Sir Robert Morier's letter to Count Herbert Bismarck, enclosing Marshal
Bazaine's denial that he had ever attri- buted his information as to the crossing of the Moselle by the German Army in 1870, to a telegram of Mr. Morier's (then representing England at Darmstadt), was published yesterday, together with Count Herbert Bismarck's brusque reply remarking that neither "the contents" nor "the tone" of Sir R. Morier's letter justified him in making any exception to his usual practice of abstaining from interference with the German Press. In the same day's papers, the German authority for the scandal is given at length. This is Major von Deines, Military Attache at Madrid, who declared that in 1886 Marshal Bazaine told him that his first information as to the crossing of the Moselle by the German troops was obtained from a telegram of Mr. Morier's sent from Darmstadt. This statement is repeated by Major von Deines from Vienna in 1888, and he then stated that there was a witness to Marshal Bazaine's first story in Prince Louis Solms, who was present at the interview. But in the statement it is said that the tele- gram of Mr. Morier came to Bazaine ri,"; London ; it is not said that Mr. Morier sent it to Bazaine. Marshal Bazaine, how- ever, in his letter of last August to Sir Robert Morier, simply and positively denies that he ever made such a state- ment to any human being, 61' that there is any truth in it.
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