THE HAND OF FATE.
AN AUSTRALIAN'S DEBTS. POLITICAL COMPLICATIONS. LONDON. Nov. 26. Liabilities £2214, assets nil, was the balance-sheet presented in the Bankruptcy Court by. James de ''.'onlay, residing in Pall Mall, and formerly a Brisbane journalist.
De Conlay told the Court that he had been acting as propaganda ag»snt for various interests since 1921. The death of M. Gounaris, the Greek Premier, deprived him of £10,000 promised to him for watching Gounaris' commercial end political interests in London.
It was added by De Conlay that he expected £50,000 for Matching German interests, but the assassination of Herr Itathenau, the German Minister for Finance, with whom an arrangement had been made, intervened.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18889, 11 December 1924, Page 9
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