COUNTESS OF WARWICK'S STRATEGY.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 106, 28 January 1908, Page 8

COUNTESS OF WARWICK'S STRATEGY.

"The Countess of Warwick, travelling as Mrs. Greville, was on board the Cuhard liner Campania (says tho New York correspondent of tho. "Daily Telegraph") on her way to attend to property interests .in Virginia. Wireless, messages from -her American lawyer, Mr. Jefferson Levy, had apprised the Countess that her identity was known, and that Pressmen would probably put to sea to board the vessol and interview her. They did, some 50 strong, but despite a diligent soarch found no Countess on board. The captain had kindly placed a special room at her . ladyship's disposal, and this room she held as an. impregnable fortress against all comcrs. I steamed down New ork Bay. oil board the Campania, and on arriving at tho landing stage found tho American Press photographers' brigade, tho heavy artillery sections drawn up in attack formation, big, heavy cameras on trestles unlimbcred, and loiig-distanco lenses focussed on the gangway to snapshot the. peeress 'as she came off.' Photographic sharpshooters, with hand cameras, had boarded the vessel, with a battalion of intorviowers, and skirmished up and down the CuHarder, hunting madly, hut unsuccessfully, for their quarry. While all hands, were engaged in watching the ship's gangway, and the stream.of passengers was disembarking, the elusive Countess, with her secretary and maid, took a boat 011 the other side of the ship, and rowed to another landing stage, where Mr. Levy's automobile was in readiness, and in this Lady Warwick wits to a private hotel. Once again America s most famous newspaper corps was foiled by a woman."