Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-24
GERMARNY PLANTS DISEASE GERMS IN
EMBASSY TAKEN OVER BY AMERICANS
Fifty Cases of High Explos-
ives Also Found in EN-
bassy Garden.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23.-How
Germany "shamefully abused and ex-
plotted" the protection OF the United
States by secreting In the German le-
cation at Bucharest. after the Amer
lean government had taken charge of
Germany's affairs AZ the Rumanian
capital, quantities of powerful ex-
plosivcs for bomb plots and deadly
microbes. with instructions for their
use In destroying horses and cattle,
was revealed today by Secretary Lam
sing
1t was another OF the series of Mr..
Lansings disclosures OF German in
trigue made public without comment
in the same manner as the Won Lux
burg tolegrams, which brought Ar
gentne on the verge CT war with
Germany: the Won Eckhardt letters
from Mexico city and the Won Bern
storff telegram asking the German
foreign office for authorization to
spend $4,000 to influence congress.
Is Told Officially
The latest story is told In n re-
port to the state department from
William Whiting Andrews, secretary
of the legation st Bucharest and a
letter from Foreign Minister Porum
BHfu OF huilldny.
Parcels and boxes taken into the
German consulate at Bucharest with
display of great precaution aroused
the suspicious of the Ruman.an gov
ernmcnt on August 27, 1916, the
evening prior To the date OF Ru-
manys declaration of war, some OF
the cases were taken to the German
legation, located In different build
ing from the consulate. Convinced
that the boxes were not taken away
from the legation by the German
diplomatic mission on Its departure
from bucharest, the Rumanian ai-
thorities later ordered the police To
find and examine their contents, The
police communicated ss1sts AFRICAN
Minister vopi,,a thcf& - n ga OF
German interests, who feluccatntly as
signed Secretary Andrews to Nobserve
the search. The boxes we're found
buried in the gardens of the German
legation. Mr.. Andrews report says.
German View of IL.
"On my return from the investisa-
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
Bernnardt, VINO was l'lt Will tit iu
CATION at the German minister's ro-
quest to assist in the care OF German
interests. admitted knowledge of the
explosives placed In the garden; tolu
me that more were in the garden than
had been found; that IA 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 legation and insisted
that they would have been found evvn
in the cabinets of Dossiers, which
had sealed.
Doctor Bernhardt also stated that
all OF these objects had been brought
to the German legation after our le-
cation had accepted the protection o.
German interests which agreed with
the statement OF the servants. A sim
liar confession was made to the min
lister by this man.
"The protection of the United states
was in this manner shamefully apused
and exploited. In this Instance, at
least. the German government cannot