The Daily Missoulian., 1917-09-24
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N nuMANAN LEGATION
Abuse of American Offer Of
Protection Made
Public.
EXPLOSIVES BURIED
Pqll* ound Deadly Cache
Property Taken Over
by United States.

Washington. Sept. 23.--IIow Ger
many 'shamcfully abused and cx-
plotted" the protection Of the United
States by sccreting IN the German lc-
cation AT Bucharest after the .Ameri-
can government had taken charge OF
Cermany's affairs at the Rumanian
capital. quantities of powerful OK
pl0sives for hOHlb plots and deadly
microbes with instructions for their
use In destroying horses and cattle.
was revealed today by Secretary
Lansing.
The latest story Is told in "A report
to the state department from william
Whiting Andrews, secretary OF the le-
entiOn at Bucharest. and a letter from
Foreign Minister Porumbarl. of Rn-
mania
Parcels and boxes taken into the
German legation nj Bucharest aroused
the suspicious Of the Rumanian gov
ernment. The Rumanian authorities
ordered the police to find and examine
their contents. The police commn-
nicated with American Minister
Vopicka. then in charge Of German in
tercsts. who reluctantly assigned Sec
retary Andrews TO observe the search.
The boxes were found buried in the
garden Of the German legation.
German Confessed Plot.
Mr.. Andrews report SAYS:
Upon my return from the cxamina :
| 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
! ga rden. the former confidential agent
! of the German minister. DR.. Rcrnhardt
who had been left with the legation at
! the German minister's request. ad
mitted his knowledge OF the explosives
placed in the garden: told me that
] more We're in the garden than had
| been found: that still larger guam
,itiy 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 inslnu-
atcd that they would have been found
even in the cabinets OF dossiers. which
had been sealed.
DIR Bernhardt also stated that al
these objects had been brought to tn
German legation after. our legation ha'
accepted the protection of German in
tcrests. 5.r,ut
The protection Of the United state
was in this manner shamcfnfiy abuse
and exploited,
Powerful Explosives Found.
Fifty-one boxes were taken from tn
ground in the garden
Fifty of them contained each n car
fridge filled with trinitrot oluene sat
nrated with mononitrStoluene anon
the most powerful explosives know,
one fifth OF each of one being snffi
cicnt to tear up a railroad track
the other box were bottles Of liqni
found to be civilizations of the mi
crobes of anthrax and glanders.
bore n seal showing it came from u
German consulate at kronstadt, Hur
l gary, and inside was found n typewrit
ten note in German saying:
Enclosed four phials for horses an
four for cattle To he employed ;
: formerly arranged. Each phial
sufficient for ,Gh head. To be il
troduced, II possible directly into Il
animals throats. If not into their fot
i der Please make n little report {
: the success obtained there. In ca!
9 of good results the presence Of N
Kostoff for one day here would be IL
Q sirable.'
Foreign Minister Pornulharn accon
panied his letter with documents
n prove the origin Of the boxes and the
$ contents.