GERM SLIMNESS IN AMERICA

Hokitika Guardian, 24 September 1917, Page 3

GERM SLIMNESS IN AMERICA

1 BERNSTORFF JS BRTbIrY. i —Lc' I IPER PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT.] I * j WASHINGTON, September 21. ! The. State Department announces that Count Bornstorff sent the following message to Berlin on .Tanuary 22 nd. 1917. 1 “I request authority to pay up to , fifty- thousand dollars in order as on j former occasions to influence Congress through the_ organisation you know of which can perhaps, prevent, war. I am beginning in tlie mciintime, to act accordingly. I Tn the above, circumstances, a public i official German declaration in favour ! of Ireland is highly desirable, in. order I to gain the support of Irish influence' I here.” j CONGRESS INVESTIGATION. I [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. COPYRIGHT.] I Washington, sept. 21. j Congress expects to begin an investigation ns to whether or not members accepted money from Count Bornstorff, the ex-Gorman Ambassador. The subject has produced an enormous sensation, strengthening the patriotic majority in Congress against tho small ,

querulous minority who are demanding lengthy debates on all war measures. This incident, with others of a similar character, is regarded ns most significant. The American Secret, Service Corps j *' possesses the German diplomatic codes , nnd thf> Kaiser is no longer able to ( secretly communicate to diplomats < abroad. ( \ | GERMAN INTRIGUE'S, i LAID BARE TN AMERICA. < I ’ j I LONDON TIMES SERVICE COPYRIGHT] ! (Received, This Day at 8.50. a.m.) i LONDON, September 23. *■ j A Washington correspondent says the i Committee of Public Information have j published an exposure of German in- • trigues in America accompanied by photographic exhibits including facsimiles j of receipts to the German Embassy for | five thousand dollars, from a journalist, j"Archibald, who was caught carrying de- { s patches to Dr. Duinba, a former A usj Anfba’ssador .and a thousand i dollars to Edwin Emerson who went lto Germany as war correspondent for j a New York paper. Also a photoj graph convicting Oapt, von Capen, the | former German military attache of i paying for bombing ships, I I Documents seized in Von. Engel’s | so-called advertisement bureau in 1915,

showing tilt extraordinary ramifications of German diplomats and Irish revolutionary movements. It was a New York Irishman who acted as go-be-tween for the Germans in their dealings with Roger Casement. A cipher document addressed to Count Bornstorff in April 1916, incriminates Cohalan, a Justice of Now York Supreme Court, who is a prominent Irish American.

Cohnlon says “A revolution in Ireland can only he successful if supported by Germany. Help is necessary, consisting primarily of aerial attacks on England, and a diversion with the fleet simultaneously with the Trisli revolution, and then the landing of troops arms and ammunition in Ireland. This would enable the Trish ports to he closed against England, and the esfcabl.dslun.ment of submarine stations on the Trish coast. ,Tho cutting off of the supply for England and the success of the revolution may decide the war.” FURTHER DISCLOSURES. rAUSTRALIAN «fe N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION] Received, this day at 8.45 a.m. WASHINGTON, September 23. Documents regarding the German instrigue in America also disclose a plot for fomenting ill-feeling in Mexico against America and the subsidising of labour troubles, in munition works.

i Von Engel’s documents refer to sev- | oral . inoiv'cta ry payments to daso- : ment. including a cheque for 10,000 dollars. The Committee sity s it 'ft nn open- secret that Holland is merely a midway station of the shipment of contraband to Germany. The State Department deprecates the interpretation that Congress men were affected by Bernstorff’s money. It he- j 1 loves it was expended by' i organisations to bombard Con- j gressmon with telegrams and petitions | in favour of peace- I I I I KEEPING IT UP. | i (Received This Dav at 9.50. a.m.) j | NEW YORK, Sept, 23. \ ! Tile New York “Herald” declares there is still a directing genius of Gerpmn propaganda in United .States, with unlimtied funds. A DENIAL. . Received this day at 2.36 p.m.,) NEW YORK, Sept. 23 • Mr. Justice Cohalan has issued a ' statement denying that lie sent any advice to Germany. He says he did not know Von Eigel. The New York “World” in an editorial urges Cohalans removal from the bench.