The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-04-17
A Fertiliser Company's Bank Ac'
count.
Secretary LANSING Of the Depart
ment Of State made the %subjOined
announcement on December 3, 1918:

ment Of State made the subjoined
announcement on December 3, 1915:
"On account Of what this Government
considers their improper activities in
military and naval matters. this Gov
eminent has requested the immediate
recall Of Captain BoY-Ep and Captain
Won PAPEN, as they are no longer ac-
ceptable to this Government
This tardy act of self.defence by
the United States Government was
followed by the publication on De-
cember 10 of II statement authorized
in Berlin, beginning thus:
The German Government naturally
has never knowingly accepted the sup.
port Of any person. group OF persons.
society Or organization seeking to pro-
mote the cause Ut Germany in the United
States by Illegal acts, by counsels OF
violence, BY contraventiou OF Law or
BY any means whatever that could Of
fend the American people in the pride OF
their own authority
The admirable specimen Of literary
composition concluded with these in
tpresting sentences:
Apparently the enemies ~ Germany
have succeeded in creating the impress
sion that the German Government, is
in some way morally or otherwise re-
spons!ble for what MIR. WILSON has char
| acterized as anti-American activities
comprehending attacks upon property
and violations Of the rules which the
| American Government has seen fit 10
impose on the course of neutral trade.
This the German Government abso'
lutely denies.
1T cannot specifically repudiate acts
has no control and OF whose movements
and intentions It is neither oficiall!
nor unonlcially informed.
ut can only say, and does most en-
| phatically declare TO Germans abroad
10 German American citizens OF the
| United States. TO the American people
all alike. that whoever Is guilty Of con
| duct tending TO associate the German
| cause with lawlessness of thought, sug.
gestlon or deed against life. property
and order in the United States Is ii
fact an enemy Of that very cause and q
source OF embarrassment to the Ger
man Government. Notwithstanding any
thing no or they may believe TO the
contrary
THE SUN. In common with nll who
have e%ndeavOred to maintain neu
trality under the distressing circum
stances Of the last eighteen months
and ~clinging to its confident belize
In the ultimate friendliness and san
ity Of the German people, accepted
this utterance In good faith. and IL
speaking Of 1t said:
THE unconquerable disposition o.
America to think well of Germany will
operate powerfully In behalf Of accept
ance Of the proclamation Of denuncia
ton [of lawless activities In the United
Statesl in cordially and good will"
We recall these Incidents In thei,
chronological order because of the in
teresting fluctuations In the bank nc
count of the New Jersey fertilizer
company which Is closely ASSOCIATED
with the efforts Of certain Germans
domiciled here to blow up ships sail
ing from this port. This account. be
gun with funds drawn from a firm
which acted-in complete propriety
we assume-as personal banker 70
Captain voH PArEH, seems to hav
acted normally from the date Of IL
establishment until about the tim
of Captain Won PApEN's recall Mt tn
request Of the United States. From
that date the d@iminution If the dc
poSit continued uninterruptedly, an
shortly after the denunclatory procln
nation Of the German Government
was uttered II engaged the attention
of the bnnk officers because 1t wa
ovcrirnwn. Tho process Of repler
ishmcnt had ceased apparently wit
the cancellation Of Won PAPEN's of