SECRETS OF KAISER.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 September 1915, Page 8

SECRETS OF KAISER.

STOLEN IN NEW YORK. S'lStfß liartung disclosures are being aiada at 'New York in relation U* the maclibaticM c-f Oarman officials :n the U.S, and the ttewspar.sere, whii aJa-jst exaiuorreiy tiw Allies, iwv* M&da uiueh capital aver con'espondei'C!) ivliich passed to and from the Gtaras-a KxtiiwMwy snd which has beau published fW.a-.eai as documentary yroot' that the ofHftkte cl Const Bernstorif'B sUff are actively c.ugagss! in work for ilic GerxnaM «o«y.oKtKt lsi Ameri-A. Tho Kaiser's reusestative.l arn boiling with raga at tho daily cspf!K:ras cV iht-Jr tactics, and thsL- oaly {'"■'■ aJs UuvS the "jssjera" were atokn.' This declaration was made by oa« of the oiTkiab) of tho German Sribassy, which is now practically located in New York instead of Washington U.C. The thief, it was said, was employed by tho agent of "a foreign Power."' He would not mention the "Power" he suspected. The vistim of the tbief, he sjaid, was Dr. • Hcinrich Albert, financial secretary and counsel to the Embassy. "On the afternoon of Saturday, July 31," he said, "Dr Albert left his ofßce in Lower Broadway to go to the German Club in Fifty-ninth Street. He had much unfinished correspondence relative to the Embassy, and he placed it in a portfolio so that he could complete his work at the club. He boarded a Sixth Avenue elevated train and placed the portfolio and the letters and papers at his side. When he reached Fifteenth Street he discovered the leather case was missing." Greatly excited, Dr. Albert shouted in vain after the train as it went out of the station. He boarded the next train bound north, and when he reached the end of the line questioned the conductor. The trainmen, however, denied knowledge of

the property. Dr. Albert, distressed at his loss, notified the officers of the Interborough to learn whether it had been handed to the "lost and found" department.

"The papers are not highly import ant," he said.

As fast as railway trains could carry him, Count von Bernstorff sped from •Saranac Lake to New York when he learned of the publication some fifteen days later of the German Embassy documents. Apparently the "finder" of the telltale documents had allowed the New York newspapers to learn the contents, and an arrangement was made to publish the secrets chapter by chapter, to the utter discomfiture of the Kaiser's officials.

A. Bruce Bielaski, chief of the division of the Department of Justice, who has charge of the federal investigation into tlje charges the Germany is conducting an illegal propaganda in the U.S., was immediately summoned to the State Department at Washington, by Secretary of State Lansing, and a long conference ensued. The only available statement was the the U.S. Government was prepared to prosecute any violation of neutrality discovered.

The "Providence Journal" stated that federal officials were investigating leaks in the treasury and State Departments through which the German Embassy had been receiving information.

The Government has in its possession positive proof that these leaks have been constant and that important and valuable information has found its way into the possession of Count von Bernstorff and Captain Boy-Ed. Conclusive proof of the conditions in the l departments named has already been secured.