A GERMAN AGENT
Viscount Bertie of Thames lately divided tho House of Lords on a proposal that the Government should re* voko tho permission given to.the Ger. man Captain yon Rintelen ■ to. live in England. His suggestion was opposed by; the Government and was defea-ted 'tyj 29 to 15 Captain yon Rintelen, formerly in the German • Admiralty, recently wrote a book in which he related tho story, told to him by Admiral Sir Eeginald Hall, wartime Chief of the Admiralty Intelligence Service, how Count yon Spec's squadron was lured to destruction off the Falkland Islands by means of a bogus cablegram. Viscoiint Bertie recalled that Captain yon Eintelen was sentenced to' four years' imprisonment in America during the Avar for planting bombs' in ships carrying munitions for the Allies.. "It gives offence," said Lord Bertie, "to somo of. those who lost sons in tho war that such a person should be allowed to reside here.'.'. The Earl of Lucan, replying for the: Government, said that Captain yon Rintelen came to England in 1926. The Home Secretary, had no reason to believe,that his presence was detrimental to' British interests, and he wpuld not feel justified in terminating his stay. If the Home Secretary was satisfied that Captain vcni Rintelen's continued, presence was not conducive to the public good he would not hesitate to. use h.is powers of deportation.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 33, 8 August 1933, Page 10
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