ARRESTS MADE IN PARIS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 484, 13 October 1928, Page 9

ARRESTS MADE IN PARIS

NAVAL COMPROMISE SCANDAL A WOMAN IN THE CASE (Australian and N.Z. Press Association J (United Service) Reed. noon. PARIS, Friday. In connection with the Horan affair, “Le Journal” reports the arrest of a man of high social position, who had previously assisted the secret police. Other allusions are made to a person having relations with high-placed persons of the Foreign Office, also having held a position in America. It is understood that among the names which Horan supplied to the police is a woman’s. “Le Matin” says one of the suspects has fully confessed. “Excelsior” alleges that Mr. Horan Paid ;£ 2,000 for the incriminating document. The Paris correspondent of the Morning Post” says the police detained and questioned two Frenchmen, said to be Government officials, shorn Mr. Harold Horan named in his statement on Monday. It is believed that he also named a French journalist as his intermediary in connection with his disclosure and dispatch to the Hearst papers in America of a document relating to the Anglo-French naval compromise. The correspondent says it is believed that the statement signed by Mr. Horan at the police prefecture on Monday showed that he took a much more prominent part in securing the document than had heretofore been supposed. wheat crop record.—The London "Evening Standard" says the certainty of world-record wheat crops is now practically assured. There is no longer anvthing likely to upset estimates, which for Canada are •>58,000,000 bushels and for Australia Probably 195,000,000 to 212,000,000 bushels. It only remains for the Argentine crop to be definitely assured ior there to be a huge world’s surplus. —A. and M.Z.-P.A.