The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-12
DON ALFONSO GOING
BACK TO PORTUGAL

gate in some way the penalty by viz
tue of his sovereign prerogatlve.
Charged with betraying, as q Russian
subject military secrets OF me nation
ito foreign power, the point upon
which the Imperial government iaia
the greatest stress was that he mao
communicated TO the military attacne
OF the Austrian embassy on inc BANKS
of the Neya, report presented by the
National Committee for Defense 70 the
Douma. Now this report was so little
secret that over 500 copies thefeol
were printed, each member OF the
Douma, which comprises some very
bitter adversaries OF the government.
receiving copy.
The baron, with the knowledge and
consent of the Russian government
was the representative in 81. Peters
burg of the principal Austrian press
association, an association which mas
an official connection with the Aus
trian government, from which It draws
a subveution. AS Russian representa-
tiYes of this Austrian association, the
baron was naturally in daily inter-
course with the Austrian embassy at
ST Petersburg. and made point or
communicating to them all the news
which he was sending to the press
lussociation at Vienna; news which
often, on account of the Muscoylte
press laws could not be published IN
any of the st. Petersburg newspapers,
| In fact the baron Kept the Austrian
/ Elm DdSSy DUSttu. us " HiioI HSNo
/ on in general news way, and also
! communicated TO it documents which
| come under his notice In the ORDINARY
course of business, such as pfihleu
matter analogous to the congress,iGi u q
and department reports&a Washing
| ton For this he was allowed GER
tain annual salary By the Austrian
! embassy of which fact he never mace
/ any secret. This places him, there-
| fore, in q very different class to the
ordinary traitor who purloins official
! secrets, or obtains them by brlbes, in
order to sell them to a foreign power,
| and there is general feeling, both IN
Russia and abroad, that while
/ ton, yet that he has not been guilty
| of any dishonorable conduct or or
!! felony, and that under the circum-
Istances the sentence to lhard labor IN
| the mines Of Siberia is unduly Sc
we're.
OF course, it would have been wiser
! for him to have severed his cohnec-
ton with the Niennese news agencg
and with the Austrian embassy at the
time when the relations between Rus
| STA and Austria. became so very straln-
| ed couple of years ago IN cohnec-
ton with Serva and Bosnia-HerZe-
l goyina But he is man with nc
4 fortune. is dependent upon his saiars
/ for living, and simply could not al
ford to sacrifice his only source oil
/ income.
/ Baron ERNEST Won HOHSeili-oteih potF
lis member of one of the oldest houses
Of the Lithuanian nobility, received
i his education at Reval, and served fo'
d time as an officer OF the wilma l'r =. !,
COON Regiment. Forced to reslgn ~
Il commission on account of ilnancla
u trouble he came to this country, drltt
ed to Mexico, and then made his way
to France, where he Joined the tor
eign Legion, from which he wa!
eventually discharged. He then mad
his way to SPAIN where he under
went many vicissitudes. and tinall.
} turned UP at Algeciras at the TIM
subject of Morocco as correspondent
Of the London Express. The acqualn
, tances which he formed there prove
very useful to him in the establish
lment of newspaper connections ah'
after( brief stay at Vienna, he pro
ceeded to st, Petersburg as the dul.
accredited correspondent of the Aus
D. trian-neWs agency, and OF the semi
/ lonicial yiennese Fromdenblatt,
His family claim to descend ~ !,
j, direct line from one Of the three king
who visited Bethlehem at the tim
Of tho birth of Christ, and who ar
, known in Scripture as the ,'Three WIS
Men of the EAST According TO ira
dition, the names of those three MAG
We're Melchior, Gaspard and Baltha
Ear. Gaspard Is alleged to be the an
cestor of the Ungern- SternberGs IN
French nobM family of De Vogue boast
: Of an unbroken descent from Melchlol
!, while another Trench house namely
{ the De BeauX Of provence. sno n,, :,
4 genealogical tree at the rool OIL WHie
+ is Balthazar.
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