Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-04-09

On the following day after my ar
rival at Stockholm 1 reported to Count
Bcrnstorff, who. having been informed
OF Rautenfels's methods. was in n state
Of considerable apprehension at my
coming. He told me that he was won
derfuliy relieved when l explained tc
him that l was not the precursor of
consignments of bombs to him in
Stockholm.
Il am delighted at your prudence.
dear countess" he said heartily. II
am quite anxious to collaborate in any
reasonable way. but l could not risk
such schemes as those OF Rautenfels
sooner or later he will ruin himself
and poor Michahelles az we'll"
The wisdom of that remark was
quickly justified; for within short
time a consignment of over 200 bombs
was discovered. Rautenfels involved
Michahellcs in his own ruin and our
proud German empire was forced to
apologize humbly to the insignificant
little kingdom OF Norway.
But 1 had to be on my guard when
dealing with Count Bernstorff The
count was no stranger to me. had in
the past. my experiences with him
quite few OF which were unpleasant
The count Is an energetic man, and
although he has reputation Of mover
having told lie. 1 sincerely believe
that he has acquired this reputation
only through his not being caught in
telling one. Although the count is a
thoroughly patriotic German, yet I am
always conscious Of his English birth.
He was, az we'll known, born in Lon
don, In our embassy. For. that reason
he is sometimes suspected OF English
kultur. Before the war my people in
the service had regarded him as a
weak man with an English education.
Igr,x II a.
lish faint in him. SO far as his kultur
is concerned. But like the Englander
he IS often a trickster he is so un-
reliable in his dealings with his fellow
members in the service.
RELATES INTERESTING
EGYPTIAN EXPERIENCE
Let me relate one incident which
took place under our joint assignment
during those days when he was the
representative OF the Fatherland in
Egypt.
In those days we were busy organic
ing the Egyptian Nationalist party
against England. We were then con-
trolling no less than fifty Arabic news
papers. which is the language of the
natives mostly. We had one native
Egyptian whose mother was an Eng
lishwoman. Socially. so far as the
white population Of Cairo was con-
was good native journalist. and he
wrote with power and fire against
the British rule in Egypt. He was our
head editor. and through him we con-
trolled almost all the native news
papers. Now the count can write and
talk Oriental languages Huently. He
was writing special articles on why
England should be made to leave
Egypt at cnce. and our Eurasian
friend was printing them in all his
native newspapers as his own. This
was very we'll, and more than once
he received the appreciation Of the
Foreign Intelligence Department at
Berlin for his successful activities in
, behalf of the Fatherland In Egypt.
But one day Count Bernstorn made
terrible mistake. and our EurasIan
became angry and informed the Eng
lish. or course. as you might guess
there was terrible scandal in cur
diplomatic service. AS the result of
1t. the count was about to be recalled
when he reported TO the Foreign Of
flee that l was responsible for the
as to tell our Foreign Office that it
was through my various love intrigues
that the Eurasian had become angry.
and to get even with me he had be-
trayed US to the English. Our For
eign Office accepted this, and / was
ostentatiously expelled from Egypt
which satisfied the idiotic English. OF
course, I had no way Of explaining to
the Foreign Office that the fault was
not mine, but his. This is only one