At the Tuneheon which followed Mr. Baldwin's Rectorial address to the students of Edinburgh Uni sity, Lord Balfour made an teresting revelation as to the serviess which Sir Alfred Owing, Vice-Chancellor of the University had rendered during the war. When the war broke out there was no adequate organization for dealing with the modern developments of sending cipher messages by wire-ess and all the other complicated methods of modern civilization and invention. Yet before the war was half through they were in possossion of what was without doubt the most admirable service for carrying out the all-important duties of dealing with those messages and deciphering codes. The organization by which that great end was attained was duc to Sir Alfred Owing, Its results were never spoken of by those most intimately acquainted with them, and often had he felt, when Sir Alfred Owing was the subject of conversation, sorely tempted to say what they all owed to him. Lord Balfour's revelation must be given in full. Referring to a letter written by Page, the American Ambassador, during the war, to his Government, which has just' been published in magazine, Lord "Balfour said—"You will see a brief account of an interview which he had with me when I'was Foreign Secretary, in which I communicated to him, under the seal of confidence, a plan of the then German Government, the old Imperial German Government, for dragging Mexico into the war and turning all the forces ied, Japan also, that that the German ated Government was the policy Government, the Ameri and the American publ, that a great deal hat immense impulse was given to the great American nation which brought them in at a critical moment of the Great War, That discovery, and the machinery by which that discovery and many others of vital importance were known to the British Government that discovery was due to the mirable organization of which your Vice-Chancellor is the author."
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