THE FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 9254, 7 January 1889, Page 5

THE FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR.

SERIOUS ACCUSATION. CHARGE AGAINST A BRITISH DIPLOMATIST. Pms oiatAesoion.—Electric Telegraph,—Copyright. Beklin, January 4. The Cologne Gazette having published an article to the effect that Sir R. Morier, at present British Ambassador at St. Petersburg, had, when Secretary of the British Legation to the Kingdom of Wurtemburg, and during the FrancoPrussian war, betrayed the movements of the German army to the French, Sir R. Morier wrote to Count Herbert Bismarck indignantly denying the statement, and characterising it as an infamous libel. He also requested the German Foreign Minister to order that his contradiction of the statement be published in the official organs. To this request Count Herbert Bismarck declined to accede, whereupon Sir R. Morier published the correspondence. The Cologne Gazette published another article wherein it declares that its former statement is correct, and that the information was given by the late Marshal Bazaine to the German military attache at Madrid. London, January 4. The Timee, in the course of an article on the accusation of the Cologne Gazette, says the attack on Sir R. Morier is part of a system of persecution which is being directed against all who were nearest and dearest to the late Emperor Frederick.