GIFT TO AMBASSADOR.
GESTURE BY HINDENBURG. AMITY WITH FRANCE DESIRED.
(Received' August 17, 8.45 p.m.) PARIS, August 17,
The President of Germany, Marshal Tod Hindenburg, has presented to the retiring French Ambassador at Berlin, M Bruno do Margerie, a sword which he took from a French officer in the war of 1870. The gift is regarded in Paris as a proof of Marshal Hindenburg's desire for a reconciliation with France.
M, Bruno Jacquin de Margerio has been French Ambassador to Germany since 1922, when he succeeded M. Laurents. He has been Minister to Siam and to China, and 'was Director of the Political and Commercial Department of the French Foreign Office when the war broke out in 1914. From 1919 to 1922 he was at Brussels.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20954, 18 August 1931, Page 9
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