The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-24
More German Plotting to be
Made Public to World Dur
ing Week by State
Department.
PROOF TO BE PRESENTED
Startling Publications With Photo.
oraphs Of Letters and Checks
Will be Used to
Convict.
[By Carl D. Groat. United Press Staff
Cnrresnnndant

lBy Carl d. Groat, UnlleQ tTesS oIaii
Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Sept. 24-Germany
will be convicted further before the
world this week on charges Of high
handed intrigues against the peace
of other nations.
With revelation over Sunday OF
Teuton bomb and poison plots IN Ru.
mania, government authorities h1nted
that it might be shown the Teutons
had tried to spread disease in Ameri.
ca as one Of her insidious means OF
hampering war work.
The plot in Rumania showed the
Teutons planted bombs in the German
legation garden at Bucharest after
the United States had taken charge
there and had also walls OF germs tc
poison horses.
Similarly the Teutons may have
spread the germs of lockjaw in court
plaster recently found In the United
States to be infected.
Whether or not such plot is dis
closed, the senate is promised an ex-
posure of treacherous German Work
In trying to stir up feeling in Japan.
viscount Ishii, now in this coun-
try with the Japanese commission,
has already hinted at such intrigue.
Senator King who Saturday showed
the Austrian embassy to have been
subsidizing some foreign language
press, has data on the Japanese plot
and will speak by the book" when
he does make his new exposure.
The government is preparing to
give out documentary evidence from
it's recent revelations in cases where
denials are made by those concerned.
1t proposes this week to make public
Photographic reproduction OF the
Eckhardt- -Cronholm-M City plot,
letter, the authenticity Of which has
been denied by the principals.
It was rumored today that the gov
ernment has additional data on the
Luxburg- Argentine case, but it is
careful to avoid any appearance Of
irving to force Argentine into action
against Germany, when its avowed
purpose in making the revelations has
been to show Sweden's duplicity and
Germany's unashamed peace propa-
ganda methods.
With the prospect OF other staSlins
publications, congress today ap'
peared to be veering away from the
demand for an investigation Of the
Bernstorff $4,000 slush fund expose.
especially as the state department
has indicated it's belief that further
investigation would not be more sue
cessful than secret probing already
done.
Germans Regret Being Exposed.
AMSTERDAM, Sept. 24.-"It is
highly regrettable that the American
government, God knows how, has
been able to obtain apparently a
whole collection of German diplo-
matte documents" declared the
Cologne Volks Zeitung today, in COM
mentiug on the Bernstorff intrigue
revealed by the Washington state
department.
"If the affair Is true,' the news
paper added. "it is of the most dis
agreeable character"
Or. Niven Denies Plotting.
CHICAGO, Sept. 24.-Dr. Maxim
Niven. analytical chemist and organ
izer of the all-American alliance, nam.
ed in the governments expose OF
German intrigue, today denied he had
ever had any dealings with Wolf
Won Igel, German agent.
my alliance is maintained strictly
by subscriptions Of its members;
know nothing Of any payment OF
$50" said Niven. "Of course among
those who came for aid were many
German Some of them
said they left munitions plants be.
cause they could not conscientiously
work there. but they were accorded
no different treatment from any one
else.
"To me in 1915 Hans Liebau OF
New York, sent a young Austrian