The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-12-28
Court Gossip on Subjects
of International Interest

which he boosted were the property OF
the Prussians he had slaughtered.
After a time Hon's superior officers be-
came suspicious, and one night they sent
a lieutenant to follow the sergeant. Hon
was seen TO march into the Prussian's
camp and chat with their officers. When
he returned to the French lines he was
taxed with being a spy. and when the
lieutenant produced evidence that he was
n traitor to his country, and in the en-
ploy OF the Prussians, an officer snatched
Hoffs revolver and shot him dead then
and there.
. The Russian war Office has spies all
over Europe, a goodly number being OF
the fair sex. The most notorious and
daring women spies. however. are at
tached to the Russian secret political po-
lice.
Zinaide Joutchenko. nee Gerngross, a
member of a well-to-do family at VII
tebsk, was a noted Russian police SPY.
This woman made her first appearance
as an agent provocateur' In 1894. when
she was twenty-three years Of age. In
the following year she betrayed the plot
of Raspoutine against Gar Nicholas II,
at the time of that Emperor's projected
journey to Moscow. Raspoutine and his
lTltllub HtEt dEEtSlths anu u dNGll Sun
picion in the minds of the revOlutionists
from Miss JOutchenko, the police. on her
instructions, also arrested her, and she
was kept in prison eleven months.
For years ''Zina" JoutchenkO sent her
comrades TO prison, TO the scaffold. and
to Siberia, while showing them the ut
most tenderness. In 1907 she elaborated
the plan of ReinbOt's execution in one OF
the theaters of Moscow and handed II
lutionary. At the time ReinbOt was pre-
fect Of Moscow, but before Frumkin
could shoot him at the theater she was
arrested. The unfortunate girl was sent
to the gallows in ignorance OF the fact
that Joutchenko had betrayed her to the
police.
The Kaiser and his Empress are now
in residence at the Neue PaIsis in Pots
dam, where they will remain until New
Years Eve Cthe historic German Syl-
vester nightD. when the Imperial pair
will go to Berlin where the Kaiser will
hold the usual New Years reception in
the "Weisse Saal" OF the ''Delte
SchIoss"
The autumnal court hunt CHetyjard)
at Letztingen was "A great success"
800 wild boars and 800 deer being
slaughtered in a single day.
Wonder what Frederick the Great, the
ancestor whom the Kaiser has taken for
his especial prototype and who abhOrred
the needless slaughter Of dumb animals,
would say to such dreadful carnage!
And il is not even a case OF genuine
sport and the pleasure OF the hunt that
eNcltes the hunter. for the POOR beasts
actually are driven by squad OF forest
ers almost under the mUzzle of the rifles
Of the ''Chasseurs," who simply pull the
trigger as the beasts are hurrying past
TO cover
Crown Prince Frederick Wilhelm. like
his imperial father. is also mighty
and is entertaining his annual
shooting parties this month at Oels. his
estate and forests in SiIesia
The SchlOss and its dependencies are
situated on the Oder River TO the south
Of Breslau, the capital OF the province
OF Silesia and often the center Of oper-
atoms during the famous seven years
war between Frederick the Great and
Empress Maria Theresa. Gels up to 1915
was tn" scat OF the Duke OF Braun
schweiG Oels. a principally belonging to
the Brunswick dynasty until absorbed by
Prussia FLANEUR,
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