THE ARREST OF COUNT ARNIM.

Globe, Volume II, Issue 152, 28 November 1874, Page 3

THE ARREST OF COUNT ARNIM.

The following telegrams have been published in the San Francisco papers:— London, October 5. The National Tress and Post of Berlin state that Count Von Arnirn was arrested on a charge of embezzling an important state paper. The Prussian Cross Gazette reports that four Berlin police, and two functionaries of the Foreign Office appeared last Sunday at Count Von Arnim's estate, Nassenhida, and demanded a number of letters signed by Bismarck and sent to Von Arnim while he was ambassador. The letters relate to the Count's private affairs, and were to be used as a basis for certain legal proceedings which their possessor has already instituted. The Count replied to the officers' summons, that the papers were not in his house; he refused to tell where they were, and declared he would not surrender them. The police made a loug and useless search of the premises, and then conducted the Count to Berlin, where he was lodged in the police station. The Count's residence in Berlin was also searched, but the papers were not found; only a private letter-book was seized. The Count's family have petitioned the Emperor for his release, on the ground that the Count's health is bad, and confinement is dangerous. Von ,Arnim is under arrest because he was about to publish a 'book (containing documents damaging to Prince Bismarck. London, October 6. It is reported on authority that the documents detained by Count Von Arnim are state property, and the Courts decided that there were sufficient grounds for instituting proceedings against the Count. Negotiations for their restoration had been carried on for several months, through Von Arnim's brother in-law, and after repeated warnings a few of the papers were returned, but the chief portion was not given up. The documents contain Prince Bismarck's unqualified approval of Von Arnim's conduct while ambassador to Paris, up to the time semi-official journals of Germany began to attack him as the leader of the reactionary and Ultramontane movement. London, October 8. The Standard's Berlin special says that, in consequence of domiciliaiy visits to the residence of friends of Von Arnim throughout the empire, they cannot communicite with him. It is reporter), says the despatch, that these events are connected with the forthcoming book, early sheets of which are already in circulation in Ultramontane circles in Munich and Vienna. It is now said that the missing documents number 100. PARIS, October 8. The Journal de Paris says that Count Von Arnim, when Ambassador in Paris, hastened the downfall of President Thiers, and urged Germany to recognise the Government of MacMahon immediately. Bismarck disapproved of this course, and wrote to the latter explaining the reason why he preferred the policy of Thiers to that of MacMahon. The Journal says these are the letters of Bismarck which are missing. Berlin, October 8, Count Von Arnim had an interview with his son and a Government official yesterday. In the course of the conversation the count protested against the insinuation that h" had published or intended to publish any of the documents retained by him. He asserted that there were no state secrets contained in the papers. He also said he noticed in the

Spring that there was a deficiency in the documents belonging to the archives of the Paris Embassy;

Berlin, October 9

The Gazette declares that Von Arnim's arrest is not connected with politics, but is simply a criminal procedure, with which neither the Foreign Office nor the Chancellor were concerned. It also says that copies are existing of all the documents required.