LAMP POSTS FOR HUNS.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 October 1917, Page 6

LAMP POSTS FOR HUNS.

MB, GERARD'S REPLY TO THREAT, BERLIN'S HOPE IN AMERICA. ■ Mr. Gerard, late U.S. Ambassador in Berlin, gives the story of a piquant en-, counter with Herr Zimmermann in an instalment of his memoirs, published by the Daily Telegraph. Discussing the crisis and negotiations which followed the Lusitania outrage, lie writes:— During this period I had constant conversations with Herr Jagow and Herr Zimmermann, and it was during the period of the conversations about this submarine warfare that Herr Zimmermann on one occasion said to me that the united States does not dare do anything against Germany, "because we hay» •500,001) German reservists in America, •who will rise in arms against your Government if your Government shouk dare to take any action against Germany." As he said this he worked himself up to a passion, and repeatedly struck the table with his fist. I told him that we had 500,001 lamp-posts in America, and that was where the' German reservists would find themselves if they tried any uprising. \ LOST TO THE FATHERLAND. I also called his attention to the fact that no German-Americans making use of I American passports, which they could easily obtain, were sailing for Germany by way of the Scandinavian counties in order to enlist in the German Army. I told him that if he could show me one person with an American passport who had come to'fight in the German army I nfight more readily believe what he said tfbout the Germans in America rising in revolution. As a matter of fact; during the whole course of the war, I knaw only one man with American citizenship'.who enlisted in tho German army. This was a redheaded Yale student named Llewellys, who enlisted in a German regiment. His father, a business man in New" York, cabled asking me to have his son released from the German army, and so I procMeij! the discharge of the young man, who immediately "wrote me and informed me that he was over 21, and h* csuld not see what business iis father had to inteifere with his military ambitions. F thereupon withdrew my request with reference to him, tout he had alreadjr been discharged from the army. When ihis regiment to the West front he stowed away on the cars with it, was present at the attack on Ypres, and was shot througli the bodv. He recovered in a German hospital, received the Iron Cross, was discharged and sailed for America. What has since become of him I do not know.