FORGED NOTES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 7 January 1926, Page 5

FORGED NOTES.

THE HUNGARIAN PLOT. M( )R F. lIEV FLA Tl<■ >N S. BY CABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. i LONDON, Jan. ti. Arrests continue to lie made in connection with the great Hungarian forgery plot. The latest inciude that f of °Edmundolchvary, claiming to be ; a Serbian merchant, but who is really an ex-flying - officer. He was arrested at Hamburg on the steamer Leo. It is alleged that there were a hundred forged thousand lranc notes in his possession. Budapest reports that it is believed that over fifty persons are implicated, including many highly-placed State officials. The polite chiel, M. Xadossy, has been dismissed. It is alleged that lie put the investigators on the wrong track and arranged lor the foreign Office to put diplomatic seals on a Ih>x containing ten thousand forged thousand franc- notes with which Colonel Jankovics went to .Holland. Three thousand more notes have been seized at the Cartographical Institute at Budapest The Ereach Minister declares that France regards the plot as an attack against her financial credit. The special correspondent of the Daily Chronicle declares that the plot was first disclosed to the Paris police bv accomplices. Detectives went to .Budapest and insisted on an investigation. They got on the track of Colonel Jankovics, who with two others was arrested in Holland. During the Dutch investigations a telegram from Budapest came into possession of the police, stating that business was bad and to return immediately. This was traced to a man who for ten years had tree n Prince Windischgraets’ valet. The arrest of the valet and the Prince’s secretary followed. The French detectives became convinced that these were only- the middlemen, and eventually demanded the arrest of Prince Wind i sebgrae tz. The Paris correspondent of The Times says France is closely following an investigation now being made in Budapest to discover the source of the forged French banknotes. It is nssert“T ed that the object of the forgers was to provide a fund intended to place the Archduke Albrecht on the Hungarian throne, and a number oi most highly placed persons are allegedly implicated. The French Minister at Budapest has gone to Paris to report to the Government, which throughout suspected that the affair had a political background. An Amsterdam message states that three prominent Hungarians have been arrested at The Hague and .Amsterdam in connection with the forgeries, while a fourth Hungarian, also of good family, was arrested at Hamburg on his arrival from Norway with alleged false French banknotes. The Vienna correspondent of the Hai.lv Express says that France is demanding £8,000,000 from Hungary as damages for the forgeries of thousand franc notes. It is also stated that Ozecho-Slovakia is planning diplomatic action through the League oi Nations. The Socialist paper, the Arbeiter Zejtung, affirms that the discovery ot the forgeries prevented an outbreak by the Awakening Magyars, who aimed at a dictatorship under the Archduke Allneeht. The reason for the forgeries was that the financing of the Awakening Magyars had become difficult owing to the League’s control of Hungarian finances. The Arbeiter Zeitung declares that Admiral Horthy (the Reo-eni) the armv and the civil service haiT been won over. Admiral Horthy was promised a dukedom and a l.nge estate. . . . , Prince AVindischgraetz is reported to have deserted Prince Otto’s followers and to have joined the Awakening i t Magyars. Count Apponzi declares that the forgeries have nothing to do with Prince Otto’s restoration to the throne. BUDAPEST, Jan. 6. The chief of police, M. Nadossy, has been remanded in custody on a charge of complicity in the forged banknotes affair.