Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-02-10
OTTIMWA WAPELLO COUNTY,
ALIEN CONSULS
ARE INDICTED BY
FEDERAL JURORS


GALS CHARGED WITH NEU.
TRALlTY VIOLATIONS.
San Francisco, Feb. 9.--Fifty.nine
federal Observation-Disclosures charg.
ing violations Of American neutrality,
directed against German consular Of.
flcials here, the Turkish consul gen.
eral and steamship agents, and
twenty-seven against immigration Of.
ficials in connection with the at
tempted smuggling Of eighty-six Chi
nese into the United States last No
vember-were in the possession to-
day of the United States district at
torney's ONCE. 1t was said they
would be returned in open court to-
morrow when arrests would follow.
The indictments against the Ger
man consular officials. who include
Franz Bopp, the consul general, were
voted yesterday by the federal grand
Jury as result of the nation wide in
vestigation by the department Of JUS
tice into bomb plots and neutrality
violations which involved interference
with shipments of war munitions to
the allied governments and the fur
nishing of coal and supplies to Ger
man warships in the Pacific.
The indictments are the first the
government has attempted to obtain
against Official representatives of any
foreign power In conaection with its
efforts to curtail the activities of per-
sons engaged in the alleged plots.
The indictments voted against i'm
migration officials and steamship men
followed a searching inquiry into re-
ports that a wholesale traffic in con-
traband aliens was being carried on
with the help of steamship officers
and the connivance of federal officials.
Surprise at Number.
While the indictments against the
consular officials were not unexpected
here, some surprise was manifested
today over the large number Of true
bills. which indicated, it was said, that
/ the government had completed the
San Francisco investigation of the
conspiracy plots. The following
were among those against whom in
dictments were voted:
Frank Bopp, consul general of Ger.
many; Baron e. H. von Setback, vice
consul for Germany; H. w. e. Kauf.
mann, chancellor for the German con.
sulate;. Maurice H. Hall, consul gen.
eral for Turkey; Frederick Jebsen,
former owner Of the steamer Mazat.
Ian; Johannes H. van Koolbergen al
legged agent for the German consul
late; John and julius Rothchilth
wholesale grocers; George and James
Flood, steamship agents, and Robert
Capelle, general agent of the North
German-Lloyd Steamship Co.
BOSTON BASE FOR PLOTTERs.
Boston, Feb. 9.-Federal authorities
were engaged today with reports that
Boston was being used by German
sympathizers as base for the direc-
ton of hostile activities in Canada.
1t was admitted by government en-
ploye that typewriter copies were
made of dictagraph records alleged
to have been obtained at meeting
place of men under suspicion. This
admission was coupled withsthe assur-
ance that it would be denied if the
identity of the author was made public
According to the reports which led
to the admission regarding the dicta-
graph records, the movements Of
about 100 men have been watched
with the result that a dictagraph was
installed in a Milk street Office to de.
termine if any of these men were con.
spring to commit or influence the
commission Of acts of war against
Canada.
George w. Anderson, United States
attorney, went to Washington on Mon
day. Yesterday Edmund Billings
collector of the port, followed Mr.. An
derson to the capital. Their local Of
fees would not disclose the nature OF
their missions.