VON PAPEN RELIEVED OF HIS PAPERS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2670, 17 January 1916, Page 5

VON PAPEN RELIEVED OF HIS PAPERS

MANY COMPROMISING DOCUMENTS i B7 Telegraph—Pices Association—CopjrisMl . ' (Kcc. January 16, 11 p.m.) j ' London, January 15. ; Greatly to Captain von Papen's dis- ; gust the authorities at Falmouth seized . 'his papers, which wore not protected by, his safe conduct, pass. The Associated • Press, New York, states ' that theso j include many compromising documents.' i The ex-attache's cheque hook shows payments to a dynamitard named Horn, ; and the spy Kuepherlie; remittances to ' Seattle a fortnight before the explo- : sion on May 30a letter from Herr •Moysentsurg, German Consul at Now ■: Orleans, saying: "There may be a day, j of reckoning come liere, and our Gov- i ernment will find again tliat ii'on deter- j mination with which alone one call i make an impression on this country."' A letter from General Bernhardi complained that the British newspapers had insulted him. He hoped that British. ■ interference witli American trade would ! have some effect in America. [Von Papon was the German attache ; at the Embassy at Washington whoso .: spying propensities, plots in connection, > with strikes and outrages at war factories, and general capacity for creat-' I ing trouble, led to his recall by the i Kaiser after.a violent newspaper agita- i tion in America. The spy Kuepherlie ! figured in the cabled news in May last j as one of the central figures in a huge . spy organisation which j had its headquarters in America. He was run to : earth and-arrestee.!