New Britain herald., 1915-09-22
DUMBA TERMS WILSON SELF
 YELLED" AND RAPS LANSING
Letters Found in Possession of Archibald Made Public Captain Von Papen Calls Us "Idiotc
 Yankees"


 to this action.
 Delayed Note to England.
 "As for the note of protest against British interference with shipping which has so often been postponed. I learn that the issue is delayed in con- sequence of the imminent declaration of cotton as contraband. The feeling which obtains amongst the great American importers was accurately represented in MT. Meagher's, (Mee- ker ) speech. Meagher is one of the principal exporters of the United States, for he is a partner in the Chicago firm of Armour & Co.,, who, with the firm of Swift, control the meat market of the whole western hemisphere.
 "Mr. Meagher whom I recently met on yacht and whose acquaintance I had already made in Chicago, abso- lutely regards England's acts as arbi- trary. No fewer than thirty-one ships with meat and bacon, shipments of his firm for Sweden, valued at $19,- 100000 have been detained in English ports for months under suspicion that they ultimately are intended for Ger many.
 "The negotiations are being so long drawn out because MT. Meagher and his companions will not accept lame compromise but insist on full com pensation or the reelase of the con- signments, in which the bacon may be still sound.
 Played Last Trump.
 My informant further gave me to understand he has not yet played his last trump, namely a refusal to inn port meat to England under any cir cumstances. He-that is to say the above named slaughter house-con- tro1s the Argentine market. At the present moment they are paraylzed here also by the action of the British admiralty for the latter has com mandeered most of theI English freight ships intended to transport meat from Argentine.
 "If England stood face to face with the danger of not being able to get any meat from the United States or Argentine she would soon give in.
 What the imme ediate result here of making cotton contraband will be hard to say. The anger of those in- terested in cotton will be enormously increased, but on the other hand, the feared threatened confiscation may make the leaders of the cotton trust so yielding that they, against their better Judgment, may agree to the sale of the greater part of the present supply en bloc to England, who would be in a position in the future to control the whole cotton market. and on peace being declared to force on the whole world this essential raw material.
 "C. DUMBA."
 Captain Won Papen's Letter. The letter from Captain Won Papen, the military attache of the German embassy, addressed to his wife and l describing the stealing of a portfolio from Heinrich Albert, commercial at- tache of the German embassy at Washington on an elevated railroad train in New York, says:
 You can imagine the sensation | among the Americans. Unfortunately, | report are among them such as buy ing of liquid chlorine, and about the | Bridgeport projectile company, as well as documents regarding the buy ing up of phenol, from (which ex- rlosives are made, and the acquisition of Wright's aeroplane patent.
 May Be Last Straw.
 But things like that must occur. 1 It seems quite likely that we will | meet again soon. The sinking of the Adriatic (sic) may we'll be the last straw. I hope in our interests the danger will blow over. How splendid of the eastern front.
 T always say to these idiotic Yankees that they had better hold their tongues. It is better to look at all this heroism with full admiration. My friends in the army are quite different in this way"
 Count Won Bernstorff' letter to | Secretary Lansing dated Cedarhurst, August IS, reads in part:
 Refers to British Piracy.
 Even if Germany and Austria Hungary had hoped that the prohibi- ton of exports would result in and that the behavior of Great Britain, who contrary to international law, has snatched for herself control