The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-09-24
REPORT SHOWS
GERMANY ABUSED
U. s. FRIENDSHIP
Deadly Germs and Bombs Placed
in American Consulate at
Bucharest.
PLOTTED TO KILL ANIMALS
Another Of Series Of LansIng's DiscIo-
sures OF Teuton Intrigue Against
This Government-Piot
Admitted.

Washington, Sept. 24.-How Ger
many "shamefully abused and ex-
plotted" the protection Of the United
States by secreting in the German le
cation at Bucharest, after the Ameri-
can government had taken charge Of
Germany's affairs at the ROumanian
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,
The latest story Is told in report
to tn state department from William
Whiting Andrews, secretary of the le-
cation at Bucharest, and letter from
Foreign Minister Porombaru Of Rou-
mania.
Plot ls Admitted.
Mr.. Andrews report says:
"Upon my return from the examina-
ton, which resulted in the discovery
of the explosives and Of the box Of
microbes, both of which the legation
servants admitted having placed In
the garden, the former confidential
agent Of the German minister, Doctor
Bernhardt, who had been left with the
legation at the German minister's re-
quest, to assist in the care of German
interests, admitted his knowledge OF
the explosives placed in the garden;
told me that more were in the garden
than had been found; that still larg-
er quantity had been buried in the
house of the legation, and that still
worse things than this box Of microbes
were contained In the legation, and in
sinuated that they would have been
found even In the cabinets Of dossiers
which 1 had sealed.
Doctor Bernhardt also stated that
all these objects had been brought to
the German legation after our lega-
cation had accepted the protection Of
German interests, which agreed with
the statement Of the servants. A
similar confession was made to the
minister by this man.
u s. Protection Abused.
"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 its usual system
Of denial"
Fffty-one boxes were taken from the
ground in the garden. Fifty of them
contained each a cartridge filed with
trinitrotoluene saturated with mono
nitrotoluene, among the most powerful
explosives known, one-ffth of each Of
one being sufficient to tear up rail-
road track. In the other box were bot
ties of liquid found to be CIVILIZATIONS
of the microbes of anthrax and gland
ers. It bore a seal showing 1t came
from the German consulate at Kron-
stadt, Hungary. Inside was found
typewriter note in German, saying:
Enclosed four phials for horses and
four for cattle To be employed as
formerly arranged. Each phial is suf
fcient for 200 head. To be introduced,
if possible, directly into the animals
throats; If not, into their fodder.
Please make little report on the sue
cess obtained there in case of good re-
suits the presence Of Mr.. Kostoff for
one day here would be desirable
Foreign Minister Porumbaru accom-
panied this letter with documents to
prove the origin of the boxes and their
contents