Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1917-10-06
GERMANY ABUSED
US. PROTECTION
Secretary Lansing Reveals
New Plots.
TEuTOh MINISTER ADMITS ALL
Beereted Powerful Explosives and
Deadly Microbes In Bucharest Lega.
tlon, Secretary Reveals In New Dis.
cloe,rae

Deadly Microbes In Bucharest Lega-
lon,secretary Reveals In New Dis.
closures.
How Germany "shamefully abused
and exploited" protection Of the Unit
ID States by secreting in the German
legation at Bucharest, after the Amer
lean government had taken charge Of
Germans affairs at the Rumanian
capital quantities Of powerful explo.
sives for bomb plots and deadly mi
crobes. with instructions for their use
In destroying horses and cattle, was
revealed by Secretary Lansing.
This story Is told in n report to the
state department from William Whit
Ing Andrews, secretary Of the legation
at Bucharest, and a letter from for.
eign Minister Porumbaru, Of Ruma-
MIA.
Parcels and boxes taken into the
German consulate at Bucharest with
display Of great precaution aroused
the suspicious Of the Rumanian gov.
eminent. On August q, 1916, the
evening prior to the date Of Ruma-
MAS declaration of war. some Of the
cases were taken to the German le.
cation, located In n different building
from the consulate. Convinced that
tho boxes were not taken away from
tho legation by the German diplomatic
mission on It's departure from Buchar.
est, tho Rumanian authorities later
ordered the police to find and examine
their contents. The police communi.
Gated with American Minister Vopic.
ka, then In charge Of German inter.
ests, who reluctantly assigned Score.
tary Andrews to observe tho search.
The boxes were found buried In the
garden Of the German legation.
Mr.. Andrews report says:
"Upon my return from the examina.
tton which resulted In tho discovery
Of tho explosives and OF tho box OF
microbes, both Of which the legation
servants admitted having placed in
the garden, the former confidential
agent Of tho German minister, DR..
Bernhard, who had bcen left with the
legation at the German minister's re.
quest to assist In the care OF Ger.
man interests, admitted his knowledge
Of the explosives placed In tho gar.
den: told me that moro were in the
garden than had been found; that
still larger quantity had been buried
in the house Of the legation. and that
still worse things than this box OF
microbes were contained in the lega.
ton, and inslnuated that they would
have been found even in the cabinets
Of dossiers which I had sealed.
"Dr. Bernhard also stated that all
these objects had been brought to the
German legation after our legation
has accepted the protection Of German
interests, which agreed with the state
ment Of the servants. A similar con,
fession was made to the minister by
this man.
1.-THE protection Of the United
States was In this manner shamefully
abused and exploited. In this instance
at least, the German government can
not have recourse to it's usual system
of denial"
F1fty-one boxes we're taken from
the ground In the garden. Fifty OF
them contained each a cartridge filled
with trinitrotoluene saturated with
mononitrotoluene, among the most
powerful explosives known, one-fifth
Of each one being sufficient to tear up
a railroad track. In the other bon
were bottles Of liquid found to be cul.
tivations Of the microbes Of anthrax
and CHAMBERS. 1t bore q seal showing
1t came from the German consulate
at Kronstadt. Hungary, and inside
was found a typewriter note in Ger.
man, saying:
Enclosed four phials for horses and
four for cattle. To be employed as
formerly arranged. Each phial Is suf.
ficient for 200 head. To be introduc.
ed, If possible, directly into the AMI.
mails throats; If not into their fodder,
Please make little report on the sue.
CESS obtained there; in case of good
results the presence Of Mr.. Kostoff
Cor one day here would BIO desirable. ,"
Gets IS Years For Killing Child.
William Shannon, the twenty.
one-year-old youth who on June
"a, shot and killed Leonore Saylor,
the three-year-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Saylor at Sandy Ridge.
went into court at Bellefonte, Pa,
and entered a plea Of murder Of the
second degree and was then sentenc.
ed by Judge Henry G. Quigley to six.
teen years In the western penitcnti4ry.