SERIOUS CHARGE
ACCUSATION AGAINST A BRITISH DIPLOMAT IST.
(ltY ELECTING telegraph.—copyright), Uliilin*, January 4. The Cologne Gazette published an article to the effect that Sir E Morier, at present British Ambassador at St. Petersburg, had, when Secretary of the British Legation to Wurtemburg, during the Franco-Prussian war, betrayed tho movements of the German army to the French. Sir 11. Morier wrote to Count Herbert Bismarck indignantly denying the statement, aud characterising it as an infamous libel. He also requested the German Foreign Minister to order that his contradiction of the statement be published in the official organs.
Count Herbert Bismarck declined to accede, whereupon Sir 11. Morier published the correspondence. The Cologne Gazette published another article, wherein it declares that tho information was given by the la to Marshal Bazaine to the German military attache at Madrid London, January 4
The Times says the attack on Sir JR. Morier is part of a system of persecution which is being directed against all who were nearest and dearest to the hue Emperor Frederick.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2573, 8 January 1889, Page 2
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172SERIOUS CHARGE Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2573, 8 January 1889, Page 2
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