HOW SECRET LEAKED OUT

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 485, 15 October 1928, Page 9

HOW SECRET LEAKED OUT

ACCOMPLICES OF HEARST AGENT NAMED HAROLD HORAN IN LONDON (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) PARIS, Saturday. The French Government has disclosed the names of those implicated in the publication of the text of the Franco-British naval compromise. They are:— Roger Deiphangue, a young journalist employed on the staff of the newspaper “Intransigeant,” and M. Denoblet, aged 32, an official at present attached to the Press section of the Foreign Office. It is said that proceedings are to be taken against Mr. Harold Horan, the Paris representative of the Hearst Press, and the others under an old law relating to secret documents and the security of the State. “Le Matin” says a French journalist visited the Press Department of the Foreign Office while the chief official was away on holiday. He saw a young deputy official and discussed the naval compromise with him. The visitor said he wished to contradict false rumours. The official then allowed him to see the document for his own guidance. The visitor took the document to Horan, who had it copied. A message from London says that Horan, who transmitted to the Hearst Press in America the text of the document, arrived there to-day. He refused to be interviewed. It is understood that he intends to go to New York by the Leviathan. JOURNALIST DISMISSED HEARST DEMONSTRATES HIS INDEPENDENCE (Australian and N.Z. Press AssociationJ (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) Reed. 12.45 p.m. PARIS, Sunday. As the outcome of Horan’s exclusion from the Anglo-American Press Association, Mr. W. R. Hearst has ordered his other representatives to resign. A journalist on the staff of the newspaper “Intransigeant” has been dismissed from the paper, for the part he is alleged to have played in the publication of the document.