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Show The Law and the Diplomat. Diplomats are Immune from arrest by the authorities of the countries to which they are accredited, but their own police can get after them. The late Baron von Kiderlen-W'aechter dls- ' covered this to his cost. In 1S92, when on a leave from Copenhagen , where he had recently been appointed German minister, the baron fought a I duel wilh a Berlin editor and wounded i him severely. For this offense he had ' to stand his trial, and was sentenced to three months' imprisonment In tlu military fortress of Ehrenbrekstein Christian IX, with wliurn the jovia baron was a great favorite, raised ur objeetion to the appointment of i charge d'artaires to watch over the diplomatic interests of Germany dur ing the interval, and the prisoner 01 a being released from Ehrenbreitsteii 1 returned to his duties. a |