New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-17
CAPITAL MOVED
BY GERHARD CASE
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the name Of Gerhard, as indicated in
The Tribune this morning.
at has been stated that the German
government would not care to learn
any more details as to the armament OF
the United States, its war secrets, the
methods of its manufacture OF arms and
ammunition, the beliefs Of its ordnance
officers in both army and navy as TO the
best weapons and the best ammunition,
but any such statement shows a wo-
full ignorance of the means of operating
of the German Secret Service.
"The German government always
wants the very latest information, and,
not only that, after it hears report
from one of its humber sources II
always seeks q verifcation by some one
in whom il has great confidence That
some one. in this instance, believe,
was DR.. Meyer, or Gerhard, or whatever
his right name was
an short, this man, armed with all
the information he could gather here,
not only from this government but
through various means from the repre-
sentatives OF the Allies here, was per-
mitted, through the assurance Of the
United States government, acting hon
estly but mistakenly, to get safe
passage home, where he will reveal
all the information he carries.
Calls Deception "Monstrous."
Gwen if he had gathered no infor-
nation, which we would not credit for
an instant, the mere fact that he had
been negotiating for the purchase OF
arms and ammunition and for the con-
troll of the factories in which they are
made would seem to make it mon
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should be deceived into giving asSur-
ances that he was only a close personal
friend of the German Ambassador and
connected with the German Red Cross,
so that the governments Of the Allies
tacitly agreed to let him 80 TO Ger
many unmoleSted'
II was pointed out to-day that the
allied embassies had been asked by
the State Department for a safe con-
duet for Gerhard, but the information
given by Mr.. Bryan was so vague that
they would not take the responsibility
for giving such a safe conduct. They
cabled their home governments what
was desired by the United States and,
according to this information, the For
eign Offices replied that, while no safe
conduct would be issued, if this man
was carrying a message from Count
Won Bernstorff TO the German Foreign
Office, which might have the effect of
preventing a war between Germany and
the United States, by all means he
should be unmolested, though no Oti-
cial cognizance would be taken of it.
knowledge of this arrangement be-
tween the embassies and their home
Offices has been generally known, and
il was this which caused Indignation
at the reported action of the German
Embassy in misleading the State De-
partment as to the identity Of Gerhard.
Wonder at Bruins Course.
There was considerable interest
among the Allies also as to what rep
reservations had been made 10 Con-
stantin Brun, the Danish Minister, who
gave a letter to Dr. Gerhard, without
which, il was said, he would have had
difficulty in going to Copenhagen on the
Danish ship. Great Importance was
attached by the Ally diplomats to the
question whether Mr.. Brun did this at
the request Of Count Won Bernstorff or
Mr.. Bryan.
From the present attitude of the
Ally diplomats. however, there will be
no more casual approving of safe con-
ducts, either formally or informally, on
the say-so of the State Department,
unless il is concusiyely shown that no
German spy or special representative
was allowed TO sail to Copenhagen un-
Ger the name of Gerhard.
The Assistant Attorney General in
charge Of questions originating at the
State Department said that nothing had
been referred TO him on the Meyer-Ger-
hard report.
Secretary Of State Lansing expects