IN BERNSTORFF’S SUITE.
? 81-lITISH SEIZE £5200 FROM .-‘L _ COUNTESS. Lord Sterndale, President of we Prize Court, condemned as prize a, sum of 24,000 marks (nominally £I2OO and about £4OOO in dollars, which amounts were taken from the f‘ount.=,-ss Ella Matuschka, the wife of a Ger. man count, who was travelling on the steamship Frederick VIII_ as one of the suite of Count Bernstorff, the for. mer German Ambassador at Washing. ton. when he was returning to Ger. many under safe conduct arranged by the United States Govern nent. It had been pointed out by the Swiss Logation on behalf of the Countess, that she had’ made the iourney to America to wind up the estate of her late father, Mr. Walker, .f .-'7nta.l-io, and was returning with part of the proceeds. . ——-——————--- _.
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Taihape Daily Times, 24 July 1919, Page 7
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131IN BERNSTORFF’S SUITE. Taihape Daily Times, 24 July 1919, Page 7
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