Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-09-28

GERMANY ABUSED
PROTECTION
Secretary Lansing Reveals
New Plots.
IEO!OH Eh5;IiNis,,55 !En hJIHii5 ALL
Reveals

Secreted Powerful! Explosives and
Deadly Microbes in Bucharest Lega
tion, Secretary Reveals in New Dis
closures.
Eow Germany "shameful!y abused
and exploited" protection Of the Unit
ed States by secreting in the German
legation sI Bucharest, after the km&r.
lean government had taken charge q
Germans affairs al the Rumarlan
capital quantities Of powerful explo'
sives for bomb plots snd deadly mi
crobas, with instructions for their use
in destroying horses and cattle, was
1eve9led by Secretary Lansing. r.
This story is told in a report to the
state department from william Whit
ing Andrews, secret ary Of The legation
at Bucharest, and letter from for
eign Minister Porumbaru, Of Ruma'
MIA.
Parcels and boxes taken into the
German consulate at Bucharest with
display of great precaution aroused
the suspicious of the Rumanian gov
ernment. On August 27, 1916, the
evening prior to the date of Ruma'
MAS DECLARATION Of war, some CT the
cases were taken to the German le'
cation. located in a different building
from the consulate. Convinced that
the boxes were net taken away from
the legation by the German diplomatic
mission en- its departure from Buofs2r
est, the Rumnnian authorities later
ordered the police to find and examine
their contents. The police ccmmuni
Gated with American Minister Vcpic
ka, then in charge CT German inter
estsy who reluctantly assigned Secre
tary Andrews to observe the search
The boxes were found buried in the
garden cf the German legation.
Mr.. Andrews report Asavs:
upon my return fr"m the exam'na'
ton witch resulted in the discovery
Of the explosives and of the box OF
microbes, beth of which the legation
servants admitted having placed in
the garden, the former confidential
agent OF the German minister, Dr.
Bernhardt. who had been left with the
legation at the German minister's re-
quest to assist in the care of Ger
man interests. admitted his knowledge
of the explosives placed in the gar
den: told me that more were in the
garden than had been found; that
still larger quantity had been buried
in the house Of the legation. and that
still worse things than this box OF
microbes were contained in the lega'
ton, and insinuated that they would
have been found even in the cabinets
of dossiers which I had sealed.
"Dr. Bernhardt also stated that all
these objects had been brought to the
German legation after our legation
has accepted the protection OF German
interests, which agreed with the state.
ment Of the servants. A similar con-
fessicn 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 can
not have recourse to its usual system
of denial"
Fiftv-one boxes we're taken from
the ground in the garden. Fifty OF
them contained each a cartridge filled
with trinitrotoluene saturated with
mononit"ctciue1e among the most
powerful explosives known, one.ifth
Of each one being sufficient to tear up
railroad track. IN the other bcX
were bottles of liquid found to be cul'
tivations Of the microbes of anthrax
and glanders. 1t bore a seal showing
1t came from the German consulate
at Kronstadt Hungry, aNd inside
was found a typewriter ncte in Ge--
man, saying:
Enclosed four phia's fer horses and
four for cattle. To be emH;cyed as
formerly arranged. Each ph:al Is suf-
fcient for 200 head. TO be intccdnc-
ed, If possible. directly into the ami
mais' throats; if not into Their fodder.
Please make a little report on the suc-
oass obtained there. in c&,@e Of good
results the presence Of 3tr. Kostcff
for one day here would be desirable"