SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST AN ENGLISH ATTACHE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1838, 8 January 1889, Page 1

SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST AN ENGLISH ATTACHE.

Berlin, January 4. The Cologne Gazette having published an article to the effect that Sir R. Morier, at present British Ambassador at St. 'Petersburg, bad when Secretary to the British Legation at Wurtemburg, during the Franco-Prussian war, betrayed the movements of the German army to the French, Sir R. Morier wrote to Count Herbert Bismarck, indignantly denying the statement, and characterising it as an infamous libel. He also requested the German Foreign Minister to order that a contradiction of the statement be published in the official organs. To this request Count Herbert Bismarck declined to accede, whereupon Sir R, Morier published the correspondence. The Cologne Gazette has published another article, wherein it declares that the former statement was correct, and that the information was given by the late Marshal Bazaine to a German military attache at Madrid. London, January 4. The Times, in the course of an article on the accusation of the Cologne Gazette against {Sir R. Morier, says the attack on him is part of a system of persecution which is being directed against all who were nearest and dearest to the late fimperor Frederick.