MYSTERIOUS "BLACK BOOK"

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 244, 3 July 1918, Page 6

MYSTERIOUS "BLACK BOOK"

GKKAIANI DENIES BILLING CASE ASSERTIONS.

p - Amsterdam, July 1. Berlin papers deny the existence of the "Black Book" mentioned in the Billing ' tnse. They state they had not heard of it prfor to the case, and declare that 1 , Captain Sponoer did- not servo l'rinco i ' uliam of Wied or the Albanian Govi : ' ernment in any capacity.—K,enter. !'. Jin tho Allan-Billing libel case, Mrs. ; - ' iVilliers Stewart gave evidence regarding 1 a mysterious book which she stated had teen compiled by the German Secret Service, and was now in possession of tho (jornian authorities. She contained the names of forty-seven, thousand men and women in Britain, occupying i social, politioal, and financial positions, j ,vith a record of their alleged moral, sexual, or other weaknesses; likely to '} render them easy victims in intrigues designed to assist Germany. She said i. . she had handled the book in company i with the lato Captain the Hon. Neil | Primrose and Major Rothschild. The names of Mr. Justice Darling, Lord Hal- ; dane, and Mr.' and Mrs. Asquith appeared in tho book. Spencer, the writer of an article relating to the forty-seven 1 thousand names, gave evidence that he Was an aide-de-camp to Prince William i of TVied when the latter was King of Albania. l'rinco William of Wied snowr ed him tho book. He could not get tho Foreign Office to ventilate the fact ; that England was in Germany's hands, ' so ho went to Mr. Billing. Spencer admitted that tho doctors at Salonika had : locked him in n hut on the ground that j lie was suffering from hallucinations, but , he esoaped.J