Arizona republican., 1917-09-24
LANSING FURTHER
 REVEALS ABUSES
 BY THE GERMANS
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accepted the protection of German in- terests which agreed with the state ment of the servants. A similar con- fession was made to the minister by this man.
 The protection of the United States was in this manner shamefully abused and exploited. In this instance, at least. the German government cannot have recourse to its usual system of denial"
 Fifty-one boxes were taken from the ground in the garden. Fifty or them contained each a cartridge filled with trinitrOtoluene saturated with mononitrotoluene, among the most powerful explosives known, one-fifth of each one being sufficient to tear up a railroad track. In the other box were bottles of liquid found to be cul- tivations of the microbes of anthrax and glanders. It bore a seal showing it came from the German consulate at Kronstadt, Hungary, and inside was found a typewriter note in German, saying:
 -'Inclosed (four) phials for horses and four for cattle. To be employed as formerly arranged. Each phial is suf ficient for 200 head To be intro duced if possible directly into the
 u. throats; If not. into their r,,.4cr. Please make a little report on the success obtained there; ir case of good results the presence of MT. Kos toff for one day more would be desir- able
 Foreign Minister Pron'baru accom- panied his letter with documents to prove the origin of the boxes and their contents.
 "It has been possible to prove in dn undlsputable way" he said, that be- fore our declaration of war to Austria Hungary when observing strict neu- trality~ and keeping up normal relation with the German empire the personnel Cf the German legation, violating all rules of neutrality and all duties of diplomatic missions, introduced clan dsstinely considerable quantities of an extremely powerful explosive and cul- tiVatiOns of microbes destined 10 in fecI domestic animals and in conse- quence susceptible of provoking terri hle epidemics also among the human population.
 There can hardly be any doubt aboUt the way by which these sub stances were introduced into Ruman- ian territory; the very stringent police measures at all frontier stations taken by the royal Rumanian government since the outbreak of the war, and continually made stricter since prove sufficiently that these explosives and microbes cannot have reached this country otherwise than by diplomatic courier
 "On the other hand, there can be no doubt about the final object of the i'm portation into Rumania as well as about the use to which they were as- signed The explosives and the mi crobes were detsined to be used in Rumania, very probably in time of peace. From all this it results that in time Of peace members of the German legation, covered by their immunity, prepared in concert with the Bulgarian legation the perpetration on the terri tory of a neutral and friendly state of plots directed against the safety of this state and against the lives of it's subjects.
 The royal government make it it's duty to protect against these criminal practices and especially against the use of the microbes an illegal weapon and certainly worse than poison, the use of which was formally forbidden by the fourth convention of The Hague, as well as against this viola ton of the duties and of the loyalty which international law impoes upon diplomatic missions as an exchange for the privileges which are guaranteed to them"