Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-09-24
After America, at Kaiser'S Re-
quest, Took Over Legation at
Bucharest, Horrible Treach-
cry Is Perpetrated,
HIGH EXPLOSIVES AND
DEADLY GERMS FOUND
Official of u, S, Embassy in
Rumania Finds Anthrax and
Chambers Microbes With In
StruCtions for Use,
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Washington, Sept 23.--How Ger>
many "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 at the Rumanian
capital, quantities of powerful ex-
plosives for bomb plots and deadly
microbes. with Instructions for their
use In destroying horses and cattle.
was revealed today by Secretary
Lansing.
II was another of the series of Mr..
Lansing's disclosures OF German in
trigue, made public without comment
In the same manner as the Won Lux
burg kilograms which have brought
Argentina to the verge of war with
Germany, the Won Eckhardt letter
from Mexico City and the Won Bern
storff telegram asking the German
foreign office FOR authorization to
spend $50,O00 to Influence congress.
Stories Authoritative.
The latest story is told In report
to the state department from william
Whiting Andrews, secretary of the le-
CATION at Bucharest, and letter from
Foreign Minister Porumbaru of Ru-
mania.
Parcels and boxes taken into the
German consulate at Bucharest, with
display of great precaution, aroused
the suspicious of the Rumanian gov
ernment. August 81. 1915, the evening
prior to the date of Rumania's decla-
ration of war, some of the cases were
taken to the German legation. located
In a different building from the con-
sulate. Convinced that the boxes were
not taken away from the legation by
the German diplomatic mission on its
departure from Bucharest, the Ru-
manian authorities later ordered the
police to find and examine their con-
tents. The police communicated with
American Minister vopicka, then in
charge of German interests. who re-
luctantly assigned Secretary Andrews
to observe the search. The boxes were
found buried in the garden of the
German legation.
Report Made In 1915. ]
Mr.. Andrews report says: y
Upon my return from the examf-
nation 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, DR..
Fernhardt, who had been left with the
legation at the German minister's re-
quest, to assist in the care of German
interests, admitted his knowledge of
the explosives placed in the garden.
told me that more were buried in the
garden than had been found; that a
still larger quantity had been buried
still worse things than this box OF
microbes were contained in the Legal
ton, and insinuated that they would
have been found even in the cabinets
of dossiers which I had sealed.
After United States Took Charge
Or. Bernhardt also stated that all
these objects had been brought TO
the German legation after our legation
had accepted the protection Of Ger
man Sotop WhiSA dSi ecu WIN tii0
statement of the servants. A similar
confession was made to the minister
by this man.
"The protection Of the United States
vas 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 cases were taken from,
the ground in the garden. Fifty of
them contained each cartridge filled
with trinitrotoluene saturated with
mononitrotoluene, among the most
/ powerful explosives known. one-fifth
of each one being sufficient to tear
up railroad track. In the other box
were bottles of liquid found to be cul-
tivations of the microbes of anthrax
and glanders. It bore seal showing