New Britain herald., 1917-09-21
BERNSTORFF SOUGHT $5O,0
 TO STOP WAR DECLARAT
State Department
 Public Message EX]
 Duplicity of Formel man Ambassador to
URGED DECLARAT1
 FAVORING IREl

hOED DECLAhAl !
 FAVORING IREI
 Makes Mysterious Referee iIl
 gram to Berlin to Society w Is Believed to Have Used Il Now Known to Have Had knowledge of Country's Inte Declare Wide U-Boat Warfa Washington, Sept. 21.--S1 astounding addition to the of disclosures covering Germ trigues in America and elsew message sent by Count Won
 storff, in January of this year
 Berlin foreign office requesti thority to pay out s50,000 to ir
 congress through an unnamed
 ization, apparently known to t
 lin authorities.
 Count Won Bernstorff indie
 his message that money had be
 this organization on former o. to perform the same work. The message, dated Janua 1917. follows:
 I request authority to paJ up to $5O,00O (ffty thousand lars )in order, as on former sions, to influence con through the organization know of, which can perhapsI vent war. I am beginning in the n1 time to act accordingly. In the above circumstanc4 public official German declar} favor of Ireland si highly q able in order to gain the su1
 of Irish influence here. Whether the state departmeIl possession of other evidence il ing the ambassad activitie not been revealed, but the extra ary disclosures already made ha the belief that agents of the States governm have collect' ! compiled the entire story of e
 duplicity and intrigue and thai 1 tional chapters will be added.
 Knew of U-Boat Procla3nat.
 The reference to avoiding "
 taken as an indication that A i @ador Won Rernstorff had prior ledge of his governments intent proclaim a merciless, widesDrea marine warfare. and that he equally confident that the states government could not be placated by mere promises. Tn man announcement of it's int to expand it's submarine ac1 was not made public until J: 3l, when the world was startl, only by the determination to r all restrictions but by the stat that it would become effective following day. Three days lat United States government hat pressed it's disapproval by SC relations with Germany.
 That the German ambassador of his governments intention assumed by some officials, alt at the same time he denied knowledge and those in close with the embassy were given derstand that he did not appro7 course and worked to secure n cation.
 It has not been assumed tht ambassador actually attempte bribe or personally influence member of congress, and doub1 such was his purpose is supper some extent by the compars small amount of money he Fifty thousand dollars, 1t was D, out, would go but short way to buying the influence of any con men. Judiciously expended, ho, 1t might do much in compen paid agents, such as are now k to have belonged to the elaborat chine Bernstorf had so carefully up for the production of propa, and for purposes of espionage.
 Information in the possessio the government but not yet re, is said to show conclusively : direct connection of the German chine in America with the Irish tion than that indicated in Won Bernstorff' message. The ords at the department of justit said to contain the names of me plicated in that phase of Ger, intrigues well known in Americ,
 First Charge Against Bernstol
 Today's announcement by the department is the first official ance of the government with ence to the German am baSsa q or tive person participation in the of plots and intrigutes conducte Germany's benefit in this co since the beginning of the war.
 The evidence of Count Won storff's personal activities in co ton with the German propa; here bears the date of President sons address to congress, Ja, 22, reciting his appeal to the wa nations to enter into peace ne, tions.
 It was not the first time, apps ly, that Count Won Bernstorff sought to influence congressiona tion, this being eloquently procls