America,

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 99, 2 December 1915, Page 5

America,

I v t % 4 * *■ ’• GERMAN EXCHANGE DROPS. RESULT OF SERBIAN CAMPAIGN. j [United Pke&b Association.] ‘ u k ‘ * d ‘New York, December 1. There, has been a remarkable drop in the German exchange in the past two days. The value of the four marks is quoted at seventy-nine threeeighths. The rate was eighty-four before the Serbian campaign. HAMBURC-AMERIKA SPIES. AMAZING REVELATIONS. GERMANY’S ARRANGEMENTS BEFORE THE WAR. NEUTRAL VESSELS SUPPLY WARSHIPS. (Received 10 a.m.) New York, December 1. Sensational disclosures have been made by Doctor Karl Buenz, managing director of the Hamburg-Amerika Company under examination in the American Government’s ease of alleged conspiracy against the United states‘in fitting out steamers at American ports to assist German warships in the Atlantic and Pacific. Buenz admitted that full instructions were issued from Berlin a year before war broke out, teelling him how to secure neutral vessels to supply the German warships, if the British Navy held the sea and the communications. The HamburgAmerika line had a private agreement with the German Government in this regard. It had received a million dollars since the war began, direct from Berlin to enable it to carry out the agreement. Boyed acted as the intermediary. The German Embassy at Washington was fully cognisant of every detail of the conspiracy. All documents were handed to it for transmission to Germany. Although Britain severed the cables in the Atlantic after the war began, the HamburgAmerika line was able to maintain a constant cable communication with Germany.