W. Kyte, mom- I ber of Richmond county, Nova Scotia II declared in a speech in parliament. He said that the profits were divided be- b tween Colonel J. Wesley Allison who connected with the militia depart- , ment, B. F. Yoakum, American rali- way magnate, and Eugene Ugnantl, 5 I formerly leader of a hotel orchestra in Montreal. -mmmmmmMmima. |