European Topics.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6438, 7 January 1889, Page 3

European Topics.

EXTRAORDINARY ' CHARGES AGAINST AN AMBASSADOR. RELEASE OF PROFESSOR GEFFCHEN. [Special to Peess AssociiTioNiJ ' BERLIN, Jam. «.'" The Cologne Gazette having pub. lished an article to the effect that Sir ■ Robert B. D. Morier, the present British Ambassador at St Petersburg, •when Secretary of Legation to the : Kingdom of Wurtemberg, during: the Franco-Prussian -war, betrayed the ; movements of the German army to the French, Sir R. Morier wrote to Count Herbert Bismarck indignantly : denyingthe statement, and characterising it as an infamous libel. He also requested the German Foreign Minister to order that a contradiction! shonld be published in the official organs. Count Herbert Bismarck declined to accede to this request, whereupon Sir R. Morier published the correspondence. The Cologk* Gazette published another article, in which it declares that the information was given by the late Marshal Bazaine to a military attache* at Madrid. 10ND0N, Jah. 4. The Times, in the course of an; article on the accusation, says it m! part of a system of persecution which. j is being directed against all who were nearest and dearest to the late Emperor Frederick. PABIB. Jut. 8. The election for the department of the Seine, which takes place on Jan. '■ 27, is causing the greatest exitement in Paris. The Bonapartists and ; Loyalists support the nomination of , General Boulanger. HEIiGRADB. Jai. 5. The Servian Ministry has resigned. BEBUCN, J«. 5. Professor Geffchen, who was charged with the publication of the late Emperor's Diary, has been released from custody, and the proceedings against him abandoned. „