TREBITSCH LINCOLN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 24 July 1929, Page 10

TREBITSCH LINCOLN.

FORMER FORGER AND SPY SEEKS TO BECOME BUDDHIST MONK COLOMBO. 15th July. Trebitseh Lincoln, former British M.P.. and convicted forger, travelling under his own name with a Chineso passport, arrived hero to-day in tlio German steamer Trier from Shanghai, en route to Munich. He was permitted by the police to land at Colombo/but was not allowed ashore at Hong Kong and Shanghai. Lincoln says that he is travelling to Europe, where ho hopes to meet Dr. George Grimm, the well-known Buddhist worker, and engage in Buddhist propaganda in Western Europe. Ho described the life story articles published in a London Sunday paper as "pure fiction," and the story of the offer to him ,of £500,000. by the* ex-Kaiser for the reestablishment of the. Hohenzollerh dynae-1 ty in Germany' as "a "deliberate lie." tor the last four years ho has had nothing to do with politics, his full time being occupied with Buddhist propaganda. He hopes to return to Ceylon if possible as a British subject and become, a monk. (Lincoln, who is a Hungarian, won a seat in the House of Commons. In 1916 h<\ was convicted of forgery and sent to gaol for three years. Early in 1926 a son, : who was a bombardier in the Royal Horse Artillery, was executed in England, for the murder of a commercial tiayelleu.: ; Two years ago Lincoln was heard of from Ceylon, where as Dr. Leo. Tandler, he was an inmate of a Buddhist monastery). (