THE "BLOND LADY."

Taranaki Daily News, 21 February 1920, Page 9

THE "BLOND LADY."

More details about the life of the "blond-haired lady" have been given by a colonel in the French counter-espion-age service who knew her well. This coioncl, Who was then a captain, spent some months during the war at Antwerp, and saw most of the people who visited the lady, for it was his duty to supply these traitors with false information, or with true information when too late for use. The chateau, which the witnesses at Lille stated to be outside Antwerp, was in reality in the centre of th.i city. It was a hotel in the Boulevard de la Loi, a majestic building which those who were brought to it, blindfolded in a motor-car with drawn blinds, might well have taken for a chateau in the country-side. The blond-haired lady was certainly a relative of General von Hcinrich, though the exact relationship still remains uncertain; She was a fine woman, bnnigf slim and unlike the majority of her fellow-countrywomen. The Frail Doktor, as she was addressed by her colleagues, spoke French without a trace of a foreign 'accent, and showed by her manner and dress that she had lived for a long time in France, and probably in Paris. She used to address her "tools" with a French cigarette between her lips, leaning back seductively in a large armchair. She never spoke harshly but, 011 the contrary, in sweet, even tones, no doubt gaining much which her male confederates of the German General Staff lost through their air .of brutality. Two men lived in the "chateau" with her, a man who passed as an English fop with a monocle and as a journalist 011 a London paper, and an officer of tho German G.11.Q. Tho fop, the French colonel states, was the proprietor of a hotel in the same Boulevard de la Loi, and the German oflicer, Keller by name, had as his first duty the control of information upon our submarine bases at Calais and Dunkirk, and the numbers and changes in the movement of our armies in the North of France. The blond-hair-ed lady, besides using part of her time in beguiling poor unfortunates into betraying their countrymen, collated her information before forwarding it to G«Trwnv.