HEARST IN DISFAVOUR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20074, 11 October 1928, Page 11

HEARST IN DISFAVOUR.

FRENCH DOCUMENT USED.

NAVAL COMPROMISE TEXT. A BREACH OF HOSPITALITY. Australian and N.Z. Press Association. LONDON. Oct. 9. Tlio Paris correspondent, of tlio Morning Post says there is considerable sympathy in tho French capital with Mr. Harold Koran, chief Paris correspondent of the Universal International News Services, who has been ordered to leave Franco because of his despatch to the Hearst papers in America of tho text of (lie Anglo-French naval compromise. Mr. W. Randolph Hearst, he says, is regarded as tho "grand criminal of the piece." It is generally believed that Mr. Hearst obtained the document at Geneva. His conduct in causing its contents to be telegraphed to his papers is regarded as tho moro inexcusable seeing that on his return to Paris from Geneva he was welcomed oflicially by tho French Government as an honoured guest. It is also stated that at tho very moment Mr. Hearst was dining with M. Berthelot at tho Quai D'Orsay, ho had in his pocket this document from his host's department, to which he had no moral right and which he intended to use to tho detriment of France. In other quarters it is stated that the document bore tho imprint: "French section of the League of Nations." Therefore it was not the property of the French Foreign Office, but of the League. The document is said to have beon handed to Mr. Hearst at a private luncheon party, by a high official of the Quai D'Orsay, who is believed to be hostile to tho idea of a naval pact.