SECRET STATE LETTERS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 855, 26 December 1929, Page 2

SECRET STATE LETTERS

BEAUTY HOLDS THEM TO

RANSOM

Piquant revelations concerning in old political sensation, in which tin ex-Kaiser, a British Cabinet Miiustk and a one-time chorus girl were ■“ volved, are made in a book just Jttlished by John Long—" Secrets of » Solicitor.”

The Cabinet Minister was the bb Lord Tweedmouth, First Lord of tie Admiralty and a friend of the Riiiet They corresponded, and the KdMt wrote a fussy, interfering letter (vluel became public) about British iiw* policy. Lord Tweedmouth’s name was cleerw at the time in a debate in the fiotw of Lords and now, 20 years after*!®, the story is told in full. Lord Tweedmouth did not, 0:1 m own initiative, answer the KsiMf* letters, but showed each to the C**’ inet, under whose guidance he '*roh non-committal replies. . „ , The author of “Secrets of * Ho®* tor” says:— “As the correspondence dealt an* highly confidential matters outside t» usual range of diplomacy there *** many good reasons why it should w kept secret. “As Cabinet Ministers ars pled**to secrecy, it was hoped that MW Tweedmouth’s tact would lie able h nullify the Kaiser’s breach of go® manners in attempting to eiiibama the Ministers of a friendly nation "And all would have been well d" for an act of forgetfulness on of a certain polftician when atom tete-a-tete with a beautiful and noto ous woman. . . . . .. “It was to her that the pohticne worried and harassed by slacdew* rumours, went, and it was in ** drawing room that he left a inostev fidential document which revealed' detail the whole of the Kaiser-T***j mouth correspondence and the Government’s resolutions relating it. . I “The loss was discovered the®®j day, but not early enough to P l ** ‘ Mrs. Sands (in whose Mayfair rum**"; the document had been left) e® ering the treasure and realism* value. “Women of her type usually on a volcano of debt, and they sider themselves fortunate if they n* only one crisis to deal with at a 1 It was so with the beautiful Sands. ... ... *bo “It was a friend of the politician treated with Mrs. Sands wished to sell the document politician wished to recover it to publicity).” . jor According to the book her surrender of the papers was * > but it suggests that she was paw siderably less. Mr. Edward Malt by. who has eo “Secrets of a Solicitor,” says is not a statement which is not authenticated.”