The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-09-27
SHAMEFULLY ABUSE.
GIVEN
DoINGs OF GERMANS IN UNITED
STATES DURING AUGUST,
1916.
Powerful Explosives and Microbes
Secreted on Legation at Bucharest
TOR Destructive Use in United States
Of Lives and Property.

OF Lives and Property.
washington. = How Germany
shamefully abused and exploited
the protection of the United States
by secreting in the German legation
at BUCHAREST after the American gov
eminent had taken charge of Ger
many's affairs at the Rumanian can
1taI' quantities of powerful explosives
Tor bomb plots and deadly microbes,
with instructions for their use in de-
stroying horses and cattle, was re-
Vealed by Secretary Lansing,
1t was another of Mr.. Lansing's Sc
rles OF disclosures of German intrigue.
made public without comment in the
same manner as the Won Luxburg tel
egrams which have brought Argen-
tina on the verge of war with Ger
many, the Won Eckhardt letter from
Mexico City, and the Won Bernstorff
telegram asking the German foreign
on1ce for authorization to spend $50.
600 to influence Congress.
The latest story is told in a report
TO the state department from William
Whiting Andrews secretary of the le-
letter
from Foreign Minister Parumbaru. of |
Rumania.
Suspicious Aroused. /
Parcels and boxes taken into the
German consulate at Bucharest with
display OF great precaution aroused l.
the suspicious of the Rumanian gov
eminent. On August 27, 1916, the |,
evening prior to the date of Rumania's
declaration Of war, some of the cases
were taken to the German legation,
located in a different building from
the consulate. Convinced that the
boxes. were not taken away from the
legation by the German diplomatic I
mission on its departure from Buch-
Arrest, the Rumanian authorities later =
ordered the police tofind and examine
their contents. The police communi- p
Gated with American Minister Pop r
cka, then in charge of German inter-
ssts, who reluctantly assigned Secre- Il
AIRY Andrews to observe the search II
The boxes were found buried in the o
garden of the German legation.
Mr.. Andrews report says:
upon my return from the exami-
lation which resulted in the discovery n
f the explosives and the box of mi vr
robes, both of which the legation SER of
ants admitted having placed in the th
arden, the former confidential agent m
f the German minister DR.. Bern
radt, who had been left with the le-
alton at the German minister's re- oil
uest to assist in the care of the Ger l"
Ian interests, admitted his knowledge un
> ~ ovn1os;vo. r1oood Ia 80 oa, La
en-; told me that more were in the LIN
arden than had been found, that a
ill larger quantity had been buried WI
the house of the legation and that no
i'll worse things than this box of mi IN
'obes were contained in the legation, an
Id insinuated that they would have pu
zen found even in the cabinets Of en-
,ssiers which had sealed. no
CDR. Bernhard also stated that all inf
lese objects had been brought to the d.
erman legation after our legation wa
i'd accepted the protection Of Ger ma
an interests, which agreed with the anc
atement of the servants. A SINH sus
r confession was made to the min 7
ter by this man. knc
1.-THE protection of the United States yes
as in this manner shamefulTy abused anc
ID exploited. In this instance, at ind
ast, the German government cannot Ger
We recourse to it's usual system of plot
NAL"
Fifty-one boxes were taken from
9 ground in the garden. Fifty of "a
em contained each a cartridge filled n'i.
- - ~.-.t~Ats1uo,a ao+,,ro+od 1,f+b chat
Ia -. 1900 49, roo.+ fore
werful explosives known, one fifth in.-l
each being sufficient to tear up Ii
lroad tract In the other box were sena
tiles of liquid found to be cultiva- Sens
MS of the microbes of anthrax and SIS
nders It bore seal showing it OUR!
ne from the German consulate at In
3nstadt. Hungary, and inside were Utah
nd a typewriter note in German prob
ing: OF Il
For Horses and Cattle. the
Enclosed four phials for horses and show
r for cattle. To be employed as the
nerly arranged. Each phia1 is suf provi
mt for 200 head. To be introduc- Germ
If possible, directly into the ami lishfn
q threats: If not, in their fodder. In
use make a little report on the to til
.ess obtained there; in case OF belle,
4 results the presence OF Mr.. Kos it Wi
for one day here would be degar. to de,
/. Austr
,reign Minister PorumbAru accona. The
ed his letter with documents 20 exeha