SPY AS GOVERNOR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 203, 4 February 1915, Page 6

SPY AS GOVERNOR.

GERMAN PREPARATIONS. Count von der Schulenburg, who has been appointed Governor of Luttich, otherwise Liege, will be sorely missed in more than one locality in the southeastern zone. | London has long been the finisliing \ school for German "diplomacy," thus we find the noble count breeding bulldogs near Harwich as a n immediate mental tonic before his appointment to the administration of Belgium's im- ; mortal province on the Mouse. Von der Sehulenburg's life in the south-east of England stands out as the life of a most dangerous type bred in the Fatherland—one of the moneyed noblemen of a certain assimilated international culture, passing to and fro in our nik'sfj, enjoying distinguished friendships, and indulging in expensive | hobbies to shield the more sinister roai so n of his presence on this side of the I North Sea. f The count—a man of forty—bears a j name famous in Hanover where he i owns vast estates. Nevertheless, five for six years ago—in May. 1009, to be [ exact—this lord of the Sehloss comes i over to England on no mission other I than to settle down here as an English | squire. Credit for the showing up of SclmlI en burg is primarily due to Messrs Langfier, the photographers, who on the j Liege appointment being published on [ Tuesday, remembered the new governor had been photographed at the Hotel Cecil. From here Schulenburg was traced to a flat in Jcrmyn street, where he lived for several months—months probably spent in picking up the threads of espionage among the German colony, which, before the war, haunted a score or more restaurants or Bierhalle, in the West End of London. The count was erratic in his movements, frequently dig- . appearing for days on end. ' About two years ago Schulenburg felt unable to resist the call of Kent's failfields, and, shaking the dust of Jerinyu street from his heels, proceeded to settle down on Borough Green—as a poultry fancier. Borough t'roen is a quiet [ village, situated ten miles west of Maidstone, and within easy reach of Chatham Dockyard. His grim work done i n this particular zone, von Schulenburg returned to town and took up his quarters in Gloucester street, Pimlico. This would be about the summer of 1913, and he now blossomed forth as a breeder of bulldogs : "He had to go on that account," the landlord informed our representative. "Often he would bring as many as five :or six dogs into the house—he had thirty 1 altogether, and knew nothing at all about them." "For his bull-dog stud' the count chose the old-world seclusion at a Suffolk leimlot. Henley-on-Debeii, not far from Harwich harbor.!" The Governor of Liege would bring his dogs to and from town i n a Sto" ewer motor-ar—which he stored with a well-known firm before the outbreak of war. Often, instead of bulldogs, he would motor fashionably-gowned ladies up to Gloucester street] On leaving his flat here, lie ,r aV e as his address Ysabidlenstrasse "s' Munich. In point of fact, he is believed to have stayed o„ at Henley until a few I days before the outbreak of war. Now, instead of the eternal Iron Cross for services rendered, he lias received' a Governorship (temporary). Thus does the Kaiser reward the super-soy (Daily Mail). ' '"