PLOTTING IN HUNGARY

Evening Star, Issue 19143, 9 January 1926, Page 5

PLOTTING IN HUNGARY

BANK NOTE FORGERIES AN INTERNATIONAL SCANDAL. PRINTING PRESS FOUND. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, January 8. The Hungarian note forgeries have developed into an international scandal, France, Italy, Belgium, Holland, and Czecho-Slovakia being affected iu various ways. M. Badislaws Gerve, technical manager of the Cartographical Institute, who has been arrested, admits that some of the notes were printed in the basement, ho himself haying made drawings of the plates. _ He pleads pressure from Prince Windischgraetz, who assured him that he had the highest political motives. Those arrested include Dr Szoertsoy, vice-president of the Hungarian National Union, which aims at placing the Archduke Albrecht on the throne; Herr Hallase, who manages Prince Windscbgraetz’s estates; Andre Aandor, a son of the ex-Sccretary of State,_ who admit? that bo was entrusted with a mission to Milan and Turin in order to change the notes. It is reported that Prince Windischgraetz made a statement admitting that ho received notes to the face value of 30,000,000 franrs._ The printing press has been found in his castle. The Chief of Police, Dr Nadoccy, admits knowledge of the plot, but pleads justification in the national interests. He says that the first notes were passed in Belgium. All those arrested agree that the plot has been in existence for half a year. Deputy Wanz Ulaiii, loader of the Hungarian Nationalists, who fled to Italy, has been brought back. He says that Count Bcthlcn’s Government must be swept away because of its intolerable action in arresting patriots. If this venture had been successful the members of the Government would bo grovelling on their knees before the very men they were arresting. This statement, following a denial of the forgeries in connection with a Royalist plot, caused a sensation. The ‘ Morning Post’s ’ diplomatic correspondent suggests that the forgeries were initiated by an international gang of forgers, who conceived the idea of implicating’ the political factions in Hungary in order to cover their own operations.—A. and N.Z. Cable. FURTHER ARRESTS. BUDAPEST, January 7. Three more arrests have been made in connection with the French bank notes case—At. Gerve, a technical expert at the Cartographical Institute; M. Joseph, Secretary of the Official Hungarian National League; and a voulh named Aerhaltet. —Router.