Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-09-24
MORE CRININALITY
Of GERMANS REVEALED
p.ub, And Deadly Microbes Sent
Into Roumania
uor7IGG AT BUCHAREST Barred
c...,ors Believe Inquiry Would be Un-
likely to Uncover Attempts to
influence Congress


,.s.,o the National capital had found
- recover from the amazing
IL .v of German intrigue disclosed in
~. .ovsrument's publication yester-
~ W. corning Of the activities of Count
RsrDstorR and Wolf von Igel, q
W csapter Of German eriminality Y
-, ~ revealed when Secretary Lansing
80 npDlic documentary evidence of
@iot NJ German military and diplo.
natic agents to use deadly microbes
anJ powerfuI explosives against Ku-
mania.
nenartment shows that before Ru-
yepis had declared war against Aus
.,ia.Hungary. and was observing strict
-sntralirv. German official agents clan.
Sestinely introduced into Bucharest,
,bs capital of Rumania, packages con.
raining explosives powerful enough 20
wreck public works and phials contain
no deadly microbes destined to infect
donestic animals and susceptible of
0rovoking terrible epidemics among
he human population of the country.
The phials contained anthrax microbes
and the bacilli of CHAMBERS.
IN. Rumanan Government is salts
fed from its evidence that in time of
neace members OF the German Lega-
tiop. covered by their immunity, pre-
narei in concert with the Bulgarian
Legation the preparation on the ter
ritorv OF a neutral and friendly State
Of plots directed against the safety of
this State and against the lives of it's
subjects.
After ts discovery of the plot the
Rumanian Government called in Will
lam Whiting Andrews. the Charge
gAffaires of the American Legation
Al Bucharest, who witnessed the Dig
eing up of the boxes of explosives and
the packages containing the phials of
microbes from the grounds of the Ger
man Legation, to which they had been
secretly moved from the German
Consulate IN Bucharest on the eve of
Rumauiss declaration of war.
The explosives and microbes had
been sent into Rumania secretly by
German di qomatie eouriers and hid
den in the Consulate while Rumania
was at peace.
There is little chance of Congress
ional investigation of German plots
unless specific evidence is presented
against members of the Senate or
House Several Senators VINO consent.
ed to discuss the situation brought on
by the recent remarks of Representa-
tive iieain of Alabama, were all op-
posed to an inquiry being made at this
time.
There was some resentment apparent
against the intimation by the Congress-
man from Alabama that a dozen or
more of the legislators probably and
engaged 10 anti-war activities for
self-adgsntage, but it was felt that an
error would be made If an investiga-
tiOn we're ordered because of this kind
Of suspicion.
II is probable that Senator Overman,
Of North Carolina, Chairman of the
Senate's Special Lobby Committee,
will call on Secretary Of State Lans-
ing todsy to obtain the viewpoint of
the State DEPARTMENT, and it is gener-
ally believed that Mr. Lansing will op-
pose an inquiry now. Several off,
cials, il is said, feel that an investigat-
ing committee not only would find
nothing worthy of discussion. but
would provide Germany with an excuse
for published statements that the Gov
ernment was suspicious of its own
Legislators and had founo it necessary
to examine them.
As yet the special lobby committee
has not been called together, and both
branches Of Congress are moving
slowly in order, as far as possible, to
avoid sll bitterness and unfortunate
discussion which might feature direct
steps leading to sn investigation.