Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-03-16
REBEL PROCLAMATlONS SENT
OUT AND SUBMARINE BASE
PROJECTED
PRESIDENT MENocAL HAD
NARROW ESCAPE FROM DEATH
Prevented After Repeat.
ed Warnings-Germans From Intern.
ed Ship Incite Rebellion and Seek
Overthrow Of Present Administra.
tion-captain Won Papen Involved.

| New York March 15.-Reports re-
ceived in this country show that the
oonspirators who sought the over
throw Of the present government of
Cuba and the assassination of Presi-
dent Menocal came very near catching
the president off guard.
| Menocal when first warned that
trouble was brewing refused to take
the warnings seriously.
The responsible officials of the
Cuban government alive to the peril
were Diaz Albertini. director general of
the department OF justice, and General
| Sanchez Asramonte. chief of police in
Havana. Their eyes were opened
when, about two months ago, several
oil drums. such as are used by the
| Germans to refuel submarines in the
Mediterranean. were washed ashore
| near the little seaport of Bahia Honda.
about fifty-five miles from Havana and
| 100 miles off the coast of Florida. An
investigation disclosed that an effort
was being made to establish a sub
| marine base near Bahia Honda, than
which spot there is, in the opinion OF
American naval officers, none better
for the purpose in the West Indies.
informed Germans Busy.
About this same time General Agra
monte and Senior Albertini received in
formation that members of the crew
Of the interned liner Bavaria. which
at the beginning of the war sought
refuge in Havana harbor, We're making
mysterious trips out Of Havana and
into the surrounding country The
same information came to President
Menocal's private secretary.
One week ago several liberal mem
bers were arrested as principals in the
| revolutionary plot, and among these
men was DR.. Luis Octavio Divini.
leader Of the liberal party. in whose
house the Cuban secret service agents
found proclamations printed in Spanish
and ready TO be distributed among the
soldiers OF the rebel forces In these
proclamations II was announced that
Germany was the friend of the rebels
and has promised to help US"
Germans from the interned ships
were detected making maps and trails
and surveys of the outlying country
and in this connection 1t can be stated
that the United States army officers
detected Germans from interned ships
at Panama engaged in similar work
along the route of the Panama Canal.
A German who gave his name as
Adolf Hue is now a prisoner at Pinar
del Rio. Hue explained that he was
making sketches to be used in a book
he contemplated writing about Cuba
Gomez Transfers Significant.
Another German suspect proved to
be one Paul Drehr, who in the days of
the Gomez presidency was one of the
close advisers OF Gomez.
When General Gomez was taken into
custody and ordered held in 81 600 coo
bail the government took steps to
sequestrate his property In various
parts of the island. and officials were
surprised when it was found that
Gomez, just before the rebellion got
under way. had transferred all Of the
property to a wealthy German suspect
resident on the island.
The Won Igel papers, seized when
the office Of the attache of the Ger
man embassy was raided by secret
service agents last year. disclose the
names of several hundred persons who
were implicated in the plot Matched in
New York to instigate rebellion against
British rule in India These persons
named are, or were, in all parts of the
United States, in Hawaii, the Philip
pines Japan. China and India
The department of justice is now in
vestigating every angle Of the big
plot in directing which, as was dis
closed in an official paper, Captain
Franz Won Papen, the dismissed Ger
man military attache, played an i'm
portant part.