SUSPICIONS CONFIRMED

Feilding Star, Volume 4, Issue 676, 7 January 1926, Page 5

SUSPICIONS CONFIRMED

POLITICAL BACKGROUND FORGED NOTES TO BUILD UP FUNDS. / By Telegraph—Pres<j Assn-Copyright (Aust. and N.Z. Cable). Paris, Jan. o. Craii'ee; is closely ini lowing’ tlie investigations now being made in Bucharest to discover tlie source of forged French batik notes. If is asserted that the object of the forgers was to provide a fniid for a plot, intended to place the Archduke Albrecht oh the Hungarian Throne, ail'd 1 a number of mostly liiglily placed pefsotk are allegedly implicated. Tlie* French Minister at Budapest lias gone to Paris to report to his Government, which throughout suspected the. affair had a political background _

HOW IT WAS DISCOVERED Budapest, Jan. u. It is believed there are over liftv persons implicated, including many highly placed 'State officials. The Chief of Police, Dr. Nadossv, was remanded iii custody on a charge of complicity in the forged bank notes affair. The plot was first disclosed to the Paris police by accomplices'. Detectives wont to Budapest aii<[ insisted on an investigation. They got on tli? track of Colonel Jankovish, who with two others was arrested in Holland.

HUNGARIANS.. ARRESTED

Amsterdam, Jan 5

In connection with the French bank note forgeries, three prominent Hungarians have been arrested at I’lie Hague and Amsterdam, while a fourth Hungarian, also of good family, was arrested at Hamburg oil his arrival from Norway with tilleged false French hank Notes.y

Franco is demanding 1*8,000,000 from Hungary a$ damages for the forgeries of 1000 lrane notes. It also stated that CV.echo-,Slovakia .is. planning diplomatic action through the League, of Nations. Count Apponyi declares that the forgeries have nothing to do with Prince Otto’s restoration to the Throne.