Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-10-11
BERLIN PLOTS ARE
Barred BY LANSING
Bernstorff Ordered to Arrange
to Destroy Canadian
Railroads.
PROOF IN CABLEGRAMS.
German Envoy Here Was Also Asked
to Use Irish-Amcricnns in Carrying
on Sabotage in This Country.

| Washington, Oct. 10.-Secretary Lansing
drew upon his collection of secret German
diplomatic correspondence again to-day to
shed further light upon what the German
foreign Office and general staff were doing
| in this country while nomnally at peace
with the United States.
He gave to the public, without COM
ment as usual three brief cablegrams, dis
closing that more than year before SUBJ
marine piracy drove America to war, the
Berlin government was instructing Ambas-
sador Won Bernstorff to arrange the de-
struction of Canadian railways and to use
Irsh-Americans in carrying on sabotage
in their own country. They showed. too.
that Won Bernstorff on his part. was even
at that early date seeking authority to
support campaign to influence Congress.
TEXT OF MESSAGES
january 22. For military attache.
You can obtain particulars as to per-
sons suitable for carrying on sabotage
in the United States and Canada from
the following persons: % Joseph Mac
Garrity, Philadelphia; (2) John p. Keat-
ing, Michigan avenue, Chicago; (3)
jeremiah O'Leary, 16 Park Row. New
York
lone and two are absolutely reli-
able and discreet Number Is reli-
able but not always discreet. There
persons are indicated by Sir Roger
Easement. In the United States. sab
otage can be carried out in every kind
of factory for supplying munitions OF
war.
Railway embankments and bridges
must not be touched.
| I'm ba sSy must in no circumstances
! be compromised. Similar precautions
must be taken in regard to Irish pro.
German propaganda.
} (Signed) Representative of
General Staff.'"
r "'January g. Secret. General Stan
3 desires energetic action in regard tc
/ proposed destruction of Canadian Pa.
. cific railway at several points. with g
, view to complete and protracted inter.
, ruption Of traffic
"'Captain Hoehn. who is known or
: your side and is shortly returning. ha.
been given instructions. Inform the
military attache and provide the neces
sary funds.
1.-THE second message war:
: (Signed) Zimmerman"
OF the three men mentioned in tn,
l second message. Mccarthy is promi
4 nent Irish leader of Philadelphia ant
jeremiah O'Leary, besides heading tn
= American Truth society," is editor o
e Bull. a publication recently barred fron
Y the mail as seditious. While no one a
d the state department would undertake
y to positively identify the John p. Keat
G ing it was assumed that the man referee
: to was John T. Heating of Chicago, an
that Easement did not know that he ,ha
Il been dead for several months. 1t ais
: was suggested that Easement might hav
proposed these names simply because h
: had met the men and known them as Iris
agitators in this country. without an
correspondence with them on the sub
ject.
There was no official attempt to identif
= the DR.. Hale recommended by Won Bern
storff as an authority on the work of tn
embargo conference, which SO lberall
II bombarded Congress with kilograms de
d manding the munition shipments to tn
y allies cease. DIR. William Bayard Hal,
d one time envoy of President Wilson I
IS Mexico and author of biography of tn
ID President, was in Berlin about that tim
n as n newspaper correspondent and al
,r parently was on intimate terms with tn
@ German government. DR.. Hale's att
rs tude on the embargo question Is said I
l. have strained his relations at the Whit
r. House before he went to Germany.
FRESH lND1CIMENI.
ID In spite of the absence of formal con
ment, administration officials did not hes
f. tate to discuss the latest disclosure pr
or yately and to describe 1t as a natural an
proper development Of the whole tremei
dous indictment against Germany as a
international criminal and a lawless VII
lator of the most elementary and gene
to ally accepted principles Of international il
tercourse and comfy. They declared thu
. not only does this correspondence, take
in connection with what went before ar
ot has already been made public by IL
al state department. convict the Germa
ns government through the kaiser's persons
J." representative in this country OF violatir
,v American neutrality and the effort
deal a blow at its European enemies, b'
C. it clearly discloses the calculated Germa
u. purpose to strangle the administration
n any attempt which 1t might make to pr
in serve that neutrality by deep laid plo
in to control the legislative branch Of Il
W. government
ny PROGRESSIVE CONSPIRACY.
A significant feature OF the revel
tions to which attention is also invited |
the officials is that they have been in
sense progressive in intensity Begi
" ninv with rather mild statements of Ge
man intrigues. each batch of Telegram
n that have been given to the Americs
he press has developed graver accusation
~ AGAINST Germany and to-day's disclosur
M are regarded as vastly strengthening Il
40 indictments not only In the new matt
81 disclosed. but In supplying missing lin
On. in the chain of evidence 10 connect Z
~" Cerman foreign office and the Germ,
re Emperor's personal representative in ii
10 country with the sinister conspira
Dal against American integrity and the We
is- lives of American citizens.
on Secretary Lansing has conferred wi
~. the French ambassador and with t
british ambassador. In the latter case
Recently as yesterday and 1t is unde
stood that the startling disclosures ma
tnNdav as we'll as those which have pi
vas ceded them from the same source h
,en hssn made with the full knowledge a
the annrovsI Of the entente government
rye %,rPp. ,r,ev will have an effect upon t
ner rrsnch an%, % and British publics as well as
jail A,narica is fully realized here In
the .hrsa countries where there has be
ths .nIoo lass agitation in favor of an II
,,tv ,moS,sta nose "a @ neace even If inconclusive.
aeo ~overnments have found 1t necessary
ar, swsr, Themselves to prevent such a spre
a. a.. eSe.. ,as.s IDEAS as might jeopardize I
LII la.