Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-12-13

The entries are:
March IL, 1918: Received a tele-
= cram from San Francisco. saying
Pahrisch was started out from there
on the tenth and in case anything be-
fell him Geissmann. OF Leipzig. will
be passed off for him ii. e., secretly
substituted in his place.
Il answered by telegram as follows:
Ny word Of honor requires that re-
port the arrival OF Pahrisch TO the Ad-
miral and also the reason he was sert
back without permission from cor the
knowledge Of the GeIer'
March is, 1918: TUESDAY the 18th,
Telegram from Sauerbach. with refer
ence to my telegram OF the 18th
Have notified the admiral Of the de
parture Of Pahrisch. Report was over.
looked on account OF SagelmanuS ab-
sence. 1"
April 9, 1918: Consul at San Fran.
cisco stated that Striebel and n. o.
(non-commissioned officer from the
Leipzig came in on a T. S. transport"
April 49,. Transport Sherman IL in
Striebel and Geissmann on board.
the latter formerly of the Leipzig"
April II, 1918: Decision of the
navy department on the parole Of the
paymaster's clerk is here they also
ask If there is a man named Pahrisch
on board. The requested parole was
sent over Also wrote them that they
had evidently mistaken the name
Paenich for Pahrisch."
NEW ANGLE APPEARS IN
PROPAGANDA WORK
| A new angle in the propaganda
work busily carried on appears in
April of 1915. This related to the story
OF a German raid on Canada, and an
entry shows how the rumor that Ger
mans in America were to attack Can
ada started:
April -, 1915: "Following telegram
was received from consul, San Fran
cisco, through consulate, Honolulu:
Please quietly and in an inconspicu.
Gus way circulate rumors OF a plan OF
an attack on Canada
ITO which was answered; Tele-
gram of the 2Sh unintelligible. Fur.
Their instructions necessary
May 8, 1915: Again asked for reply
tc my telegram of April "a regarding
the Canadian affair. Thereupon l re-
ceived the following reply: The az
fair is settled
PLANS FOR ACTION WHEN
LUsITANIA WAS SUNK
None Of the revelations contained in
the Grasshof diary Is more startlingly
significant of the German attitude to-
ward the United States than the en-
tries about the time of the sinking of
the Lusitania. They show that the
German government looked forward to
a possible break in diplomatic rela-
tons between the two countries, and
that in Honolulu the German ship mas
tiers got ready for the contingency, pre-
pairing to disable German war and mer-
chant ships.
The diary also refers in somewhat
indefinite terms to the destruction of
weapons on the Geier.
Here there comes into the diary the
initials of "H.V.B." These are be-
lieved to indicate Count J. H. Won
Bernstorff, the German ambassador.
The entries which tell the story and
open up a new field for speculation as
to the activities of Germans in Homo
lulu are as follows:
May II, 1915-"Telegram to consul,
New York: DO you consider 1t neces-
sary to destroy all secret matter?'"
May II, 1915-"Telegram from con-
sui, New York: I request you to notify
German steamers Immediately to burn
all secret matters relating to the naval
service; also notify the Alsace in Page
Pago.-Consulate.'"
Telegram to consul in New York.
Better to have sent It to ATTACHED: DO
you deem necessary the destruction of
the entire set Of machinery of the
Geier?'"
[Above statement in parenthesis, Is
that Of Grasshof.I
Telegram from consul, New York:
Answer to your question: No. Only
destroy steamers equipment
CHANGE OF ORDERS
COMES TOO LATE
Then Bernstorff instructs, and three
days afterwards rescinds the order, ap-
parently too late:
May 1e, 1s1@"Telegram from Bern
storff to (?) name omitted in daryl:
Danger Of having the weapons eonfis-
| Gated"
May q, 1s15-"Telegram from
Washington: 'H.V.B. Do not destroy
Answer: 'H.VB. All destroyed on ar
rival of last telegram
MEETS ALBERT WEHDE
At GERMAN CONSULATE
In May a name now familiar to Hon.
olulans bobbed up In the diary-that
of Albert Wehde, of Chicago. Wehde,
it will be remembered, posed as a
businessman and scientist in the ORR
emit, but Uncle Sam looked into his
activities with the result that a num-
Der of months ago he was arrested in
Honolulu, taken to Chicago under in
dictment for completely in the India
conspiracy, convicted and is now i'm
prisoned Wehde is an American cit
izen and it is not clear why he should
need the legitimate services of a Ger
man consul, this being noted because
Grasshof refers to meeting him at the
local German consulate. The entry:
May %, 1s15-"At the consulate l
met a Mr.. Wehde who was on his way
to the Orient on business"
Here is Grasshofs note on arrival of
Maverick at Hilo: