THE GERMAN OFFICER'S PHOTOGRAPHIC BABY.
Major Blumenthal, an officer of the German Landwehr, has, on the suspicion of being a spy, been ordered to leave Prance within forty-eight hours. Suspicions were aroused, says the Paris correspondent of the Daily News, by his taking, under the assumed name of Baron de Jilly, a chalet near Conflaus. not far from Paris, A lady, who was supposed to have taken a part of the chalet from him, turned out to be a German military cadet. They both used to go wandering about with a perambulator. What seemed to be a sleeping baby was in reality a large doll that hid a photographic apparatus for taking views of the new forts aud the positions commanding them. They were also enthusiastic pigeon fanciers, but some of their birds were trapped by suspicious neighbours and found to be carriers.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2608, 30 March 1889, Page 2 (Supplement)
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143THE GERMAN OFFICER'S PHOTOGRAPHIC BABY. Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2608, 30 March 1889, Page 2 (Supplement)
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