VON PAPEN'S POCKETS TURNED OUT

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2690, 9 February 1916, Page 5

VON PAPEN'S POCKETS TURNED OUT

SOME INTERESTING LETTERS -i By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Rec. February 8, 10.25 p.m.) London, February 7. A Whito Paper which lias been issued contains a selection from the papers which were found • in Captain Von Papon's possession, and also facsimiles ot many cheques, and a letter from tho Disconton Geselbcbaft at Potsdam to him, dated July 25, 1914, in which it was stated: "Austria will probably declare war." A postscript added: "We have never before seen such preparations for war as at present." In a letter from Berlin on September 29, 1914, and -..igned Filipino, the writer. requests Von Papen to a.rfange for the wide publicity of certain newspaper' articles. The correspondent stated that at first things went off at a giant's pace. Now it is such that the Austrians are fighting well, tut their leadership ;s bad. They have had tj ritreat to the Carpathians. The reaction on the BalKans and on Italy's attitude is correspondingly bad, but our troops will pull the matter through all rigfit. The ■war will probably drag over the winter." Several letters show that E. H. Fox, understood to bo general manager of "Wildman's Magazine" and. News Agency, played an important part in the American Press campaign from Berlin. Writing to Von Papen, ho expressed the conviction that misunderstandings between the «wo countnes were duo to poor advice, and the warped view-point of the American Embassy. Price H. Sazef.eld, Washington, in an undated, letter, told Von Papen that his (Sazefield's) wife had written to say that Bulgaria would certainly jcin us' after the harvest at the end of August; and that Rumania would remain inactive. M. Dumba, writing to Von Papen on, September 1, 1915, displays some anxiety about the Dardanelles holding out. Ho added: "Everything has ended happily. The people of Washington already think they can liear the bells I of peace, but we haven't got that length yet."