CO129-497 - Public Offices - 1926 — Page 17

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to an important post in the Indo-Chinese administration, and

to have allowed Monsieur Slaume to carry out certain financ 1#1

operations which have proved extremely profitable. The

Governor General has further, the "Libertɗ" asserts, permitted

the firm of Skoda to import into Yunnan via Tonking 7,000

rifles and 7 million cartridges, thereby prejudioing the

position of Frense vis-d-vis the Cantonese Government with which

Yunnan 18 at variance, { In this comection ses paragraph

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3 of my despatch So, 219 of the 16th instant). ruthorisation to convey these arms aerosa French territory was only granted to the Skoda firm provided that the necessary operations were carried out by certain French nationale who were personal friends of Monsieur Varenne and who are stated to have mãe 5 million franos thereby, Furthermore, Monsieur Varenne is soensed of having deliberately interfered with the administration of Justice and of having stopped certain proceedings which were being taken against a Goverment official Monsieur Sabatier, a protégé of his, who was nogused of all manner of crimes. Another grievance of the 'Liberté' is that Monsieur Varenne has incressed the item in the Indo-Chinese budget dealing with the provision of secret service funds. The newspaper, after painting out that no true Socialist should be a believer in the necessity of such secret service funds, hints that the noney will be, in fact, used for Mon-

sieur Varenne's own sinister purposes.

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In its campaign, the 'Liberté' has been assistaŭ by Monsieur Outroy, the deputy for Indo-China and a rabid eneky of Mone leur Vareme. Monsieur Outrey bus declared that

Monsieur Varenne has entirely lost the confideme of the French population in Indo-Chins and that it is eszential

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