BANK NOTE FORGERIES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19687, 14 January 1926, Page 9

BANK NOTE FORGERIES

AMAZING POLITICAL CONSPIRACY. AIMED AT FRANCE. (Press Asso-station —By Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, January 13. (Received Jan. 13, at 5.5 p.m.) The Daily Chronicle’s Budapest correspondent says the confessions of Windisgraetz and Nadossy show an amazing political conspiracy behind the bank note forgeries. Windisgraetz says he is guilty in the eyes of the” law, but not in the eyes of history, because the deeds were in the interest of reconquering Greater Hungary. He adds: “Pitt was not guilty in the eyes of English public opinion when he flooded Europe with false French notes. My object was to destroy France, which forced upon Hungary the peace of Trianon.” Nadossy says: ‘‘A patriotic deed was necessary- to undermine the French franc.”—A. and N.Z. Cable. FURTHER ARRESTS UNLIKELY. TRIAL IN SIX WEEKS. LONDON, January 13. (Received Jan. 13, at 7.15 p.m.) Information ftom Budapest indicates that it is unlikely that there will be further arrests in connection with the note forgeries, in spite of the fact that French detectives have presented a list of 46 additional persons whom they consider should be in custody. The Daily Telegraph says the Hungarian Government is endeavouring to circumscribe the enquiry in order to prevent the names of higher persons than most of those arrested, being brought into the affairThe trial is expected to begin in six weeks’ time Police activities at present are confined jp discovering the number of notes printed, which is variously estimated at between 20,000 and 50,000. —A. and N.Zf Cable.