Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-11-15

most entire freedom from restraint in
every illicit act they are performing.
Vast Sums Spent
NO passport fraud agent in New
York or Cleveland or Philadelphia
and these three cities are full of them
could live and do business a day
without the sanction and friendly as
sistance of the Austrian and German
officials.
When the truth is known concern
ing the actual sums of money that
have been spent in this country, for
the purchase OF newspapers, the sub
sidizins of college professors. the de-
struction of munitions plants, the hir
ing of halls, the payment of travelling
expenses for hundreds of men who are
constantly moving about the country.
and for many other purposes, the
amount will stagger the imagination
With reference to the charges made
ny the Austro-Hungarian embassy in
Washington Friday that DR.. Goricar
is Russian spy and that he used his
position as consul to further Slavic
interests against those of Austro-Hun
gary, DR.. Goricar said:
THE declaration of the embassy is
utterly ridiculous and can be proved
so 10 the satisfaction Of every think
ing man. When returned to this coun-
try, in the beginning of March Of this
year, after my resignation, was no
tilted by friends in the consular ser
vice that the government had sent
word To officials in this country to
have me declared either insane or a
Russian spy at the first sign Of any
movement on my part against their
interests. This Russian spy charge is
simply the old propaganda that they
intended to use against me several
months ago.
Good Chance to Be Traitor
Il also desire to call attention to the
fact that if have been a traitor to my
splendid opportunity to present to
Russia the most vital secrets of its
activities two days prior to the decla-
ration of war when, on the 26th Of
July, 1914, l was sent from Warsaw bv
the consulate to Vienna with secret
dispatches of the utmost importance
and carried them in my pocket until
my arrival in Vienna on the night Of
the 9th, when l was received in the
foreign Office by Count Forgach. the
acting minister of foreign affairs What
an opportunity if | have really been
traitor to my country,
The French ambassador came out
as | wen, in and tried to tell Count
F'orgach, who was my personal friend,
that l believed diplomacy could still
save the situation. His reply to m,
was as follows: Diplomacy can do no
more We have placed everything in
the hands of the general staff
Promised Advancement
The embassy declares that | left
my post in Berlin without permission,
his is an absolute falsehood When l
went TO Rome / was on leave Of alb
sence. The embassy also claims that
feared dismissal and therefore re-
signed in order to prevent it. The
truth is that some weeks after the
goth of December, the date on which
sent my resignation to Vienna,
Count Colleredo came to me from
Baron Macchlo, the Austrian ambas-
sador to the Quirinal. and told me
that the baron had seen my resigna-
ton on file in the foreign Office in
Vienna. He pleaded with me to with
draw my resignation and in behalf of
the foreign. office promised me that if
would do SO l would secure ad-
Vancement and more important
post than l had yet occupied
Il declined the proposition and
Count Coleredo then told me that
the ambassador was very sorry and
would have done anything in his pow
er to keep me in the servic&
Since my return to this country l
have never sought to disguise the fact
that l have been working, and still am
working, for Slavic unity. The Aus
TRAN embassy has known very we'll
from the first day of my return to
America that l came back here for
this specific work and am not
ashamed of it. | have never used any
subterfuge or operated under cover.
On the other hand. however, the
Austro- Hungarian embassy and. Con-
sui General Won Nuber. with all the
consuls mentioned in my statement
AaANs' o. AAtA 10 AAho every AuoACht
against the peace and order of the
United States. They have used every
method known to the spy and the
plotter to carry out their aims secretly
and to do their vicious and dishon-
orable work without discovery.
Denies Reasonable Acts
The charge that I have ever at
to induce any Slav in this
country to reasonable acts against
Austro- Hungary is a deliberate false
hood. If the Austrian embassy can
prove that I have done anything of
this kind, in one single instance. /
offer myself up for the threatened
promised to such traitors.
and will cheerfully go back to Aus
tria to meet it.
1T is quite true that l am today sim
cerely DESTROYS of victory for the Allies.
have nothing against Austria except
that l deplore the way in which the cor
rupting influence of Germany has de-
stroyed her vitality and her government
and filed her leaders with the mad desire
to obliterate the Slavic spirit. l not only
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