Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1916-05-10
PLANNED INVASION OF CANADA.
Many Would Turn Against U. s. in
Case Of German Break,


This indeterminate sentence to the pen-
itentiary for bigamy by Judge Rosal-
sky, in General Sessions yesterday,
Max Lynar, better known as Count"
Max Lynar Loudon, confessed to AS
sistant District Attorney Minton that
up to last June he had been involved
IN daring plot hatched in the Uni
ted States to invade Canada with
l5O, 900 former German soldiers now
in this country.
lie insisted that $16,00O,OOO
| fund had been raised among wealthy
German n-Americans to finance the eX-
petition, and that these reservists
were even now organized and Drepar-
| ed to take UP arms against the United
States In case of trouble with Ger
nrany.
Whether his story is true or not,
for over six months Federal agents
have been trying to put Lynar n jail.
HIS statements yesterday were the
result OF an interview which he had
with Mr.. Minton few days ago. On
only one point was he unwilling to
speak. That was to give tho names
OF those who had first aprroached
him in the matter, and of those who
were to be his associates in the eype-
dition.
Plans for Invasion.
Lynar declared that because Of his
experience in both the American and
German armies he was asked TO be-
come chief Of staff of the expeditions.
one section of the expedition, he
said, was to start from Silver Creek,
N. T., with the Welland Canal and
Windmill Point as its objectves. An
other was to start from Wilson, n.
Y, for Port Hope, and third from
Watertown with Kingston, Ont, as
IT'S destination. Another was to start
from q point near Detroit, and ano-
ther was to cross the St. Lawrence at
Cornwall to march on Ottowa.
The expedition" said Lynar, was
to be made up almost entirely of men
VINO still retain their German citizen
ship. although there were a few Ger
man-Americans included. / was first
approached in the fall Of 1914 and as
was ready to do almost anything to
help the country which has my SYM
pathies, | consented to head the expe-
dition.
Secret meetings were held in
many of the Eastern cities, and ar
rangements were made for raising
to come from New York city and
Connecticut, another from Pittsburgh
and Buffalo, the third from Philadel-
phta and the fourth from Detroit and
Milwaukee. Plans were developed to
make the attack this spring.
"The divisions were to include a
regiment of artillery and one of
slarpshooters. The matters of arms
did not bother us, for any one who
has the money can buy guns and mu-
nitions in this country. Once on the
shores of Lake Erie, the ST. Lawrence
and Lake Ontario, the men were to be
taken to lonely points, where 1t would
be possible to load them into boats.
Arms and Uniforms on Boats,
Germany, you know, has topo-
graphical maps Of every country with
which there is a possibility of her
having war. These maps were to be
our guides. Ten days before the eX-
pedition was to start a message was
to be sent to every person who had
been selected as a member to proceed
to his appointed rendezvous. They
were to march to the boats on the
preteXt that they were going on a
picnic. These picnics were to be far
enough apart not to arouse suspicion
once on the water, arms and uni
forms would be found waiting. We
had accurate knowledge of the forces
at the disposal Of the Canadian gov
ernment, and there Is no doubt that
such All expedition, once started,
would have been successful"
I'm some Way-l believe it was
through woman to whom | had
talked-the British embassy got
wind Of what was going on, and one
day Burns detective met me and
took me to the Biltmore Hotel.
There | met a military attache OF the
embassy, who offered me 100000 for
my plans.
Lynar then said he ceased to be an
active member or the plotters and
became an infOrmer, saying that
through his friendship for United
States army officers he became con-
vinced that such a step would be un-
justified. He said he turned an out
line OF the plans over to l.. NJ. Garri-
son. then Secretary Of War, last June.
He continued, he declared. to associ-
ate with the plotters until last No
vember, when they became suspicious
and eliminated him from their meet
ings.
Il believe" ihc said, "that in case
OF war with Germany these same men
are prepared to take up arms for Ger
many. | myself could not do such
thing, for consider myself an Amer
lean. And l believe that 90 per cent
or the German-Americans feel the
same as do about it,
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