THEIR COMPLETE EXPOSURE

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 24 September 1917, Page 5

THEIR COMPLETE EXPOSURE

More Reverses for the Russians

GERMAN BRIBERY.

CONVINCING EVIDENCE DISCLOSED. THE IRISH REVOLUTION. HOW IT WASTO BE WORKED. Received 8.45. \ ~ LONDON, Sept 23. A Washington correspondent says the committee of Public Information publishes an exposure of German intrigues in America, accompanied by photographic exhibits, including facsimiles of receipts to the German Embassy of five thousand dollars from the journalist Archibald, wSq iwajJ v caught carrying despatches. Dr Dumba former Austrian Ambassador, on« thousand dollars; Edwin Emerson, who went'to Germany as a wa'r correspondent fof a New York paper; also photographs convicting Captain von Papen, a former German military attache, paying for bombing ships. The documents seized in Von Eigel's so-called advertising bureau- in 1915 show the extraordinary system and plotting of outrages, and prove fee connection between German diplomats aJd the Irish revolutionary movements. It was a New York Irishman who acted as the go-between for the Germans in dealings with Casement. ■pn Cipher documents addressed to Count Bernstorff in April, 1916, incriminate a Justice of New York Supreme Court, who was a prominent Irish-American. Cohalan says: . "A revolution in Ireland would only be successful if supported by Germany. Help is necessary, con- ; sisting primarily of aerial attacks on England and a' diversion with the fleet, simultaneously with an Irish revolution/then the landing of troops arms, and' ammunition in Ireland. This would enable the Irish ports to be closed against England, and the establishment of submarine stations on the Irish coast, cutting off the supply of food for England, and the sir cess of the revolution may decide the war." HOLLAND IMPLICATED. CONGRESSMEN ABSOLVED FROM COMPLICITY. Received 8.45. WASHINGTON, Sept. 22. Documents regarding German intrigues in America also disclose a plot for fomenting ill-feeling in Mexico against subsidising labour trouble* munition works. Von Eigel's documents refer to seval monetary payments to Casement, including a cheque of 10,000 dollars. The Committee says it is an open secret that Holland was merely a midway station for the shipment of contraband to Germany. The State Department deprecates the interpretation that Congressmen accepted Berntorff's money, and believes it was expended by an organisation to bombard Congressman "rtdth telegrams and petitions in favour of peace. BELGIUM'S INDEPENDENCE. ACCEPTED BY GERMANY. LONDON, September 21. The.. Tageblatt 's " Zurich correspondent says: "Germany's reply -to the Pope dce s not contain a formal renunciation of the annexation of Belgium, but implicitly accepts Belgium's independence" The ""Vossichc Zeitung" states that s ' Fr-sin has" expressed willingness to eooTrate with the Vatican peace moveTrent. '■' ' SETOT tok ESPIONAGE. L"'" " ;:' "■:-- ■■■ !P - PARIS, September 21. ~- A c.cmn-taariial at Marseilles senf fenced to'We&th a Swiss singer named Xrjji-n T>£?,ni" for espionage. .?■'■

Jffective Reply to Peace Talk GERMANS BADLY DEFEATED Desperate Counter-attacks Repulsed With Heavy Losses