Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-09-25
LANSING LISTS
KAISER 5 TOOLS
Exposures To Come Will
Add To Sensational
Evidence of Guilt.

WASHINGTON. D. c.. Sept. 24.-Whfle
there is no indication of the state de'
partment's next disclosure OF German
intrigue. 1t is known that disclosures
as sensational as any yet published
may be made at any. time.
One of the things the state depart
ment has is list of persons who re-
received German money IN the pass.
port frauds, the munition plots, ana
practically all the other activities OF
German intrigue here since the begin
ming Of the war in August. 1914
From time to time the department
also probably will make public certain
eyfdesxs to dispose Of the Acnas stksoi
those who have been involved in the
disclosures already made. :, s;
AMERICAN ENVOY TRfckEo.
Germany "shamefully abused and ex.
ploited' the protection Of the United
states by secreting in the German 10
cation at Bucharest, after the Amen-
cangovernment had taken charge OF
Germanys affairs at tho RoumaniAn
capital, quantities of powerful explo-
styes for bomb plots and deadly mi
crobes. with instructions for their use
in destroying horses and cattle. rms
has been revealed by Secretary Ian
sing.
It II 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 on the verge of war with
Germany, the Won Eckhardt letter
from Mexico City, and the Won Bern
storff telegram asking the German for:
eign office for authorization to spend
$4,000 to influence congress.
REPORTS MADE PUBLIC.
The latest story liz told in report to
the state department by William Whit
ing Andrews, secretary Of the legation
at Bucharest, and letter from Foreign
Minister Porumbaru Of Roumania.
Parcels and boxes taken into the
German consulate at Bucharest with
display Of great precaution aroused the
suspicion Of the Roumanian govern.
ment. On August n. 1915, the evening
prior to the date OF Roumania's declar-
alton of war, some Of the cases were
taken to the German legation. located
in a different building from the con-
sulate.
BURIED IN GARDEN.
Convinced that the boxes were not
taken away from the legation by the
German diplomatic mission upon Its
departure from Bucharest, the Rou.
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 reluc-
tantly assigned Secretary Andrews to
observe the search.
The boxes were found buried in the
garden Of the German legation.
Won iGEL's RECORDS.
Further disclosures of farreachins
German propaganda. intrigues and
plots in this country prior to the diplo-
matte break with Germany were made
today by the committee on public In
formation.
In a bulletin styled official Expose
the committee quotes numerous letters
and extracts from letters seized by the
department OF justice in April. 1916. In
raid upon the New York office OF
Wolfe Won Igel. Won Igel. in carrying
on his manifold pro-German and anti
American activities, the documents
show, was in constant touch with the
German embassy and with Count Won
Bernstorff, the then German ambassa
dor to the United States.
'In the form of letters, kilograms
notations. checks. receipts, registers
cash books, cipher codes, lists OF spies
and other memoranda and records, =
the committee says, were found indi
cations-in some instances of the
vaguest nature, in others Of the most
damning conclusiveness-that the Ger
man imperial government through its