Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-02-04
.bERNST0RfF TO
SOON Be ON HIS
Way; AUSTRIAN
MAY GO ALONG

( Washington, Feb. 3.-Gernan Am
bassador Count Won Bernstorff, will
soon be on his way out Of the nation.
II also appears tonight a practical
certainty snat the Austrian ambas-
sador, Tarnowski, will be his travelling
companion-or at least will be quittine
close to BernstorfFs departure. The
Swiss minister, now handling German
affairs in America, conferred late this
afternoon with Secretary Of State Lam
sing relative to passage for the Ger
man envoy and his staff. II was q per-
picking problem. At the close Of Tho
conference, Lansing announced merely
! that passage was being arranged"
4 Bernstorff got his passports-an /,
message explaining why--shortly be.
fore o'clock this afternoon.
Lester H. Woolsey. confidential as
sistant Of Lansing. and assistant So
lcitor OF the state department, bore the
passports for the count and his staff,
thereby breaking precedent of a score
of years--that of sending Eddie Savoy,
colored messenger with such momen-
tous documents.
NOTE FROM LANSING.
With the passports went a note in
which the state department recited
submarine communications, including
Germany's pledges, and her latest SET
declaration. The note declared that:
Because of this latter pro-
nunciamento, catering her
pledges to the winds, this govern
ment has no alternative consist
ent with the dignity and honor OF
n SntN al 49,
course which it explicitly an
nounced in its note Of April Is,
1916 (the Sussex break threat) II
would take in the event that the
imperial government did not de.
clare and effect an abandonment
Of the method Of submarine war
fare then employed and to which
the imperial government now pur.
poses to resort.
Then it concluded:
THE president has therefore. al.
rected me to announce to your ex-
cellency that all diplomatic rela-
tons between the United States
and the German empire are sever
ed and that American Ambassador
Gerard at Berlin will be immed.
lately withdrawn. and on the ac-
cordance with such announcement
/ send to your excellency your
passports. I have the honor to be,
Your excellency's obedient servant
ROBERT LANSING"
RECALL OF GERARD.
During the morning the busting
state department secretly sent out on
The cables and wires a message OF re.
call to Ambassador Gerard, together
with instructions for all consuls to
cave Germany. With this messaee
vent instructions for caring for Amer.
cans in Germany-directions to notify
hem of the break and offer all possible
assistance in getting them out of Ger
many.
A fund Is available for them and
vii be opened freely for their needs.
they decide to quit. and find them
ciVes financially embarrassed.
PASSPORTS PREPARED.
While these instructions were being
prepared and dispatched, officials in a
hird floor corner of the grim. gray
tate department were preparing the
passports of Bernstorff Downstairs In
office. tho copies Of the
tote ACCOMPANYING them was prepared
or distribution.
Then about 1880. his usual lunch
our. Woolsey slipped quietly from the
uilding with the documents sealed in
big official envelope.
Eddie Savoy. the messenger who had
arried such passports for years.
obbled to escort him to the elevator.
rallied by three newspapermen. he
lade his way to an Obscure lunch
DOM. dined on beans and coffee. met
n Adler. secretary to Bernstorff. ana
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