TRIBITCH LINCOLN AGAIN

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 308, 24 September 1919, Page 7

TRIBITCH LINCOLN AGAIN

A VISITOR TO AJIEKO-\'GE.\'. London, September: ±>: . Tho .notorious Tribiich' Lincoln, who .was at one time a member of the House of Commons, ami who was deported from Knglaud last August, visited Anierongeu •uccompiuiiedby.a Gorman who is believed to be n monarchist agent. Lincoln had several conferences nt the ex-Kaiser's castle, and returned to Berlin on Satur-' djiy.-HKeuler; • fl'arson, British' i1.1'., censor in the British service,--spy, and forger, Lincoln has had a sufficiently varied career. A Hungarian' Jew. 'by birth, he became i> convert;. was a Presbyterian minister in Canada and Inter a deacon of the Anglican Church in Montreal. Coming to England in 1901, lie, obtained the curacy of Applcdore, in Kent, it was after he had been a curate and, a philanthropist's secretary that he became an M.P. His fir-it. knowledge of British' secrets wus obtained when he entered the 'employment'of Mr. Keobohm liowntree, and was set. to work to gather material for a' book on the economic conditions in European, countries. Mis plan lo do so was to find out important, navivl and military secrets and betray them h> Germany, and he aimed at hiring the British fleet, into.the Norlh Sea and to have the German Heel, within easy hitling distance. His plotting failed, and he went, lo Rotterdam to work out the scheme by code which was to inform the Germans' of tho British, nav.al positions. 'Jiini'/'Vs- book was published shortlj after, 's sensational escape from custody while having a meal in a New York restaurant. It caused a great deal ot indignation against the writer, who wa 5 recaptured eventually and sent back to. London. Lincoln was charged with having forged a guarantee purporting to be n'irned by llr. h'owntree, and with obtaining in all .fiiWO by false pretences. Tl was on this charge that he was sent to. prison for three years. His term o f imprisonment, over, the Home Secretary cancelled his naturalisation papers and ordered him tu bo deported.]