NAVAL COMPROMISE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20076, 13 October 1928, Page 13

NAVAL COMPROMISE.

SURVEY OF NEGOTIATIONS. FULL DOCUMENTS PROMISED. PUBLICATION IN BRITAIN. (Received October 12, 5.5 p.m.) British Wireless. LONDON, Oct. 11. Documents that will shortly bo published by tho Foreign Office regarding tho AngloFrench proposals for tho limitation of naval armaments will constitute a comprehensive survey, not only of tho actual negotiations between Britain and France in tho past summer, but of the antecedent events and circumstauces that led up to the negotiations. Tho reasons that determined tho attiiudo of tho British Government on particular points will bo explained, and a general review of (ho whole question at issuo will be presented. HOEAN GIVES NAMES. ACTION BY PARIS POLICE. TWO FRENCHMEN DETAINED. Australian and N.Z. Press Association. (Received October 12. 10.45 p.m.) LONDON. Oct. 12. Tho Paris correspondent of the Morning Post says tho police detained and questioned two Frenchmen, said to be Government officials, whom Mr. Harold Horan named in his statement on Monday. It is believed that ho also named a French journalist as his intermediary in connection with his disclosuro and despatch to tho Hearst papers in America of a document relating to the Anglo-French naval compromise.

Tho correspondent says it is believed that the statement signed by Mr. Horan at the police prefecture on Monday showed that ho took a much more prominent part in securing tho document than had heretofore been supposed.

ARRIVAL AT BRUSSELS. FLIGHT ACROSS FRONTIER. DISAPPROVAL OF ACTIONS. iustralinn Press Association —United Service (Received Octobor 32, 5.5 p.m.) PARIS. Oct. 11. The Anglo-American Press Association is dissatisfied with Mr. Hornn's explanation of his action in connection with the acquisition of the document relating to tho naval compromise, and has decidod to expel him. The committee says it considers Mr. Horan on several occasions acted in a manner contrary to professional dignity. Tho police on going to Mr. Horan's residence to ascertain why he had not attended the renewed inquiry this morning, found ho had departed to a then unknown destination. They ordered tho frontiers to be watched. It was later learned that ho had arrived at Brussels, and was going to England. A message from Brussels says Mr. Horan on his arrival there complainod that lie was arrested in Paris like any Criminal, and says ho will not return to Paris.