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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24TH, 1923.
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SOLE AGENTS.
A DIAMOND WITH A
HISTORY.
PRINCE JOACHIM. EX-KAISER'S YOUNGEST SON AS GERMAN SPY
The Italian Government has no inten levelled tion of purchasing the diamond which the Notwithstanding the gibes against the ex-Kaiser' sous during the Emp Zita wants to sell to them. war, it is evident from revelations nule says the Rome correspondent of The Chees enc Et claims the dinmond as forming by Major Russell that Prince Jonchigi,
part of the rich collection of jewels known the youngest son of Wilhelm courage the Treasure of Tuscany, which belonged
filled a role which at any time might to the Melici and was earring the Hea
off to Vienna have earned him an ignominis death!
in the eighteenth cath of
of Torraine after the
the These revelations are nel by Major Medicean Grand Duke in 1797. At the Bussel in connection with his acest of close of the war the Italian Government the
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thwarted
w in which the Secret, Servlet that the Treasu- of Tuscany |
mysterious attempts by rebugs
other jewels and art treasures the to destroy military docks and which Austrin had removed at different ulies at La Rochelle, Several attempts to times, from Italy should be restored, and, harn these docks had been unde prior to thanks to the mergete action of the July, 1018, but they were clumsy and the Italian Mission at Vienna, this was dere guilty ones had been promptly captured last year. Some of the most valuable ob
in the personal been, however, ATHE punishert. But then, says Atajor Bus Jets
had
of the Imperial jpasstwsjm|
who sell, we received a report from one of our
the assistant provost mahulsstationed at Lawere already in
illuminated clim awoke us to new dangers,"
From the library it Medoun, at the "For the past eight nights," on each famous Rible of Borso O'Este whith the night, we have discovered a fire on the ex-Emperor Charles sold in Paris, and by the patri By good fortune we have which was rehmight for gasglene box,
they atie Milane Commercaniat | them before been able to quench,
or
the cast of million lire. made a fair stars, unless tops her taken to capture the erotine has motifel ix, papryki Zita ex who are responsible, we are sure to have it intends to assert all its rights over the a fire that will seriusir cripple the entire diamond and the twe manuscripts still in American army by destroying at least 75 her possession, and it will at one take per cent, of our gasolene supply. String- steps should she attempt to sell any ef weighs one are enforce; we search every German hundred and forty carats, and is note prisoner before allowing him pase for its yellowish tinge, is said to be the through the gate any one found violating fourth largest diamond in the work, it this order is severely,panished; but still belonged to Charles the Bold. Dake of the fires continue."
Burgundy who lost it on the battlefeld in 1976. It was found by a peasant who
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At this place we had a prison com thought it glass and sold it to a priest for with over three thousand German prison- ers in it.
We felt convinced that the Germngti prie ers were in some way setting the fires. We finally decided to send three of our en to the front. They were to join the newly captured prisenes so that we could transfer them to our prison compound without their identity becoming known.
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flatin. After passing through various hand- it was sold by the Jesuits to the! Grand Duke Ferdinand of Tuscany in 1681 It is set in a circlet of ting diamonds in the shape of n make.
Many amusing criticisms were made by The Secret Service men detailed to this Mr. Frank Jours in n lectarr on The "to tenchers attending work were frented the same as the other; Spoken Language prisoners. In order that they might be the City of London Vacation Course in)
There were able to visit the various prison huts they Education on August. 7th.
standards of pronounciation- were assigned to the Sanitary Squad the three meanest and dirtiest job in the prison" Brummagen." standart English, and' affectation. He stressed the importance of lip movement, and said an English. man's lips were almost as flaccil as tripe."
camp
ENTER THE PRINCE.
Prince Joachim entered upon the stage at this point nailer the pseudonym of Freytag, who was supposed to be a Swiss Red Cross worker, sent to this compound at the request of the German Government to look after the welfare of their prisoners, The Secret Service men working on the ers had no suspicion at the time that Freytag was other than he seemed to be, Even after it became plain that he was a German spy the American officers, bad no inkling that he was a son of the the Poiguing
Kaiser Regarding the Prince's netivities
in the prison camp. Major Russell
declares
deving
ceeded
the proper credentials, he pro-
WORLD THEATRE
his real objective; he would give them “a l small bottle of the other avid which was stoppered with a small roll of paper; and when they were at work they would take off their blous al would throw them.
the docks. with the bottle in a pocket, behind some combustible unterial o acid in the bottle would eat through the the chemical- paper stepper, and reaching, ly prepared cloth it would basic into less supplies flame-and the chance of destroying
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ه السلام
to make himself universally like vast system of docks and endless
of gasolene and oil would be excellent, o by all who had anything to do with him. He was a modest, well mannered young Roth at night so that the fire might if the acid were time to reach pecially chap, anmistakably ing excellent
appeared, though buon peak get a good start before being diservered
English and The tipe
came when Freytag was allowed in the early stages of enn- suthption, and his colour locked hectic, by the deeter to go for a short walk, and, is we expreid, he took the first chates but he was quietly eficient and made 14. complaints about his health until an attack to get fresh supplies for aroa Mean of influenza put him in bed and served while we scereted several men in his gel. the Allied and American cause immeasurar, where were sure he would under. inke an investigation of the strength of ably
But for weeks no one suspected that the his purchases. Sure tough, when bo Swiss Red Cross"man, always working so
came in he went to the cellar, and taking ernestly for the prisoners, was any other than the philanthropist he appeared.
three men among the prisoners were industriously
ching
me old cloth and paper, proceeded to try out various combinations of the acids. After several hours experiorating, be war secured proper proportions and for clues, but they got hold of no then put the two acids together on a cloth." tangible till after the observed that In a few seconds the cloth was burning. Freytag in talking to a certain trio of pri. soners always got them out into the open and generally took them into the centre of the prison Compound.
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"SHOUT ME!"
Then the Siret Service men stepped out and arrested Freytag. The caine and faut munner in which he reacted to this expreary of his carefully inid plos nud to his capture leads Major Russell to ex claim:
At first be
He was a brave chap, that Germaŭ »¿y- Just up from a sick-bed, be had been work- ing for hours beyond his strength. but he showed no white feather. denied all charge, but when he heard what we knew, he took the other tick linuxsieks and wanted to know why any further pee
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Then one of our men reported that three of the prisoners were continually losing their blous They
wer the same three Freytag bail so frequently singled out. Nex: the same nan noted that the blouses were lost only after a chemical treatment, And now when he marked and reported further that the fire started only after one or more of these blouses had been lost →we know we were hot on the trail of our qua And then i anther it to can still another fire was our docks and perhaps the war. A stant
Take ure out and shoot me," he said. Changchan Hankow Manchouli Tientsin
Harbin Newchwang Urumtch of the wind in the enemy's favany might He was brought before me. It was my duty Chefoo
Yokohama Dairen eventually give the Germans the victory.
The to find out, if I could, who he was.
Hailar Just then it was that Freytag was taken manner of his confederates towards him down with influenza. His fire was in-
and his ow personal quality convinced us xtracted
go to prison camp and tell that he belonged in the higher ranks of
the the
prisoners sh
she was sent there as Frey- life. But I could
could get nothing out of him. tag's representative that he was ill and had asked her to look after their welfare We sat opprite each other, talking quietly while he was away.
She
gave special at enough, and nothing I could any appeared;
told to shake him in any way, tention to the three men who Freytag that as a comunen felon he would be hung had been so intimate with. Finally, one
day,
que of them said to her that he would He said he had a right the shot. But have to have gone more of both the acids who he was we could grant that right,.
replied that may be if we knew he that were used for the destruction of ver- still quietly refused us any information. min. He asked her to tell Herr Freytag toll him I recognised that he must withent that the last acid was not strong enough doubt belong to the officer das, but if it would not work quickly enough, and
we knew nothing about him he would have tell him to experiment and me
my~ if the
with change the ration should not be to bear the hard conditions imposed or
his common soldier confederates. Mary told Freytag of her conversation "Put me in with them," was his auswer.
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He was too mysterious and personally dangerous no that. I wish him to wait impressive to be speedily executed. For until I have recovered and can tell him the time being he was imprisoned under personally just what
When this wa
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proportions to the conditions of an officer. Soon extra deter ordinary German efforts to effect his ex- would experiment change proved we were right as to his lys with those dangers
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he secret service agents managed brought those two substane together, to seize certain plans of the German High You will blow yourself as if you don't Command through the unintentional inter look cout he exclaimed.Those two acids vention of the Prince-a feat which was
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