Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-11-19

He Doctor Albert Immediately called
In . secretary as witness 10 the COM
veFsation. and then replied
~ ana fiscal agent % my govern
ment in this country. and ] ann ham
ding certain sums of money
'-Wiu you tell u.s. be was asked,
III YOU and the German ambassador
have joint funds lea the Chase Na-
tional bank and number Of other
banks I'm this counry2"
What IS your purpose Of asking
me tAat question:" he replied. lie
was told that the only purpose was
% have him state. that whatever Joint
funds he and the ambassador were
carrying and however great the sum
total Of these funds was. they were
being expended for lawful purposes
Would Make No statement.
Doctor Albert refused 10 make any
statement whatever in regard 20 this
matter lie was then asked If ne
would deny that ne had received per-
sonally over $1,000 600 from his gov
ornmcnt in the past two months. and
if he did not on September 8 receive,
through the Guaranty Trust company,
the sum Of $4,000. 600 for "accordo-
Mica" work. Al this question Doctor
Albert was vislhly thrown off his bal
ancc. The question was based on
wireless dispatch received hy the
Guaranty Trust company on Septem-
Der o. through SayvIIle purporting On
come from the Litmus company, OF
Of
ficeand which read as follows:
"Accordonica Pay on application
to Geheimrat Heinrich Albert, New
York. 100000 Notify him let us
know by wire when part of payment
is done Gable receipt Of telegram"
What 40 you mean By asking me
question like that" Doctor Albert
said finally.
wye mean" said the Journal repre-
sentative, THAI 'aecordonica' is a
code word usedby both the German
ambassador and yourself in commu-
nieatlng with Berlin and that it des-
ignates the particular account for
which the money is TO be expended.
Doctor Albert said: II refuse TO
make any statement whatever to the
Providence journal or 10 anybody else
/ will make no statement, no matter
what you print"
Wired Home for 1Ioney.
It was Immediately after the expo
sure of the contents of Doctor Al
bcrts portfolio on August Is that he
began 10 receive these great sums Of
money. Up to that time most Of the
,peremptory demands for large sums
from the foreign office had gone from
Count Won Bernstorff, who. within a
period Of week. just before the
breaking up of the Huerta plot, got
over $4,000 600. The government has
in his possession evidence OF these
large transfers
on September % Doctor Dumba
was also violently affected with a dis
tressing financial shortage and sent
the following wireless message to his
minister Of foreign affairs in Vienna
from LenoX, Mass:
81 reiterate my telegram of the
18th. If I am not empowered by the
26th of the current month TO receive
tho sum of S6ll,216 for the Hunga-
rian postal administration l win be
compelled to pay the whole amount.
beg you TO acknowledge receipt of
this telegram.
Tho words Hungarian Postal adj
ministration' are, of course. a blind
in this case, because under no cir
cumstanees could Doctor Dumba be
addressing COMMUNICATION to the
minister of foreign affairs with regard
to such a matter It is declared that
the amount referred to was connected
with a transaction through the Trans
Atlantic Trust company and that the
reference to the Hungarian postal adj
ministration means the Transatlantic
trust.
Munitions Workers Threatened.
The journal prints this morning fac
SMILES of communications from the
Austrian consul general in New York
and the Austrian consul general in
Philadelphia to individual workers i'm
munitions factories, who have written
to them for an explanation Of the adj
vertisement appearing in a great mum
Der Of foreign language newspapers
ana threatening such workers unless
/ they withdrew at once from their en-
/ ployment This advertisement, which
is still being inserted and paid for by
Consul General Won Nuber. in spite of
! the fact that it is part of the propa-
/ ganda for which Doctor Dumba was
dismissed, reads as follows.
The imperial and royal Austro-
Hungarian embassy acting under or
der from the home government, gives
notice by this announcement to all
Austrian ana Hungarian citizens, in
Guiding the men that belong to Bos-
mia and herzegovina, in conformity
with paragraph 827 of the Austrian
military criminal law, that all work
men who are employed in factories i'm
this country which are making either
arms or ammunition for the enemies
Of your country are committing a
! crime against the military safety of
/ your fathcrland. TSlis crime Is pun
ishable by from ten to twenty years
imprisonment, and in especially ag-
gravatng circumstances with the pen
/ atty Of death. Against those who yio-
| late this order the whole weight of
! the law will be brought i'm the event of
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