A handsome young man was an officer in the Imperial German Navy when war broke out. He was Count Alfred Niezyzhowski, known to the smarter Berlin set as "Al" or "Nizzy." He was not really a "Bosch,"but a fine gentleman from the Polish part of East Prussia; and his uncle, Baron Hengelmuller, Austrian Ambassador to the U. S., had long been the popular dean of the diplomatic corps at Washington.
Count Niezyzhowski was assigned to the Kronprins Wilhelm, a destroyer of Allied shipping. On Apr. 11, 1915, his ship was forced into Newport...
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