Horan's Admission of Instructions to Subordinate Paris, Oct. 17.
An official communique issued by the Foreign Office—in reply to alleged misleading declarations by Mr. Harold: Horan, of the Universal News Service, and'the multi-millionaire "newspaper proprietor, Mr. William Randolph Hearst—says that fon the 8th instant, in a signed admission at the Prefecture of Polise, Horan said that he charged M. de la Planque to obtain the text of the Franco-Brtih "Naval Compromise, mising him a reward, which de la Planque expected would be 10,000 francs, M. de la Planque obtained two documents from an official in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Harold Horan handed them to William Randolph Hearst, at the same time informing him how they had been obtained. Mr. Hearst instructed Horan to (telegraph ove of the documents to America and to give instructions that it was to be printed in a Trominent manner. Harold Hora alo asked the Prefecture for clemency for himself and an assurtance that his revelation would nat. be used in the punishment of the persons te had denounced.
These conditions were observed until Harold Horan made a request for publication of the essential terms of his deposition.
The Minister for Foreign Affairs, M. Briand, has intimated that the papers in the ease will be handed to the judicial authorities Reuter.
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