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Evening star., 1917-09-23
Demands Mrs. Kings Effects.

Solicitor Clement and Mr.. Ambrose
returned this evening to Salisbury, and
will come to Concord again tomorrow.
Refore leaving Mr. Clement made an
other demand of CASTOR Means that the
effects of Mrs. King be surrendered.
but failed to procure them. The So
licitor made no comment as to what
further steps, if any, would be taken
to procure them.
The belief that n second automobile
was following the Means car on the
night of the drive to BlackW elder
Spring is growing stronger. 1t was at
first told as a rumor: the rumor grew
stronger. and now it seems almost a
certainty. Mr.. Ambrose this afternoon
asked Capt. Bingham if he had seen the
second car when he was in the automo-
bile party on the tragic night. and the
said he was pretty sure he did
When MIR. Ambrose was questioned by
a reporter as to whether or not there
was really another car. he replied. tina t
the occupants, he replied, with smile
Wait until the trial
Mr. Doo1ing. when asked on his re-
he found anything of Importance there.
replied that they had found things
very satisfactory" He further made
the statement that he is here in an un-
official capacity, and simply to render
whatever assistance he can from the
New York Office to help the offlcia of
North Carolina to cleac up the mystery
of the woman from New York city.
1t Is his desire TO stay in the ba ok
ground, and he will take no part in
tho hearing Monday
Evening star., 1917-09-23
Y. M. c. A. Work Progressing.

Within few days the y. NJ C. A.
work at the camp will be well under
way. Five big buildings are rearing
their roofs above the camp fields and
in them the work of the association
will be carried on. Gen. Morton has
interested himself in the development
of the movement here and was person
ally rsponsibie for the fact that these
five buildings and number of smaller
ones will be completed in less than two
weeks time after they We're started.
The structures are to be 40X113 feet
and they will be suitable for the hold
ing Of moving picture shows and other
entertainments. The smaller buildings
include a garage, administration build
ing and storerooms- Two outdoor
stages are also 70 be erected.
4 group of forty workers are here
70 conduct the y. NJ. g A. work anon &
the soldiers. The five departments
through which the work in the camp
will be conducted are the religious.
physical. educational. social and busi-
ness branches. Entertainments are al
reads being planned and lessons in
French are to be established.
Evening star., 1917-09-23
HAD NO PART IN Won IGEL PLOTS.
COHALAN AND VIERECK DECLARE

been established by our government. My
action. therefore. implies no discredit to
me. Between Germany and the United
States there could be only one choice for
motto also: America first and America
only But I do not surrender the right
OF free speech. Criticism is not merely q
civic right, but a civic duty. l did not
the country Is in it I hope that she will
come out of it with honor-the sooner tho
better"
Says Plotters Hoodwinked Him.
CHICAGO. September 22.-Jasper T.
American embargo conference. aroused
by the revelations made by the State
Department regarding former Ambas-
sador Won Bernstorff. in a signed state
ment today said he was convinced that
he had been made the tool Of German
Ilotters.
Mr.. Darling, long prominent in g. A.
r. circles, said that he was convinced
that he was selected and misled by the
plotters because Of his reputation for
Of money was always mystery to
him and that great deal of it passed
through his hands in opposing the ex-
port of munitions and other acts
which he feared would draw the Unit
ed States into the war.
Mr. Darling's statement says that he
feared to see the United States drawn
into the conflict because of her notorf-
Gus unpreparedness.
II felt 1t would be almost suicidal
were we to allow ourselves to be drawn
into the conflict" says the statement.
II had no suspicion of propaganda at
the time"
Verbally amplifying his statement.
Mr. Darling said that Justin Jacobson.
now under indictment with others for
fomenting revolution in India. was the
main collector of money.
we were usually hard up" he said.
but whenever things got too bad
money was always forthcoming from
somewhere. We had credit for more
than $4,000 for kilograms to congress
men. Our financial credit warranted no
such credit. Doubtless the telegraph
companies can explain that. I under
stand government agents have gone
over the Do9ks OF TN sne with
German propaganda, but II a closer
scrutiny is desired I am eager to help"
Evening star., 1917-09-23
Everybody Goes to School.

II is an interesting sight in this big
camp to see every one studying The
instruction work is not confined TO the
enlisted men. Every one from the brig
adler generals down to the privates in
The ranks are doing it. Glasses for
every grade of officers and men are
under way and the encampment. with
the arrival of the last of the contribut-
ing units, will resemble vast univer-
sity in military science.
A series had been designed to cover
practically every field of army admin
istration and routine and some of the
officers who will speak and the sub
iects of their lectures are Mai. J. A.
Ulio division adjutant, "Administra-
ton" September 20; Maj. r. II. Kelly.
division inspector general, lnSpec-
lions" September 90: Lieut.. Col Bas-
kettle division quartermaster. supply
OF n Division. october 3: Lieut.. COL
Snyder. camp surgeon, Sanitary and
IedicaI Service" October s: Mai. John
PsHin. division judge adNoeate. courts,
martial" october 10. Gen. Morton and
his chief of staff, Lieut.. Col. George
5 Goodale. will also address the meet
ingS this week
Incoming artillery units are glad
dened by the fact that the boys of the
battery detachments that were sent
down here from the various states sew
eral weeks ago have their res espectlve
camp sites almost entirely PREPARED for
their advent. The District of Columbia
they came in this week, for Capt Nogt
OF A Battery had certainly cleared the
way for them to be comfortable.
Boys having any trouble with their
teeth will soon be able to get treatm tent
here Lieut.. Minot L. Scott of the Dis
trict of Columbia has been detailed here
for the purpose of organizing a dental
corps from all of the officers of that
branch of the service now here There
are a large number. of them, and it is
with a view to gathering them under
one head that the organization will he
effected
Evening star., 1917-09-23
Part in Irish Revolt.

Several lines of communication be-
tween the German diplomatic service
and the Irish revolutionary movement
are indicated in the captured docu-
mentS. John Dewey of New York city
now editor of the Gaelic American, a
violent antl-British paper. was one of
the active agents of this connection
Significant entries appear here and
there: references to messages from the
German embassy at Washington and
the German consulate at New York
mention OF a secret code TO be EMPLOY
ed in communicating with him and of a
CIPHER Devoy'; also a notation the de-
tails OF which remain undiscovered con-
corning communication re manufacture
hand grenades. Dewey it was who acted
Tor a time at least, as go-between for
the German secret service dealings with
Sir Roger Easement, executed by the
British for treason. There are several
references to money and messages for
SIR Roger Easement, or, more briefly.
r. G, and one record of check for
$1,000 for Easement, evidently handled
by Dewey.
Devoy's intimate connection with the
German cause is disclosed in two let
ters to Ambassador Won Bernstorff. the
texts of which follow.
Evening star., 1917-09-23
200 Men Needed.

Complete compilation of the nu-
merical strength of the state forces
Contributing to the Goth Division shows
that there are not men enough Tor the
organization of Il fun division. and 10
close in the discrepancies requests have
already been made to the commandant
at Camp Lee, Va. for zoo drafted men
to round out this division organization.
IT is not known from what state the
men sent here will come. but 1t Is
likely that they will be Nirginians.
Perhaps the most Interesting phase OF
the camp life just now centerS about
the camp of the artillery brigade. Hun
dreds OF cavalrymen. infantrymen. sig
nalmeu and artiilerymen are being
shaped into real brigade of artillery.
The transition from cavalry to artillery
IS not so noticeable as that from signal
men. The LIST Company of Virginia
Signal Corps has been designated for
transfer TO the artillery and the men
have already been put under command
of Gen. Rafferty,. The fact that New
Jerseys two companies and the one
from the District of Columbia rounded
out a complete battalion Of Signal
Corps. all that is provided for IN the
tables of organization, compelled the
Tirginians TO be utilized for other arms
of the work.
Evening star., 1917-09-23
Swedish Friends of Peace.

From the Swedish Friends of Peace"
came on october /, 1915. and shortly
thereafter. thousands of printed letters
from various cities. all signed by pas
tors of Swedish churches, asking that
the country be kept from war. and that
a court of arbitration he called into
being to handle international troubles
Furthermore. in March. 1916, the mails
were laden with hundreds Of thousands
OF printed form letters addressed to
every member of the House committee
on foreign affairs. asking that an en-
barge be placed on the shipment of
munitions abroad. All of these letters
We're alike. they were evidently all
printed at once. They have blank lines
in which to insert the name of the
of Congress. and the name and
address of the writer. They were evil
IDENTIFY carefully circulated in the dis
tricts of the members of the foreign
affairs committee.
Evening star., 1917-09-23
BLIND, MANNED, HALT,
TO Be USED BY GERMANY
New Units to Be Created for Front.
More Belgians Are
Deported.

AMSTERDAM. September 22-The
newspaper Les Nouvelles of Maastricht
announces that twenty-five per cent
of the German troops garrisoning Bel
gium have been recalled, the German
authorities proposing to use these
blind. MANNED and halt" for the re-
creation of new units for the fighting
front.
II adds that the Germans have de-
stroyed completely the Cockerville steel
plant, removing the buildings and
blowing up the blast furnaces
Several other plants have been de-
stroyed. and il Is believed the same
fate awaits all Belgian factories Mayor
Gustaye Drassenster, II adds has been
deported to Germany for protesting
against the destruction
The resumption of the deportation
of all males between seventeen and
forty-fve from the city of Mona. Bel
GUM. is reported by Les Nouvelles OF
Maastricht Some have been trans
ported TO Germany, while others were
sent to work behind the lines In France
Evening star., 1917-09-23
Persuaded to Leave Factories.

The following representations on be-
half of the bureaus efficiency were made,
under date of March "a, 1916, in a letter
to the German ambassador, Won Bern
storff
Engineers and persons in the better
class of positions and who had means of
their own, were persuaded by the prop
aganda of the bureau to leave war mate
rial factories
The report comments with unconcealed
amusement upon the fact that munitions
concerns lnnocently wrote the bureau for
Workmen (Which. of course were not
laDor conditions in the munitions indus
try:
The commercial employment bureaus
OF the country have no supply of unem-
pioyed technicians ." Many disturb
ahces and suspensions which war ma
terlal factories have had to suffer and
which ii was not always possible to re-
move quickly. but which. on the contrary.
OFTEN lead TO long strikes. may be attrib-
uted to the energetic propa ganda of the
employment bureau"
Won 1gers close connection with the
enterprise is indicated by a number of
items For example. there is a notation
TO the effect that II. Hanson had estab-
ished Iiebau branch office in Detroit
an entry of $50 paid to a DIR. Max Niven
OF chicago. in February. 1915, for the ia :
Dor fund and an inquiry addressed by a
bureau official to Won Igel. asking whether
the Bosch magnetic works manufactured
fuses for shells. the bureau having evil
dently been applied to for workmen for
the Bosch plant. The reply. in the mega
tive. stated that the company was uni
versally known for its friendly attitude
Tor the Germans
Evening star., 1917-09-23
Lessons Learned From Allies.

American troops will enter the
trenches equipped and organized in a
way that no other army engaged in the
war has been able to provide. Every
lesson learned by the allies has been
adopted promptly and the overseas
units viii be supplied with every
weapon found useful.
The tables published yesterday fix an
infantry pla toon the operating unit
1t will be composed of tifty-eisht en-
listed men under lieutenant. The old
days of the solid company ranks OF
men, with rifles on their shoulders and
bayonets at their belts. are gone. III
each platoon there will be section OF
twenty-five bomhers and rifle grena-
diers, two sections of twenty-four rifle
men-all of them trained marksmen
and the only survival of the old infan-
tryman-and one section of eleven
auto-riiemen. who will handle the light
machine guns or the automatic shoul-
der rifles that may be developed.
This means that there will be four
light machine guns on the line for
mental and divisional machine gun bat
talions and companies armed with the
heavy, water-cooled weapons that are
the real first line of defense in trench
warfare.
The use of trench knives supplants
the old rife and bayonet for 40 men in
each company Of 25e. These terrible
weapons are long. keen knives, with
nedNS metal nlltS, worn strapped to the
left arm, and are made for use in trench
raids by men who cannot he incum-
bered with rifles and bayonets because
of their special duties.
Each company of an infantry regi-
ment will have four of these typical
platoons and each regiment will have
103 officers and 1852 men. one section
of the headquarters company being
armed with three one-pounder guns.
Each regimental machine gun company
will carry twelve heavy guns and four
reserve weapons
The headquarters company will be the
largest unit in the regiment having
seven officers and 2ai men. In addition
to the one-pounder section, there will
be a signal platoon with a special
trench telephone detachment Sappers
and bombers section and a platoon of
pioneers for regimental engineering
work
The strength of the tactical unit. tn
infantry division, has undergone a
change. having been increased from
$4,000. the old typical European di-
vision, to 21.152 men of all arms. Its
structure remains the same with four
infantry regiments. divided into two
brigades an artillery brigade of three
regiments and trench mortar battery.
a regiment of engineers. field signal
battalion, and the headquarters, am
munition. supply engineer and sani-
tary trains. In the divisional and bat
TALON organizations. also. provision is
made for an additional heavy machine
gun battalion, making a total of four
teen machine gun companies of this
type to the division, or 16S active and
56 spare guns.
Evening star., 1917-09-23
Senate Takes Up Webb Bill.

The Senate yesterday took up for
the Webb bill to permit
combination of exporters to expand
American commerce.. Senator Pomerene
contended that the bill was a war
measure in sense and should pass.
Senator Reed Of Missouri opposed the
bill After some perfunctory debate II
went over until this. week.
Evening star., 1917-09-23
Why U. S. Was Blamed.

In view of the involvement of rhes.
prominent Irish-American leaders in
the Easement plot and its German rami-
fcations, it is little to be wondered a.
that they should have endeavored 10
shoulder upon the American govern
ment the responsibility for the arrest
of Easement. The Gaelic American Da-
voy's paper, and the sympathetic Ger
man-American press charged this gov
ernment with having. on the strength
of information obtained from the seized
Won lge1 papers. advised the British
government of the revolutionary ploi
and Easements part therein.
The Department of State and the De-
partment of justice promptly refuted
the charges. w hen the Won Igel papers
were seized in New York the district
attorney and his assistants buised them
selves in search for Information TO
sustain the indictments which they had
obtained against Won Isel. and over
looked for the time being the great
mass of other evidence which pointcd
to others
Department of justice officials admit
that the papers relating to Easement
were sent to Washington the night be-
fore Easements arrest was reported
but they We're not received by the At
torney General until the afternoon of
the day upon which the British au-
thorities picked up the Irish leader. and
We're not presented to the State Depart
ment until : O'Clock that evening
Meanwhile. Easement had spent several
hours In an Irish prison
Evening star., 1917-09-23
DR.. Graves, Alleged Spy, Interned.

KANSAS CITY. Mo. September 22-
The internment of DR.. Karl Armgaard
Graves, claiming to be the kaiser's per-
sonal spy. was ordered today in teIe-
gram to federal authorities from Attor-
ney General Gregory. He was taken to
the federal prison at Leavenworth. Kan.
where he will be confined for the dura-
tion Of the war.
Evening star., 1917-09-23
GERMANS LEAVE CHINA.
Party, Including Austro- Hungarian
Minister. Coming by Way of Frisco

SHANGHAI, China. September 22.-
Twenty-nine Austrians. including Dr. A.
Won Rosthorn, the Austro- Hungarian min
lister to China. and twenty-niEe Germans,
including H. Knipping. the German consul
general at Shanghai. have sailed from this
port for home by way of San Francisco.
Evening star., 1917-09-23
Means Brother Arrives.

Alton Means. brother of CASTOR B.
Means. arrived this morning from New
York. in company with Henry Deitsch,
his fatherin-
At IL o'clock tonight, after CASTOR
p. Means had attended conference
with his attorneys, he was placed in
the Cabarrus county Jail by Sheriff
Caldwell. Ever since the warrant was
served on him shortly before o'clock
this afternoon he had been in the GUS
tody of the sheriff until the latter's
attorneys conferred over the case
Judge Osborne and Attorney Cansler
left late tonight for their homes in
Charlotte.
Evening star., 1917-09-23
Letters to German Ambassador.
NEW YORK. April 8 1915

NEW YORK, April s, 1916.
The following communications from
confidential man. John Dewey, was duly
transmitted:
Letter dated March % DELAYED by
censor. seems conclusive that first mes
senger arrived safe with proposal to
send supplies and that cable was sup
pressed. Second also safe. Third, with
change of plans. due about April I5.r
John Dewey further requests that the
following telegram be dispatched to Sir
Roger Easement:
No letter now possible. All funds
sent home. Sister and Ms family
we'll"
Should Sir Roger be absent or in
then ]. d. requests that the telegram
be delivered to John Monteith
(Signed) kN CT
To His Excellency
The Imperial Ambassdar.
Count Won Bernstorf
Washington, D. =
Evening star., 1917-09-23

hoped to adjourn the Senate immediate
ly after assembling. but had given way
to the Webb bill, and 1t was generally
understood that the Bernstorn revela-
tions would not como up for discussion
until tomorrow.
Ono Of the letters presented by Sena-
tor King was dated from the Austrian
by 2. Zwiedinek as charge d'affairs.
labelled CONFIDENTIAL" and referring to
tho ''i1Iustravi list" was addressed to
the Austrian consulate general at New
York. and read:
with regard to the motives cited in
the above report for the benefit of Mr.
RADICAL, the imperial and royal en-
bassy feels to be induced to subsidize
the I'll list for February and March
with 800 each for each month
Should Mr.. Radocaj il not be able to be
come self sustaining by April 1. the EN-
bassy would be eventually willing I,
advise him 800 per month up to July
Of this year. Before. however. the latter
Radical. corresponding inquiries should
be made regarding his further results
and his financial condition.
"A further support of the ill list
from April / should be possible on the
ground that the plan for the fusion OF
the Coatian papers referred to is
meeting with unexpected difficulties"
Deals With Rumanian Paper.
Another letter from Baron Zwiedinek
dated at Lenox. Mass. the summer en-
bassy site. on September 2s. 1915.
marked confidential and dealing with
the Rumanian newspaper Desteaptat
Romano, purported to transmit check
for s400 to the Austrian consul gen.
eral at New York and asked receipt
for 5000 supplementary.
A letter dated at New York November
5. 1915. purporting to be signed by one
"Rizweidowski" as Austrian consul
general and addressed to the Wash
fngton embassy, dealing with the sub
ject Telegram Codzienny subvention.
read
II beg to inform you that the subsidy
Of 500 granted some time ago to the
proprietor of the Polish paper Tele-
gram Codzienny has already been paid
to him in full.
Telegram Codzienny fulfilled all that
has been expected of 1t. The paper is
being printed at present on six pages
and in 10000 copies daily. AS the num-
ber OF advertisements has already in
creased. the financial condition of the
paper improved so that it already has
a solid foundation.
THE paper is being published by the
proprietor. w. Mazur. with great care
for which reason its political influence
is becoming always greater. Two com
petition papers established by Russo
phileS both ceased to exist
Evening star., 1917-09-23
To Assist Prosecution.

RALEIGH, n. c., September 22-At-
torney General James S. Manning an
nounced tonight that he would go to
Concord this evening to assist and con-
fer with Solicitor Hayden Clement in
the murder charge against
Casten r. Means.
Evening star., 1917-09-23

prosecutor, aided by c. B. Ambrose. who
is on leave from the Department OF Jus
tice,