A GENTLEMAN OF GERMANY.

NZ Truth, Issue 606, 27 January 1917, Page 4

A GENTLEMAN OF GERMANY.

I liavo boon told tho very pathetic story of n daughter of n» English M.P. (says !i writer In tho "Sunday Chronlelo). This poor Klrl, prior to the war. wna i>nKa«od to tho scion of a Gorman titled family, who had been upending somo two y«ars m this country, undor tho pretence of studying certain aapoets of our economic methods. On thc\ ftvo of war the Baron, who wart lust heard of on tho Hast Coaat, whither lu> had been on a holiday trip, vanUhwl mysteriously, and it would now apponr that lie ha* blo»aom«d Into v Major m tho )ntclll(;6nco Department of tho Great Genoral StafT. Thoro .xeemn no room at all for any doubt but that his chief concern m this country was political and military Hpylnjr. Mud tlu'io been any mich doubt, a recom letter from thia "Gentleman of Germany" would nuttko to dliipel It, l-'or. wriiinsr m reply m tho nnxkniu IrijuirleH made by »i neutral— v common nctjunlntanco of hi* and hl» ihrncue. at Lho lattor'n request, ho expre«3ed himself as full of contempt and lorUhlnt,- for "jjorndloua Kntfland" and the "stupid Miss" with whose Afror-ti<->n,s he had played m ord^r t« Kaln » ml w through thl« iifumriatinfi to Uu> J.lKher political and MlUciul rirvAvu m Britain.