TWO HEARTS.
The .Providence Journal relates how several plots in America Tailed through characteristic German stupidity. One of these concerned a young girl stenographer on his staff who entangled von Papon, the German naval attache. The girl got employment in the office uf Dr. Heinrich Albert, (ho Austrian Con-sul-General in New York, where (hero 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 eat her lunch. The unsuspecting von Pa pen struck up a flirtation with her, ami invited himself to share in the sandwiches. Before long ho was talking sentimental twaddle, and the girl encouraged him by taking a red lead pencil out of her hair, and coyly drawing two big red hearts on the top of the packing ease. You 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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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1756, 6 September 1917, Page 1
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185TWO HEARTS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1756, 6 September 1917, Page 1
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