BLONDE INTRIGUER

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 804, 26 October 1929, Page 9

BLONDE INTRIGUER

DRAMATIC VISIT PAID TO LONDON SCOTLAND YARD INTERESTED (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) j Australian and N.2J. Press Association j Reed. 9.5 a.m. LONDON, Friday-. j The beautiful blonde who is concerned in the disappearance of the i secret code from the Italian j Embassy at Berlin, has just paid j a dramatic visit to London, says j the “Daily Chronicle.” She is a \ native of Jugoslavia. She arrived in Berlin in the early j spring, rented a luxurious fiat, and be- i came acquainted with one of the secre- j taries of the Italian Embassy-. It was soon evident that he was paying marked attention to her. She several times visited him in his room, in which was a safe containing the code, which later was found missing. Suddenly the secretary disappeared. He was recalled to Rome secretly, and was tried and exiled on an island whence he is unable to communicate with his relations or friends. In the meantime, the Italian Government, wishing to avoid publicity, did not complain to the Berlin police; but it had the fair Jugoslavian watched. Something must have aroused her suspicions, for she went to Paris in August. Thence, again fearing that Italian secret agents w-ould have a revenge, she hurriedly went to London, arriving on Wednesday, accompanied by a tall, dark man, her own companion.

They occupied a suite at an hotel, and within a few hours a Scotland Yard man visited them. What transpired is not known, but the blonde settled the bill and the little party caught the Dieppe boat train from Victoria Station. The Berlin correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” reported on Thursday two great Powers and one lesser one obtained copies of the secret cipher stolen from the Italian Embassyin Berlin. Subsequently the representatives of two of the Powers concerned were intensely annoyed to find that each had paid an exorbitant price for the same secret. This led to the exposure. The correspondent says Britain was not one of the Powers in question. “Interest is still displayed,” said the correspondent, “in regard to the blonde society beauty upon whom suspicion rests. It is said that this woman spoke several languages fluently. She displayed an obvious preference for the society of diplomatists, and the head of one diplomatic mission w-arned his staff against her.”