To, the Editor of the "Nota-Cutva Daly News."
Sm,—So much nonsense has been said, written or projected on the:
Iver screen regarding the fame lata Hari that it may be of some interest to your readers to know something about that strange woman. have known Mrs, McLeod—for Jsuch was the real name of Hari—when traveling on the steamer as she did, the "Oceani from Singapore to. Marseilles; couple of yearg before the great war, 'When she arrived in Paris, was' instrument traducing her Mr. Guimet, the head of the famous Museum of Oriental Arts hich bears the name of "Musée Guimet for the purpose of demonstrating her "sacred dances" of Javanese 50 called mysterious rites. From that moment, she began most successful career a dancer. She was very grateful for my assistance and we were then, for on very friendly terms.
"Mara Hari—the Eye of the Morning—was not at all what she is alleged to have bet and the cinema pi ture, as it is presently produced a local theatre, has little to do with the real Mara Hari. vei ry rarely attend any_produe' ions from Hollywood ay they are, asia rule, profoundly Idiotic" and thee" stage TEE "Te mar fom toon ced toler i Lea jed. She was a spy and had caused diana alt oP Soto fellows who had been foolish enough to trust her, From far away I follow-
Jsentenced to death, happened to be jin Paris. Through a strange coin-ceted eto Winco coer dan eects oer secon Betis ott feat ate ace stopped for a few minutes on the Jexecution ground; the day was a Jdull and grey one, and I picked a few grass leaves soaked with blood, Jat the place where a few hours before, Mara Hari had been shot.
As have said, Mara had become money mad" like so many of her kind. 'She was 44 years of age when Jshe was executed. After the first two years of her successful career, she had spent or lost the immense sums of money she had earned Jduring her meteorical ascent. The war brought a stop to many' theat-tical enterprises and, anyhow, impressarios had enough of "sacred Jdanees", It fs then that she offered her "seiviees to the enemies of Had she been herself one apologia in connection with the case of C. Tt, Ahn, allow: me. t0 This art directors grossly incompetent, production of Mara Hari prov St Mara Hari p ed country, She' would have: been, shot nccordig to the rules of wat, But Doint out that according to the recognised authorities on International Law, subjects of a conquered country, who are not resident therein at the' time' of "annexation and who have not, "returned" thereto subse~ quently donot' become ipo' facto Subjects of the conqueror, As Dr. Mui himself admitted, Me, Ahn left Korea before its an: vexation and, since that time, has never been back to that. country, While My. Ahn ceased, of course, to be a Korean subject ripon the an: nexation of Korea by Japan, he did not thereby requite the Japanese nationality. In other words, after annexation of Koi and be: fore his naturalization as subject, Mr. Ah person.' The question of tion does not arise and "in the eye of International Law and International Comity", he is not and has never been a Japanese subject.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.