Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-10-10
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Bernstorff kilograms Given
Out BY Lansing Show
Direct Guilt.

Washington, Oct. 10.-Further
exposition of Ambassador BERN
st0rffs activities i'm the United
States was given today by Sec
rotary Lansing, who made public
three kilograms which passed be-
tween the ambassador and the
German foreign 0ffice.
The statement follows.
The secretary of state publishes
the following two kilograms from the
German foreign Office to Count Won
Bernstortf in January, 1915:
Jan. 3. Secret. General staff de-
sires energetic action in regard to
proposed destruction Of Canadian Pa
cihc railway at several points with
view to complete and protracted in
corruption Of traffic Captain Boehm,
who is known on your side. and is
shortly returning. has been given in
struCLjOns. Inform the military at
tache and provide the necessary funds.
tSigned}, -zTMMER4IANN. .
The following telegram from Count
Bernst0~f to the foreign Office in Der
lin, was sent in September, 1916.
Sept Is. With reference to re
port A. ~, 226 of May TO- 1916 The en-
barge conference in regard 40 whose
earlier fruitful cooperation DR.. Hale
can give Information is just about TO
enter upon q vigorous campaie4 to Sc
cure q majority in both houses of con
gress favorable to Germany and re-
quests further support There is no
possibility of our being compromised.
Request telegraphic reply.
Names Jeremiah 0'Leary.
Jan 26-for military aHache. You
can obtain particulars as 10 persons
suitable for carrying on sabotage in
the United States and Canada from the
following persons. I Joseph MacGar-
rity. Philadelphia, Pa: , John p. keat-
ing, Michigan, avenue, Chicago, 3 Jer-
emiah OLeary. No. is Park Row, New
York
one and two are absolutely re-
liable and discreet Ne , is reliable
but not always discreet, These per
sons were indicated by Sir Roger Case
ment I'm the United States sabotage
can be carried out ON every kind Of
factory for supplying munitions Of
war Railway entertainments and
bridges must NOT be touched. Embassy
must i'm no circumstances be comprom-
Used Similar precautions must be
taken i'm regard % Irish pro-German
propaganda
lSignedf Representative of general
staff '
In this latest step of exposures. the
state department believes It has re
moved the last doubt that Count Won
Bernst0rG was the directing head IN
America Of the German machine for
espionage.
The revelations Of the part played
bv jeremiah OLeary was not uneE-
pected and that fact that bis name
was suggested 10y Sir Roger Easement.
who later was executed in England on
the charge of treason. already had
been indicated in earlier disclosures
made by the department
HaIc's Name Causes Surprise.
The injection of the name +Dr.
Hale" into the German organization
was something of a surprise. however.
and gave immediate rise 10 specula-
ton as to just what individual was
meant DR. William Bayard Hale. act
ing as new spaper cores ondent
was then in Germany and admittedly
close to- the Berlin government.
Secretary Lansing adhered to the
same policy Of silence today as has
characterized previous disclosures
adding this last chapter 10 German
perhdy without comment or lhtefpfe-
tatfon. Tt has been understood that
the state department and the depart
nent of Justice have other records OF
Bernstorff's activities.
smiles at white House.
Publication of the German foreign
Offices message referring TO Jeremiah
OT.e8rv caused many smiles Of grim
satisfaction at the White house. It
was recalled that during the last pres
ideutiai campaign OLeary. as pTest-
dent of the American Truth Society
teIegraDhed the president that he anu
many other Americans would not vote
for Mr.. Wilson on account OF bis IN
ternational policy
The president replied from his sum
mer home at Shadow Lawn under the
date of Sept. %, 1915:
your telegram received / would
feel mortified 80 have you or anybody
like YOU vote for me Since you have
access to many disIoya} Americans, j
and / have not, / viii ask you 10 con
vev this message TO them
tSignedl WOODROW WILSON
The three kilograms comprising
thfs series from the natural compile
uent to the correspondence already
disclosed by the state department con
veving absolutely convincing evidence
of a we'll calculated and systematic +
violation of American neutrality by
Germany during period Of more than +
a wear preceding the beginning o.
ruthless warfare and the breach or re-
lar{ons between Germany and the Unit /
ed States.
Presumably these papers form part +
az those taken by the American secret /
service men in the raid on the Office /