A considerable sensation was produced in Paris on Monday , by
the publication of a series of alleged revelations, com- promising a number of Ministers and ex-Ministers. The writer, M. Dupas, professes to be an ex-secretary of the Detective Service, who was employed to help M. Ribot and M. Loubet to come to terms with Arton• of Panama fame. Axton, he says, was never arrested because the Government did not wish to arrest him. Arton apparently offered to aid the Government by every possible means, provided he was given his liberty and "a sum of money large enough to enable him to pay off his debts to the Dynamite Society." He refused to give up the list of those who had received Panama money " to any less a personage than M. Carnot, inasmuch as Ministries fell, and it was the President alone who would or could use the list for the good of the country." One would be inclined to regard these revelations as altogether apocry- phal, but for a semi-official paragraph published in the evening papers of Monday. The first sentence would hardly have run as follows if the whole thing were a mare's-nest :— " In presence of the publication of M. Dupas's brochure, and even admitting that the allegations are true, the present Ministry in no wise holds itself responsible for the non-arrest of Arton."
