NAVAL COMPROMISE

Southland Times, Issue 20615, 13 October 1928, Page 7

NAVAL COMPROMISE

PUBLICATION OF DOCUMENTS. A COMPREHENSIVE SURVEY. Rugby, October 11. The documents that will shortly be published by the Foreign Office regarding the Anglo-French proposals for the limitation of naval armaments will constitute a comprehensive survey, not only of the actual negotiations between Britain and France during the past summer, but of antecedent events. The circumstances leading up to the negotiations and the reasons that determined the attitude of the British Government on particular points will be explained and a general review of the whole question at issue will be presented.—British Official Wireless. ARRESTED LIKE A CRIMINAL. (Rec. 5.5 p.m.) Brussels, October 11. Mr Horan complains that he was arrested in Paris like any criminal. He refuses to return. —Australian Press Association— United Service. DISSATISFACTION WITH HORAN. Paris, October 11. The Anglo-American Press Association is dissatisfied with Mr Horan’s explanation and has decided to expel him. The committee considers that Mr Horan on several occasions acted contrary to professional dignity. The jfcjlice on going to Mr Horan’s residence to ascertain why he did not attend the renewed inquiry in the morning found he had departed for an unknowfti destination. They ordered the frontiers to be w'atcbed. Later they learned he had arrived in Brussels and was leaving for England.—Australian Press Association. FRENCH OFFICIALS QUESTIONED. (Rec. 5.5 pan.) London, October 12. The Morning Post states that the Paris police detained and questioned two Frenchmen, said to be Government officials, whom Mr Hogan, named in a statement on Monday. It is believed also that he named a French journalist as an intermediary.—Australian Press Association. HORAN’S COMPLICITY’. (Rec. 7.45 p.m.) London, October 12. The Paris correspondent of the Morning Poet says it believed that a statement signed by Mr Horan at the Prefecture on Monday showed that he took a much more prominent part Sn securing the document than hitherto supposed.—Australian Press Association.