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MGR. GERLACH'S ROLE.

HOODWINKING THE POPE.

OF

A SOCIAL REVOLUTION.

ENGLISH GIRLS ON A BANK STOOL,

[RY BAROLD BEGHIE.]

Mars whispered to Vemus, pointing to a Bank stool," Your opportunity." And thus came a social revolution in English life.

JEST

The full text of the verdict in the recent espionage trial would seem to show that the part played by Mgr. Gerlach in the story is less important than had been commonly rumoured, though the trial

The Bank in other lands admitted: will always be associated with his name.

women long-ngo: Ints in England from its The available evidence at least went to foundation, the Bank has been a preserve indicate that his main function was that of the mule. And, mark you. of th of paymaster to some of those who were gentlemanly male. The Bank counts working for German money and that hescially in suburban circles. It's a part' served when necessary as a channel for of our Respectabilities. not very important information. He was

Miss invaded this close preserve of the not in any sense the head of the espionage spectable male. war providing the oppor organization. It is not thought that he unity, from all classes and for two has the intelligenze necessary for such a

FeEsons. She wanted. in one ease, to befp Dost

the country; in naother, to elimb socially. Rudolph Gerlach, von Gerlact

Hore she sacrificed freedom: there she (apparently he had no right to the prefix skedaddled gratefully from the cask desk which he used), comes of a Bavarian of a shop. She entered the Bank as a no family and was born in Baden 32 years lady inflamed by patriotis, and ago. His fivsi profession was the Army, Business girl anxious to better herself. but his career as an officer lasted only The higher the motive the worse the clerk. a few years. The story goes that he found The shop-girl who wants to better herself life rich in irresistible emptations, and makes a painstaking Bank clerk; the fine that he very nearly. weut round the lady, warmed up by patriotism, is an corner * altogether. In any event, hearithifical anxiety, at times a distract- I find that Management is left the Army for the Church, and cunte ing nuimace. to Rome to study at the Accademia dei critical. In praises the best of its women Nobili Ecclesiastici. He finished his clerks with some fervour. They are mors studies in the summer of 1914, but was conscientious than men. They are admir still at the Accademia when Cardinal able But the dependable and briffinut della Chiesa caine Rome for the Miss is hard to find. They give me her Conclave that ended in his election to actuarial value is in froth one-half to the Papal chair. The Cardinal had him two-thirds of the average male fork. self studied at the Accademia, and had Thus does Management weigh all the often stayed there on his visits to Rome, charms and magic of Beauty in those He did so on this occasion, and made the aboreisable brass scales on the "Bank coun- acquaintance of Gerlach with the result two-thirds of a wan! that when he was installed-a's the Vatican he appointed the exofficer. Cameriere segreto participante "- und Keeper of the Wardrobe,

·A·LÇERATIVE POST.

CEPIE IN THE BANK.

Ronance las, nevertheless, crept into the Bank with the girl who posts the incon- venient, figures of your overdraft in the It isn't that she brings flowers Tales sprang up quickly of the influence ger exercised over the Pope by the younger her desk male lerks with subarrbau prelate, and these tales commanded a wider gardens have ferociously competed against credence when Gerlach rentaised at the other in this particular for gearrn Vatican after Italy's entry into the Wartier. And it went that she uses poetic It was very well known that Gerlach sent on her handkerchief or brings the had been in close touch with the various distencing flick of petticoats into a trousered sanctuary. It is simply because German agents whose duty it was mature will not permit a sentimental man presch neutrality to Catholic circles into bus daily in the near neighbourhood of Rone. The chif of these were Baron a charming young girl without saying to Cruz Stockhummer, formerly Councillor himself, Good heavens, I find this little at the Prussian Legation to the Holy person unusually disturbing. And you See Herr Erzberger the leader of tho know the role of such n reflection. It German Centre Party, and Mgr. leads to the Registry Office.. Baumgarten. During the period of Cupid in the Bank is not so buel, how Italian neutrality, Mgr. Baumgarten had, ever, as the Devil among Tailors been the representative in Italy of Herr. The average Bank clerk is not senti Erzberger's organization for propaganda ziental; Romances are rare. Miss does in Catholic circles. As things were courenter the Bank one morning rosier then. ing to head Herr Erzberger came to us, and drawing off her glove, with n Rome, and the Hotel de Russie,, where he noticeable self-consciousness, docs lament stayed was the scene of many an auxious ably fail to hide a ring of astonishing consultation. The German intrigues came brilliancy on the confessing finger of her to nothing. Italy declared war against left hand. But such events are rare-too Austria and bruke aftreintions with rare in my judgment

Bulow, Mahlberg. Stück To tell the truth, the average bank clerk being rigidly conservative, and just now protagonists packed their trunks and crisis in the Bank

there Felderly,

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esant the companionship of the ladies. They mourn over the Bank's loss of dignity Ladies of any kind are bar In point of fact, he took over Mg enough, but girls from the cash box of a hatcher's shop Life will never be the. Baumgarter's work. He supplied pro same again. Moreover, during a rush. paganda and paid for its publication. Ia when work begins at 8 or 9 a.m. and does particular he subsidized two newspapers not end till 10.30 or 11 p.m. it is a of little importante La Vittoria, psychological fact that roguish eyes recently founded Roman daily which irritate Homeo, and blushing cheeks drive never had an independent existence and Cuthbert furious. It would seen that man was read by very few people and with a quill behind his ear is immune from Bastone, a weekly paper which was Venas hörself..

But while the average Miss is not very supposed to represent clerical interests. The funds supplied to him for propa- brilliant and not very accurate, and while gauda work were ample, and it was, no she suffers a good deal from headache, and doubt, understood that he should retain a sometimes stays away at the most incon- handsome proportion for his personal venient seasons, still, or the whole, sho needs. Previous to his appointment as is bravely trying to mister Bank business. paymaster he had been notably impecuni. She surrenders to monotony. She puts her ous, but he last no time in changing his youth and playfulness to the grindstone mode of life. He refurnished his apart of Business. It's a dull life and a nerve- ment, according to his ideas of luxury, trying life, but she sticks to it, and we He bought a Lancia motor for £800. He could not get on without her. In your invested in industrial shares and Treasury

she is paid beggarly Bouds to the amount of £5,000. Its

certain that he made much more money than he was worth.

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To suborn the Press was his chief task. but he also acted as a channel for munication to and from the Headquarters of the German espionage organization för Italy, which had been established in Switzerland under the direction of Baron

No one thinks that Miss, however excel- lent, will ever rise to the auriferous alti- tudes of fuauce; but they say she is slowly. learning to take permanent possession of For it is not thought likely that men will its lower slopes. And a good thing, too. return easily to a Bank stool after the War.

Stockhammer. It is not quite clear to might be involved. Stockhammer wag what extent he served to transmit news, evidently careless with his pepers, or or what means he employed. The verdic at least not sufficiently careful to outwit

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his own private means of communication.evidence. Letters addressed to him were and rejects the suggestion that he was found-the verdict naturally does not pay allowed the Eve use of the Vatican bow--which sufficiently proved the guilt diplomatic posting. How he conveyed of Pomarici, Valente, Gerlach, Ambro- his information is not stated in the ver-getti, and the two newspaper men, Garcea

was plainly established by the evidence. the plot lay clear, and little by little He was one of the channels for the the details were filled in... Valente proved information sent. Stockhammer by useful witness, for he ended by making Archita Vallente, the secret service men a clean breast of all his doings, and who began by working for both sides, thereby, no doubt, saved his skin. but eventually came under the suspicion Ambrogetti also, though reticent on some of the Italian authorities. At first, that points, furnished useful corroborative, is to say From November, 1915, to Murd, evidence. 1910, Valente used to travel backwards | A REFLECTION ON THE VATICAN, and forwards between Italy and Switzer- Pomarici and Valente were really the land and supplement his conversations chief villians of the story whose last with his employers by messages in chapter has just been written. Gerlach the agony columns of the Giornale was less culpable than the other. For dini. No doubt he realized that they betrayed their country to the enemy his journeys might give rise to suspicion, for money; he could claim that if he be for in February, 1910, during his third trayed his Church it was for his country, visit to Switzerland. he asked Baron and that if he took money it was only Stockhammer to suggest a means of ex a just remuneration for his patriotic changing letters. According to Valente, services. He betrayed his Church. It Stockhammer indicated that he might try | was known in Vatican circles long before and make use of ecclesiastics residing the crash came, but the Pope would not in Italy. Valente then hinted Gerlach bear a word against the man he had and his instrumant Ainhrogetti (they chosen for a post in his household. were evidently already in touch) and Attempts were made to warn him, but Stockhammer agreed that it might be they had no result. It was only when he worth while trying this channel, Short was shown the evidence that he was con- ly after this the Italian Legation at Berne vinced. and the Military Intelligence Depart Though the verdict of the Court ex- ment reported Valente's meetings with pressly acquits the Vatican of any con Stockhammer and with Pomarici, the nivance of Gerlach's activities, the blow former correspondent of La Vittoria to the Vatican is very severe. No doubt in Berlin, who was Valente's opposite the Pops was attempting to vindicate a number in Switzerland. Pomarici and principle, as well as following a personal Valente were marked down as suspect, but inclination, in not sending Gerlach away they were "given" suficient rope to hang when Italy went to war. He chose his not only themselves, but many others who ground badly, and his mistake recoils Continued at foot of next Column.) "pon the Church of which he had been

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