The evening world. Newspaper, January 3, 1922, Page 18

18 ————_—__—_ he Madic The Trial, Wajor Massard, Who Escorted | Her to the Shooting Post, Tells | the Incidents of the Beauty’s Defiance of Her Judges. Trapped With German Funds, She Contended to the Last That the Remittance Was a t ‘ Lover’s Gift from Von Kroon. By Ferdinand Tuohy. (Late British Intelligence Corps.) Certain revelations are perhaps bet~ ter left unrevealed. The revelation~ made by Major Massard, late French General Staff, and bearing upon the culpability of Mata-Hari, the Dutch dancer shot by the French as a spy in 1917, may be said to belong to the above category. They leave one with an uneasy feel- tng that a terrible error of justice may just possibly “have been committed. Whey certainly utterly fall short of ‘their set purpose, namely, to convey \) to us that, four years after, a French guthor has no right to stage @ play in *)Paris based on the tragedy of Mata- ) of Mile. Cora Laparceric, !s prob- ; a fairly true picture of Mata- “‘Hari's fight for life. We seo again the seductive prisoner admitting great frailty but denying she ever spied, we eee her aged lawyer hopelessly in love ‘with his client and in floods of tears ‘qt the verdict * * * and wo see a Swwoman's astounding courage at the it of death. And we proceed to pathise with her, forgetting she have cent thousands of poilus to deaths (as it is claimed Mata- did), but just bearing in mind t she is a woman, {n dire stress— The notion of wholly seductive. dead orming her into cold, is repellant. The sympathy thus shown (and of people, by certain of the critics) | ded Major Massard, who led Hari to the shooting post, to up an dbrand the latter as a vile ‘preature undeserving any human ‘eompassion,. The ‘were al- 4 ly doing enough and dra- ‘Vmmatic propaganda roid Mata-Harl | ro a view to besmirching the fair of France! It only required a ch actress to put Mata on the @ pedestal as Nurse Cavell! An to all this humbug and misplaced ‘ timent! So Major Massard girded fon his pen. A Chui paw officer who written ‘severa] standard books ton the hidden side of the war, there ean be no doubt but that the Major knows what he is writing of. ~One wishes’ Major Mass had méver set out to prove Mata-Hari yy of a terrible crime against the Hes—unless he told us all. Allow- for the fact that he may not have able to relate all of the tnforma- which fell into French hands and hich went to pore the culpability Mata-Hari in the eyes of her }Audges, Major Massard himself lays ‘on “the decisive proof”—name- upon that part of the evidence ' i of to Mi whith, wo must presume, caused the "3. Judges to sentence the ner to death, And what is this ? he ‘decisive proof” of Mata-Har!'s ‘® we are assured, reposed in the Fact that she went to the Dutch Le- "gation in Paris and as", A. 82" drew Sd @um of 15,000 francs which had been forwarded there by the Chief of © Wee German Intelligence in Amster- ‘ ta.-Hart ‘Madrid, where she had had relations with the local German Intelligence “officer, von Kroon, and it had been at the latter's request, cabled to Amsterdam, that the money had been “forthcoming to Mata-Hari in Paris. Mata-Hari had previously refused to ‘accept jewelry from von Kroon in ‘payment for her services, which lut~ ‘ter, she insisted, were concerned with ‘Venus and not at all Watt perhaps if we proceed jor Mas- gard’s own narrative the reader. will best able to judge this for her and ienself. Biographical: Marguerite elle, alias Mata-Harl, was born in 1876 in Java, of a native mother and a Dutch father. 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(Major Massard relates that she attended the manoeuvres in Silesia before ths war under the protection of the German Crown Prince, quite a likely occurrence if we recall that enchant for dancing girl Just before the war, Ma in the first flight courtesans, took a villa at Nouilly, Paris suburb, and here she staged risque sotrer “magistrates, became of cosmop for the artists, exist to this day, patronized by neu- mer. and show girls and men ey and jaded nppetite—and lara, according to Major Mas- sard, apparently left litte or nothing her clients’ says Gallicly, if not exactly gallant- ly, “I'm going to show her as nude ‘was when she danced before our soldiers and politicians,” ‘ajor, who writes most wrathfully throughout, explains that he knows his subject in all its intricacies. Commandant of the Staff of the Armies of Paris I as- sisted—alone—at the two audiences of the court martial which judged her in the most rigorous secrecy, I not lose sight of her in prison at St, and it was I who led her to IT can therefore imagination, me to divulge ello Woman Spy ntence and Execution Mata-Hari the Dancer. | At fourteen she McLeod, a of the Indian Army stationed in the Straits Settlements. At seventeen, having borne him two decamped Mata-Hari devel- hari, no benefit of soldiers and Such cor- ners of high license, not wholly re- stricted to Paris, are well known to for be The General tel." loved, “Yo has fixed these “excellent French-| men" definitely and thelr names are jan open secret in Parts to-day.) | sterda Major Massara continues: "Phe boches have sought to make Jof the adominable spy a German ine to oppose Nurse Cavell. They end that she was innocent, that condemnation was a judicial er- uthor atttempt y & prostitute} dso muny of our compa- | The day war was declared Mata was in Berlin, She lunched with the chief of police in a fashionable res- taurant, after which there were such crowds in the streets that her escort had to take her in his carriage and thus they drove through the streets of the capital. This fact was ad-| mitted by the spy. | “How were you with the Prefect! of Police in Berlin on the day of the | | declaration of war?" asked the Pres- ident of the court | { the music hall jaying. In Germany © the right to consor theatrical costumes and they found me too undraped. The Prefect came to examine me and that was how we and gave you the number CAL 42." | *That is wo," replied the dancer. | IT was given a baptismal name in or- | der that I might correspond with my friend, and 30,000 marks, But these 40,000 marks were not the salary of & spy but were the price of my fa- vors, because I was the mistress of the Chief of Intelligence.” | “We know that. But he was very generous.” “Thirty thousand marks, that was my regular price. My lovers never gave me less.” “From Berlin you came to France, passing through Belgium and Eng-/ land, We were at the height of the war. 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(In pass. |MUmber of soldiers to bo shot.) ing, the date of the Mata-Hari case | “it is true that from the front I was no longer in Berlin but tp Am- It is not my fault that he was Chief of Intelligence,” “Thia reply," observes Major Mas- “the feebleness of which ror—in brief ,that she was a murty in the dock. Officers, «he tetis her | to French officers, And they ha’ Ayia sad = He Posed hoo not hesitated to send out propagan-| AM ight, centeaved. «bu dist fiims to America and elsewhere| ex were alway solller. | in support of this contention, It is} = = Iwill p healwillaidyou © and painting her as a near-|without warning to Holland, ind/| made each other's acquaintance.” | moet careful study and gentle 4 ine pleading for mercy from stern |then began what was destined to be} “Good. You then entered the eer- treatment. 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