BERNSTORFF ARRIVES IN NORWAY.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume IV, Issue 962, 12 March 1917, Page 7

BERNSTORFF ARRIVES IN NORWAY.

ACCOMPANIED BY PARTY OF TWO HUNDRED. VESSEL THOROUGHLY SEARCHED BY BRITISH NAVY. 'Renter's Telegrams. (Received March 12, 9 a.m.) LONDON, March 11. Count von Bernstorff lias arrived at Christiania. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received March 12, 9.25 a.m.) CHRISTIANIA, March 11. Count von Bernstorff is accompanied by 200 Germans. There were some Russians among the passengers on the Frederick : VIII., hut there was no discord. American journalists accompanied Count von Bernstorff, who refused to he interviewed. British warships overhauled and thoroughly examined the ship. The naval searchers treated the Germans with consideration. NEVER HEARD OF THE MEXICO PLOT. NEWS COMES AS A GREAT SURPRISE. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received March 12, 9.25 a.m.) t COPENHAGEN, March 11. Count von Bernstorff, interviewed by the "National Tidende," said that the news of the plot to invite Mexico to join in the war was absolutely new to him. The first he had heard of it was on his arrival at Christiania.