The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-10-11
Secretary Lansing Reveals
Evidence Of Teuton
Duplicity.
W. B. HALE INVOLVED?
Telegram May Show Efforts
of Former Envoy to- i.
Aid Kaiser.

Lansing ldrew upon his coleceion u
secret German diplomatic correspond
ence again today to shed further nghl
upon what the German foreign o1lice
and general staff were doing In TINS
country while nominally at peace win
the United States.
He gave to the public without coii-
ment, aySusual three brief cablegraihs' |
disclosing that more than a year De-
fore submarine piracy drove America
to war, the Berlin government was m
structng Ambassador Won bernstoril
to arrange for destruction OF Canadian
railroads and to use lrish-A Americans IN
carryingl on sabotage In their own
country; they showed, too, that Berns-
torff, on his nart. was even at thal
early date seeking authority TO sup
port campaign to influence congress-
Sabotage Advisor.
OF the three men mentioned In the
messages concerning sabotage. Joseph
MacGarrsty is a prominent Irish leader
Of Philadelphia and Jeremiah OLeafv,
besides heading the American Truth
society, is editor of Bull, a pubtica-
ton recently barred from the mails as
seditious. While no one at the state
department would undertake to posi-
lively identify the John p. Heating. IT
was assumed that the man referred to
was John T. Heating of Chicago. and
that Easement did not know that he
had been dead for, several months. II
also was suggested that Easement
might have proposed these names
simply because he had met the meI1
and knew them as Irish agitators In
this country, without any corresponds
ence with theh, on the subject.
May BE viii, I'm eayard Hale.
There was no official attempt tt
identify the DR.. Hale, recommended
by Won Bernstorff AS an authority OF
the work OF the embargo conference
which so literally bombarded congress
with kilograms demanding that mum
ton shipments to the allies cease. Di
William Bayard Hale. one time envo
of President Wilson to Mexico and au
thor of a biography of the president
was in Berlin about that time as
newspaper correspondent and ap
parently was on intimate terms wit
the German government. DIR. Hale
attitude ON the embargo question
said to have strained his relations 9
the White House before he went
Ger,hanyi $50 sSs
In spite of the absence of form;
comment, administration officials d
not hesitate to discuss the latest dis
closure privately and to describe it
a natural and proper development
the whole tremendous indictme
against Germany as an information
criminal and lawless violator of Il
most elementary and generally a
cepted principles of international i
tercourse and comfy.
Telegram on Sabotage.
The telegram regarding sabota
reads:
January Is, 1916 Cor military &
tache.l You can obtain particulars
to persons suitable for carrying
sabotage in the United States and Ca
ada from the following persons, /. ]
scph MacGarrity of Philadelphia
John p. Heating of Chicago. 3. Jel
miah OLeary of New York. Nos. a
are absolutely reliable and discre
No. 3 Is reliable but not always d
Greet. These persons were indica
by Sir Roger Easement. In the Uni
states sabotage can be carried out
every kind of factory for supply
munitions of war, but railway embal
ments and bridges must not
touched. The embassy must in
circumstances be compromised
similar precautions must be taken
regard to Irish pro- German pro
ganda.'
The third telegram given out W
from Won Bernstorff to the foreign
flee and reads:
E September Is, 1916 with rcfere
to report A. N. EGG OF May 10, 19
The embargo conference, in regar,
whose earlier fruitful cooperation
Hale can give information. is
about to enter uron a vigorous C
pagn to secure a majority of
houses of congress favorable TO
many and requests further SUPP
There is no possibility of our b
COMPROMISED and l request
graphic reply"