NEARST ‘GRAND CRIMINAL’

Taranaki Daily News, 11 October 1928, Page 9

NEARST ‘GRAND CRIMINAL’

LEAKAGE OF INFORMATION SYMPATHY FELT FOR HORAN GENEVA FRENCHMAN’S ACT By Telegraph—Press Assn —Copyright. Australian Press Association. London, Oct. 9. There is considerable sympathy in Paris with Horan, the correspondent of the Hearst Press, who is to be expelled for publishing the terms of the AngloFrench naval agreement, says the Paris correspondent of the Morning Post. Hearst is regarded as the grand criminal of the piece. It is generally believed that he obtained the document at Geneva, and his conduct is even less excusable when it is realised that, on his return from Geneva, he was welcomed officially as an honoured guest, also that, at the very moment- of dining with M. Berthelot at the Quai diOrsay he had in his pocket a document from M. Berthelot’s department, to which he had no moral right, and which he intended to use to the detriment of France. In other quarters it is stated that the documents bore the impression of the “French section of the League of Nations.” Therefore it is held it was not the property of the French Foreign Office, but of the League. It is stated that it had been handed to Mr. Hearst at a private luncheon party by a high official of the Quai d’Orsay who, it is believed, was hostile to the idea of the naval pact.