A ROMANCE OF THE WAR.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 38, 14 February 1871, Page 2

A ROMANCE OF THE WAR.

Discovery op the telegraphic communication WITH PARIS — A HANDSOME YOUNG TRAITRESS "WITH COUNT BISI MARCK. The German newspapers thus relate the manner in which the last and secret communications of Paris with the south and north of France were cut off. The search after these mysterious wires had given a great deal of trouble to the Prussians, without leading to any result. It happened, however, that during this time the Count von Bismarck, General von Moltke and the Crown Prince of Prussia each received several letters in a feminine handwriting, begging of them to set at libertv the husband of the lady author of this correspondence, and who was kept prisoner by the French at Montereau. In exchange for this she promised to reveal to them an important secret. As ofFers of this kind, and a great many others analagous to it, were made to the above-named personages by hundreds every day, they took no account of the letters we have just referred to Butou the morning of the 28th of Sept. the visit was announced to Count Bismarck of a young lady, who urgently j requested permission to speak to him. He ordered her to come in. She then explained to the count that the letters addressed to him were in her handwriting; that her husband, a Jew, and a Hungarian by birth, Joseph Lauzer by name, had, as a naturalized Frenchman, been employed in the general management of railways at Paris in the capacity of engineer, and that before the investment of the capital he hnd been specially employed in constructing the underground telegraph between Paris and Tours, as well as that between Paris and Rouen. After having completed his undertaking lie had been sent to Montreau, in order to superintend the service and to make some repairs there, and he had received from Gen. Trochu a letter apparently containing recommendations to tbe authorities of that town. But when he arrived there it was announced to him that in consequence of his German origin (he was born in Presburg) the authorities was going to place him under surveillance for some time. A few days afterwards the mayor gave him to j understand that three mines bad been constructed along the line of railway near Montereau, with the view of blowing up the. Prussian troops if they arrived by train, and that he must connect i the mines one with the other by an electric j battery. "My husband," continued the

lady, "refused to do do that, pointing out that, his mission was to superintend the wires and not to lav down new ones. Thereupon he was ill-treated, cast, into prison, aud, no doubt, is now- in danger of d-arlu" After the lady had sufficiently proved her identity, Count Bismarck had a conversation with Baron von Moltke, and three hours later, a small expedition, consisting of a squadron of hussars, set out for Montereau, and the most extraordinary precautions were taken. In the evening the troops arrived in lhe town, which was astonished at the occurrence. The mayor, who was still more astonished, was arrested, and the Hungariau engineer was liberated from his prison. The mines already referred to were discovered and destroyed, . and, under the direction of Lauzer, the Prussians likewise found in the Seine, in four different directions, the mysterious telegraphic communication with the capital.