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Show PIMT GERMAN 15 SENTTO PRISM Military Authorities Resent Pertinent Criticisms of Imperial Methods. ! BERNE, Fe.b. 17. Advices received from Berlin indicate that the well-known German diplomatist. Baron von Eckard- cerated in the convict prison there by the military authorities for his criticism of the imperial methods. The baron in private conversation severely se-verely assailed various phases of German Ger-man policy, namely, the submarine tactics tac-tics and the deportation of the Bel-gians. Bel-gians. . Eckardsteln whs first secretary to the German, embassy in London for many years. At the outbreak of the war he was a member of many English clubs, among- them the Marlborough, Garrick, j Beefsteak and Cowes Royal Yacht club. I He also owned an estate near Shanklin, Isle of Wigtit. I lie was a remarkably handsome man, and married, in the daughter of the I late Sir John Blundell Maple, head of the great furniture firm. King Edward, then Prince of Wales, attended at-tended the weddinj? anrl presented a Jew-i Jew-i eied watch to the brine. I Unfortunately, the marriage was not a ' happy one. It was said later that Sir ' John opposed t he marriage, and that he afterward paid the baron's debts, amounting amount-ing to Jl, 2.V,O00. In 1907 the baroness obtained a separation, separa-tion, a nd in 1900 she secured a Gernmn divorce decree. In Aujnist of the following follow-ing year she married Captain (now Major) Ma-jor) Archibald Weigall. who later became and still is M. P. fur the Horncastle divi- , sion of Lincolnshire. j |