Mr. Gordon Vereker, Acting Counseller of the British" Embassy at Moscow since 1997, is presumed to have been detained' in Germany following the interception by a Germa warship of the steamer in which he was travelling on his way to England, Mr. Vereker, who is well-known Peiping, where he was on the stuff of the British Embassy for several years, left Moscow for Tallin ten days ago.
'AN Tallin he went aboard Estonian sloomer whic was to take him to Stockholm. steamer in which he was rllingt was later intercepted by a German warship and ordered to 0 to the German port of Swinemunde, where Me. Vereker is reported to have been token ashore.
Mr. Vereker was on his way to Engl:
\d to receive his appointment as British Minister to Bolivia—
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