Show Will Hun dun Agent Be e Freed w. w w. w w. w F ate of Broker int in Doubt t w. w Canada Has His Wealth Noted Prisoner Is Not Among Those Ordered Freed or Held en enemy my aliens inV interned in- in y 11 V at Ft Douglas are to tobe tobe be released and about thirty thirty- five to be deported there Is considerable speculation as to the fate of 01 Alvon von Alvensleben former fInancial agent of Bill I in fn Canada who was arrested in in the i Northwest I The statement is made by R. R M. M I Price of 01 the United States bureau of investigation that Erich Brandeis i former newspaper man of San Francisco Francisco Fran Fran- cisco will be released and this led to the interrogation as to whether he knew of the disposition of other cases While It is known to certain authorities authorities au- au as to who will be released there is nothing authentic dIsclosed rEgarding Alvensleben His case appears ap- ap pea pears s to be clouded in in mystery ry since lie he is not to De be among those nose w to ue De released re- re released leased or those to be deported I FINANCIAL WIZARD Alvensleben was consIdered to be bea bea a wizard of 01 In Vancouver B. B C. C where he rose from a walter waiter to toa toa a multimillionaire practically overnight over over- nIght With Canada entering the war he moved across thE ninth forty parr par e eStates and was arrested by United r States authorities at a beautiful home on the Puget sound from where he Is alleged to have been In touch with German agents throughout this con con- The ex kaisers business affairs in Canada have just been drastically wound up by the dominion govern govern- ment govern j Just prior to the war German imperial Imperial Im- Im agents were busy buildIng up I large commercial undertakIngs in the Canadian west With the war these enterprises went to pieces what the creditors did not snatch up has now been seized by the federal custodian Sir Thomas White LEADING BROKER leading investment brokEr was Alvo von Alvensleben For two years he was a leadIng Pacific Pa- Pa Pacific coast lieutenant for Von BernI Bernstorff Bern Bern- remaining on the American I side aide of the boundary When Uncle Sam Sam finally entered the conflict he was was seized and interned In Ft Douglas The best thing about Von Alvensleben's bens ben's operations for William Hohen- Hohen zo zollern tier n In B British rit r Columbia was the fact that he left ten millions of German German Ger- Ger man money behind him lie He bought a dozen tracts of 01 timber land on Vancouver Vancouver Van Van- couver Island and trod had paid three three- quarters of the purchase price of before August 1914 Since then the former owners forEclosed L VO VON ALVENSLEBEN AL A BEN who left a cool of coin in hands of Dominion authorities I I ft I I I I 9 I x I 4 v I for the unpaid balance bance and took possession pos pos- session of thE Ian lands cis Alvo was the impecunious son of I Count Werner Verner von AlvenslebEn at one onetime onetime time German ambassador to the tho court of the former czar of Russia Within seven years ears after first reaching America he was reputed to be a millionaire At the height of his career In 1912 his clients Included Hollweg Bethmann-Hollweg General von Mackensen Mackensen Mack Mack- ensen and Von Roon a descendant of the Prussian statesman who helped to wrest Alsace from France Francein In 1871 |