PLOTS IN AMERICA

Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 128, 3 June 1919, Page 7

PLOTS IN AMERICA

BERNSTORFF'S CONFESSIONS,

Among papers captured at Nazareth from Captain yon Papen, formerly Mili- [ tary Attache at the German Embassy in Washington, who was expelled from the United States on account of his complicity in the many German murder and outrage plots discovered "before America entered the war, is a remarkable letter from Count Bernstorff, the then Ambassador, to the Imperial Chancellor, Herr Sethmann-Holhveg, written several months before the United States declared war. A copy of this epistle was forwarded to Yon Papen, then a General Staff officer on the staff of the 4th Guard Infantry Division, by the Berlin War Office on 31st January, 1917, contains the following passages: RYE, 26th August, 1916. , The suit is still pending against You Igel, on account of his participation in the. expedition against the Welland Canal. Sines the Imperial Government has taken up in regard to this the position that the person of Herr yon Igel, as a member of the Embassy, and the papers found in his possession are inviolable, it is out of the question, according to my most respectful opinion, to announce -to the American authorities his dismissal from the service of the Embassy. Such a step would undoubtedly very much weaken the point of principle on which, we stand. Herr yon Igel and Herr yon Skal have, apart from the service for the War Intelligence Centre, carried on the various commercial measures introduced and already partly concluded by Herr yon Papen. Those have to do, among other things, v.-it-h the orders placed by the Bridgeport Projectile Company, the Aetua Powder Company, the purchase" of chlorine and of earthenware, with the sales of arnss-—stored to our account in New _Yoi.'k and the State of Washington | —v?hjdi were intended .for India, the ! settling up of the benzoi, phenol, and toluol arrangements, the discharge of vaiioßg "Jaw suits, sisch as those against Sopi.f, ScbleWi, Kienzie, Breitung, | Willpcrt, and Bode, as weH as the ar- | r;i;igiug of assistance for various peri son*! and their families involved in these !av.r suits. In all these measures, Privy Councillor Albert has been consulted by Herr i yon Igel, as directed st the time by I Herr yon Papers. On important ques- | tioijs my decision wa-s called upon alto. i The carrying on of these tasks by ani other roan presents particular ififHciijties,- since, to make oneself acquainted with the matters, very intricate in part, consequent on the destruction of all com-' promising docunrsnts ordered by your Excellency, ?s almost o'.vfc of tile ■question. The Labour Reference 3?i!r«au. too, for German and Austrian and Hungarian subjects, who have left the present munition or other factories, has, up to the present, been supervised by Herr yon Igel. The connection, moreover, in New York with the India-Irish revolutionaries lias been maintained since the departure of Herr Yon Papen eithev by HeiT yon Igel or Herr yon Skal. Herr yon Skal keeps in touch with the Irish, for which, i owing to his wide acquaintance in these '■ circles, lie is peculiarly fitted, nnd he l*laoj, m .before, .enjoys .their-confidence,. ;