TWO HEARTS.
The “Providence Journal ’ relates how several plots in America failed through characteristic German stupidity. One of these concerned a young girl stenographer on his staff who entangled von Papen, the German naval attache. The girl got employment in the office of Dr Heinrich Albert, the Austrian Consul-General in New York, where there was a box containing- important papers for Germany. One day the girl, in the course' of her watch, sat down on the precious box and began to each her lunch. The unsuspecti ing von Papen struck up a flirtation with I her, and invited himself to share in the sandwiches. Before long he was talking sentimental twaddle, and the girl encouraged him by taking a red lead pencil out of her flair, and coyly drawing two bigred hearts on the top of the. packing case. Von Papen himself drew the arrow through them. The box was shipped and duly arrived at Falmouth. The British authorities had been warned about the box with the two hearts and the arrow, and they had no difficulty in picking it out of hundreds of others.
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Western Star, 26 October 1917, Page 4
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