HUNGARIAN FORGERY PLOT

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19221, 9 January 1926, Page 9

HUNGARIAN FORGERY PLOT

AIAZING DISCLOSURES. | INTERNATIONAL SGAMDAL. JIVE COUNTRIES AFFECTED. several more arrests, sensationa! admissions. By Telegraph—Prpns Association—Copyright (Received 9.30 p.m.) A. and N.Z LONDON. Jan. 8. The Hungarian note forgeries case has developed into an international scandal. France, Italy, Belgium, Holland and C,7,echo-Slovakia are affected in various ways. Ladis Lausgeroo, the technical manager of the Cartographical Institute,' has Wen Arrested. Fie admits that some of the notes were printed in the basement. He himself made the drawings of the plates. He pleads that ho was induced to do this by pressure from Prince Louis WindiBchgraetz, who assured him that there were tho highest political motives for what was done. Other arrests includo that of Dr. ■ Szoertsey, vice-president of the Hungarian National Union —which aims at placing tho Archduke Albrecht on .tho Throne — Herr Hallasz, who manages Prince Windigchgraetz's estates, and Reaandor, son of » the ex-Secretary of State. Other persons who havo been arrested include Gerve, a technical expert of the Cartographical Institute, Joseph, secretary of the Official Hungarian National League, and a youth named Verhaftet. The chief of police, Nadossy, who has been placed on U'ial for complicity in the plot, admits his knowledge of tho plot. He pleads justification in the national interest. Ho says that tho first notes were passed in Belgium. All the arrested persons agree that tho plot wa3 in existence. Semester, Deputy-Leader, and Franzulain, Leader of the Hungarian Nationalists who fled to Italy, have been brought back. They said that Bethlen's Government must bo swept away, becauso of its intolerable action in arresting patriots. If this venture had been successful they would have been grovelling on their knees before the very men they had arrested. This statement, which has followed a denial of the statement that tho forgeries were connected with a Royalist plot, has caused a sensation. The diplomatic correspondent, of the Morning Post suggests that the forgeries were initiated by an international gang of forgers, who conceived the idea of implicating political factions in Hungary in ofdor to cover its own operations. , It is reported that Prince Windischgraetz* has m&do a statement in which he admits that he received notes of a faco valuo of 30,000,000 francs. Printing presses havo been found in his castle.