Moscow, Dec. 18.
Mr. Gordon Vereker, Acting Counseller of the British Embassy at Moscow since 1937, is presumed to have been detained in Germany following the interception by a German warship of the steamer in which he was travelling on his way to England.
Mr. Vereker, who is well-known in Peiping where he was on the staff of the British Embassy for several years, left Moscow for Tallin ten days ago.
At Tallin he went aboard an Estonian steamer which was to take him to Stockholm.
The steamer in which he was travelling was later intercepted by a German warship and ordered to go to the German port of Swinemunde, where Mr. Vereker is reported to have been taken ashore.
Mr. Vereker was on his way to ta|England to receive his appointment as British Minister to Bolivia—
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