Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-04

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much trouble, was due to sail day
later, January eth.
So 1 went to the
legation and told my troubles to
the Kings Messenger.
Don't worry" he said. "I just
received orders to go North tonight,
am leaving on a British torpedo
boat, and will be back in London
before Christmas. When 1 touch
land, 1 will get the Baroness on the
long distance, and if you don't
grudge the expense, 1 will get the
information you are after from her
own lips"
The courier did even better.
While waiting at Copenhagen to re-
turn to London, he received a thirty
page letter from the Baroness, dated
Berlin December 1st, which detailed
| the news l was so anxious to pro-
cure.
According to plan, the courier
read Madame Won Larisch's state
ment over several times, committing
It TO memorN for his memory is
simply phenominal. So, when his
minister of Foreign Affairs ordered
him to show the contents of his
mail pouch before departing for
London, he cheerfully handed over
the Larisch documents, as all papers
not strictly appertaining to govern
ment business were taboo.
Before embarking for England,
the courier called up the house near
the Puppenbrucke, Berlin, where
the Baroness had a fat The man
ager of the apartment house
answered the call: Il am sorry to.
announce, he said, that her Lady
ship is no more. Like so many
other good people belonging to the
court and society, she was killed a
few days ago during the lombard
ment of the Royal Stable buildings
and the neighborhood of the
Schloss."
FURTHER details are missing, but
the courier, upon his arrival in
London. detailed the contents of
baroness Won Larischs last letter
to me, and knowing her copy as
do 1t sounded to me as if he were
voicing her very own words. mime
is phonograph memory" said the
courier promptly.
1t seems scarcely necessary to in
sist mat the Baroness Larisch's
Memoirs of the Kaiser's Court con-
tain all and everything of non-poli-
tical, but personal moment, Since
these Memoirs We're first pubIisbed
several other books dealing with the
Kaiser have seen the light. Most
or them were based on the discIos-
ures previously made and published
by the Baroness. I might almost
say all of them, with the excention
of the books dealing chiefly with
politics published by the former
American Ambassador in Berlin and
by the Kaiser's doctor.
That fact was frankly recog-
nized by one English publisher. at
least, who offered to give me credit
Tor the, chapters, stories and Incl
dents boldly taken from my three
Volumes-if there was a second edi-
tion of the printed book. But there
was none, for obvious reasons
The latest book on the Ex-Kais
er's secret life, just published bv
Grant Richards, London, makes the
usual liberal raids on nv literarv
property, but for originality's sake.
1 presume, exploits in addition soma
OF the Countess Wedell's Unbalanced
vaporings of twenty or more wears
ago.
Mr.. Richards anonymous author
-he has every reason for wishing to
pe naIneless = assumes that the
Countess Wedell was not only the
~~aiSSA ihiothC COS Out somebody.
Let me quote Baroness Iarisch
re this person:
This Countess Wedell," she told
me. was ballet girl at the Impe-
rial Opera House like her mother be-
fore her. The mother became a
chance mistress of the Kaiser's
grandfather. William I, and the
present Countess Wedell claims to
have been the offspring of tbair
temporary liaison. Despite this
fact, she sought to ensnare William.
when a young prince.
"She succeeded, according to her
own uncorroborated story. Tt hap
pened, I understand, in the Raiser's
student days when, according to his
Court Marshall. he never had twenty
marks in his pocket, and when ali
his disbursements were made bv the
Court MarshalPs office. If there had
been an attachment, longer than
momentary. between the two grand
children of the frs. William. the