The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-09-24
MORE STARTLING
DISCLOSURES TO
BE MADE PUBLIC
State Department to Bare
Further Facts of Teuton
Intrigue.
u. s. MADE TOOL
OF IN GERM PLOT
Germans Buried Microbes at
Rumanian Legation
Left It to Andrews.

Washington, Sept. 24-whi1e there
is no indication of what will be the
State Departments next disclosure OF
German intrigue in America or else
where, it is known that discloures as
sensational as any yet published are
being held in reserve and may be
made at any time.
One Of the things the State Depart
ment has is a. list of persons who re-
cefved German money In the passport
frauds, the munitions plots and prac-
tically all of the other activities of
German intrigue here, which took
Aplaeo between the beginning of the
war In August, 1914, and the entry
Of the United States into the conflict.
This list Is said to contain scores.
Of names and the amounts of money
represented run very high.
From time to time the department
also probably will make public GER
tain ev1denceNo dispose of the denials
Of those who have been involved in
the disclosures already made.
The State Department made public
last night official documents revealing
q plot on the part of German diplo-
matte representatives to create an
Spl00IulC Ol duL1iId3 aio- SIhu0SI .
among Rumanian live stock and the
population itself. It was another of
the series of Mr.. Lansing's disclosures
without comment.
With eight phials Of the deadly mi
crobes found buried in the grounds of
the German Legation in Bucharest
with directions for the incubation of
horses and cattle-was uncovered a
box of high explosives sufh to
destroy public buildings, bridges, rail-
roads or other public works.
The information was communicated
to the State Department in a message
dated February 9, 1917, by William
Whiting Andrews, Charge d'Anaires
ad- Interim of the American Legation
in Rurnania, which at the time of the
disclosures had taken over the inter
ests Of the German Government In
Rumania Mr.. Andrews personally
was present at the exhumation Of the
microbes. and explosives and had 8
part in the Interrogation of caretakers
at the German Legation, who admitted
buryfng the boxes, at the direction Of
officials of the German Legation. Hs
also obtained an admission from the
former confidential agent Of the Ger.
man Minister, DR.. Bernhardt, that ht
knew Of the presence Of the microbes
and explosives.
The confidential. agent also insinu.
ated that had the investigation pro.
ceeded further still worse things thar
microbes would have been found ir
| the cabiNets of douments which Mr.
! Andrews had sealed. DIR. Bernhardi
added that az of the objects had beer
| transferred to the German Legation
after the American legation had taker
over the protection Of German inter.
ests.
.The protection of the United States
was in this way shameful1y abused
and exploited" said Mr.. Andrews. "II
this case at least, the German govern
ment cannot have recourse to its
usual system Of denial
Mr.. Andrews included with his com.
munication to the State Department q
formal protest from M. Poumbaru
the Rumanian Foreign Minister, and
eight official documents attesting to
the results of examinations made Of
| the contents of the boxes.
s"The Royal government makes it Its
duty to protest against these criminal
practices" said the Foreign Minister,
| "and especially against the use OF mi
crobes, an Illegal weapon and GER
tainly worse than poison, the use OF
which was formally forbidden by the
fourth convention of The Hague, as
well as against this violation of the
duties and of the loyalty which inter
national obligation imposes upon
Diplomatic missions as an exchange
for the privilege which are suaran-
teed them"
| The Rumanian officials were able tc
trace the manner in which the objects
of frightfulness were smuggled into
the country and to determine the Of
hcials involved The microbes and ex-
plosives were brought into the country
| by diplomatic couriers while Ruman1e
and German still were at peace ano
were stored in the German consulate
at Bucharest Before an opportunity
had been presented for their use Ru'
mania. declared war. The day before
the declaration the boxes and parcels
were transferred to the German lega-
! ton. It was noticed by the Ruman1aI
authorities that when the German le'
cation departed the mysterious boxes
and parcels were not taken. Investl'
cation disclosed that the caretaker anc
another servant of the legation hao
buried the boxes at the direction .ane
with the assistance Of Ilucian Adolpn
an attache of the legation; Werner vor
Rheinbaben, counselor, and Rudolph
/ Kruger, chancellor of the 1egation,no
attached to the American legation
Excavations were made by the Ru
manian autorities in the presence ol
Mr.. Andrews which the Rumanian Tor
eign minister describes as follows:
"'The researches led to the discover!
of % SO fuses 'Bickford' each two
meters long, each of them provided
with a percussion cap made of twf
/ grams of illuminate of mercury; (2) 81
boxes containing each one cartridg'
enveIoped in tin with a German labe
on it and filled with one kilogram OF {
substance which after being anaIyzet
was found to be ftrinitroto1uens' satur
ated with srnononitroluens. that is t.
say, so cartridges containing in all 81
Kilograms Of the said material ant
fContfnuad on Pare aTWo,l