HUNGARIAN CONSPIRACY

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2338, 7 January 1926, Page 7

HUNGARIAN CONSPIRACY

AWAKENING MAGYARS SOUGHT A DICTATOR Forgers get Behind L:ape Bank FRANCE DEMANDS EIGHT MILLIONS COMPENSATION [By Electric Cable—Copyright.] i Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Wednesday 8 p.m) LONDON. January 5. The ‘‘Dally Express” Vienna corres. pondent says Prance is demanding eight millions sterling from Hungary as damages • for the forgeries of thousand-franc notes. It is also stated Czecho-Slovakia is planning diplomatic action through the League of Nations. The Socialist paper “Arbelter Zeitung,” affirms that the discovery of the forgeries prevented an outbreak by the Awakening Magyars, who aimed at a dictatorship under the Archduke Albrecht. The reason for the forgeries was the financing of this Awakening of the Magyars, which had become difficult owing to the League’s control of Hungarian finances. "Arbeiter Zeitung” declares A'dmiral Horthy, the army and civil service had been won over. Admiral Horthy was promised a Dukedom and a large estate. Prince Windigchgraetz is reported to have deserted Prince Ottp’s followers and joined the Awakening Magyars. Count Appoavi declares the forgeries have nothing to do with Prince Otto’s proposed res. toratlon to the throne. HIGHEST IN LAND IMPLICATED. FRENCH SLEUTHS SMELL OUT THE PLOT. (Received Wednesday 8 p.m) BUDAPEST, January 6. It is believed over fifty persons are Implicated ,including many highly placed state officials. The Chief of Police, M. Nadossy, has been dismissed. It is alleged he put invest!, gators on the wrong track and arranged for the Foreign Office to place its diplomatic seals on a box containing ten thousand forged thousandfranc notes, with which Colons! Jankovlcs went to Holland. Three thousand more notes have beefn seized at the Cartographical Institute here.

The French Minister declares Prance regards the plot as an attack against her financial credit. The “Daily Chronicle’s’’ special correspondent declares the plot was first disclosed to the Paris police by accomplices. Detectives went to Budapest and insisted on an investigation. They got on the track of Jankovics, who, with two others, was arrested in Holland.

During the Dutch investigations, a telegram from Budapest came into the possession’ of the police, statins that "business is bad, return immediately.” , This was traced to a man who for ten years had been Windlschgraetz’s valet. The arrest of the valet and the Prince’s secretary fol. lowed. The French detectives became convinced these were only mlddle.men and eventually demanded the arrest of Windischgraetz. DISTRIBUTOR, UNLIMITED. 100,000 FRANCS WORTH OF FORGED NOTES. (Received Wednesday 8 p.m) LONDON, January 6. Arrests/ continue to be made in connection with the great Hungarian forgery plot. The latest Include that of Edmund Olchvary, claiming to be a Serbian merchant, but who is really an ex-flying officer. He was arrested at Hamburg on the steamship Leo. It is alleged there were one hundred forged thousand-franc notes in his possession. FOUR PROMINENT ARRESTS. (Received Wednesday 7.5 p.m) AMSTERDAM, January 5. In connection with the French bank note forgeries, three prominent Hungarians have been arrested at The Hague and Amsterdam, while a fourth Hungarian, also of good family was arrested at Hamburg on his arrival from Norway with alleged false French bank notes. TRYING TO TRACE SOURCE. FRENCH MINISTER GOES TO PARIS. (Received Wednesday 7.5 p.m) LONDON, January E. The "Times” Paris corr ;spoadent says .fj-o.ee is closely following the investigation now being made in Budapest, to discover the source of the forged French bank notes. It is asserted the object of the forgers was to provide a fund for a plot, intended to place the Archduke Albrecht on the Hungarian throne, ana a nu --'.her of most highly-placed persons ars allegedly implicated. The French Minister at Budapest has gone to Paris to report to his Government, which throughout has suspected the affair had a political background.

CHIEF OF POIACE IN PRISON. (Received Thursday, 2 a.m.) BITDA-PEST, January 6. The Chief of Police. M. Nadossy, has been remanded in custody, on a charge of complicity in the forged bank notes affair.