GENERAL VON ARNIM

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25237, 28 May 1943, Page 2

GENERAL VON ARNIM

RELATIVES IN NEW ZEALAND iP.A.) BLENHEIM, May 27. It was stated in the cable news recently that General von Arnim, the Nazi commander captured in. Tunisia, is half-English, but it is not generally known that his mother was an Australian with near relatives in Marlborough and elsewhere in New Zealand. i While they feel no satisfaction In the relationship with' Hitler’s lost panzer expert, they have every reason to be proud of a notable literary association that -has also been brought to light by local inquiries. Von Arnim’s mother was Elizabeth Mary Beauchamp, the daughter of Henry Herran Beauchamp, of Sydney. She married Count von Arnim, and on his death, Earl Russell. She wrote “Elizabeth and Her German Garden,” and many other esteemed books. Brilliance in literature also appeared in Elizabeth Beauchamp’s first cousin, Cassie Beauchamp, known all over the English-speaking world as Katherine Mansfield.