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Show W BERNSTDRFF TO SAIL OIIDISBAY Host of Personal Friends Call to Say Farewell to Former Ambassador. WASHINGTON, Feb. 12. Count and Countess von Bernstorff said farewell to a .host of personal friends made during their eight years' residence In Washington. Washing-ton. All day there was a stream of callers at the embassy and late this afternoon a number of intimate friends were entertained enter-tained at tea. The former ambassador, his wife and the embassy staff will leave Washington for New York late tomorrow night to sail for home Wednesday on the Danish liner Frederick VIII. All but last-minute packing has been completed at the embassy and trunks are piled high in many of the rooms. The file rooms, in which offirlal papers are kept, have been put in order, and everything every-thing is in readiness for the Swiss minister, min-ister, who has taken over Germany's Interests In-terests in this country, to assume charge. Count von Bernstorff completed today one special task he had set for himself. In his library there is a large hardwood cabinet cab-inet in which were filed awav personal letters, papers and copies of official notes, an accumulation of eight years. Visitors , during the day found the former ambassador ambassa-dor sitting in front of the big fireplace there with stacks of letters before him, glancing over them one by one and destroying de-stroying most of them, but placing a very few aside. If the expression that crossed and recrossed his face was any indication of liis thoughts, the task was not one which he relished. Tomorrow, the former ambassador's last dav in Washington, will be occupied by more farewells and probably a part of the forenoon will be spent in a moving picture theater. Both Count von Bernstorff and his wife are especially fond of the movies and even during the busy days since he was handed his passports he has found opportunity op-portunity to spend an hour or two a day watching a play on the screen. |