New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-11

railroads and 20 use Irish-Americans
in carrying on sabotage in their own
country. They showed. too, that Won
Bernstorf on his own part was even
at that early date seeking authority
to support a campaign to influence
Congress.
Text of Messages.
Secretary Lansing's statement was as
follows:
"The Secretary Of State publishes
the following two kilograms from
the German Foreign Office to Count
Bernstorff in January, 1916;
January 2-Secret. General staff
desires energetic action IN re-
gard TO proposed destruction Of the
Canadian Pacific Railway at several
points. with view to complete and
protractcd interruption OF traihc.
Captain Boehm, who is known on
your side, and is shortly returning.
has been given instructions. Inform
the military attache and provide the
necessary funds.
"'ZIMMERMANN.'
january 26--For Military At
tache. You can obtain particulars
as to persons suitable for carrying
on sabotage in the United States and
Canada from the following persons:
% JOSEPH MacGarrity, Philadel-
phia; 90 John P. Heating, Michigan
Avenue. Chicago; (3) jeremiah
OJeary, 16 Park Row, New York.
Zone and two are absolutely reli-
able and discreet. No. 3 is reliable,
but not always discreet. These per-
sons were indicated by Sir Roger
Easement. In the United States
sabotage can be carried out on every
kind Of factory for supplying muni-
tions of war. Railway embankments
and bridges must not be touched.
Embassy must in no circumstances
be compromised. Similar precau
tions must be taken in regard to
Irish pro-German propaganda.
Signed Representative Of Gen
eral Staff
"The following telegram from
Count Bernstorff 10 the Foreign Of
flee in Berlin was sent in Septem-
Der. 1916:
September IS With reference to
report A. n. two hundred and sixty
six of May tenth. nineteen sixteen.
The embargo conference in regard TO
whose earlier fruitful cooperation
DR.. Hale can give information is
lust about to enter upon a vigorous
campaign to secure majority in
both houses of Congress favorable
TO Germany and requests further
support. There is no possibility of
our being compromis sed. Request
telegraphic reply"
Identities of Men Named
OF the three men mentioned in the
second message. MacGarrity is a prom
inen. Irish leader of Philadelphia, and
Jeremiah A. OLeary. besides heading
the American Truth Society, is editor
Of Bull" a publication recently barred
from the mails as seditious. While no
one at the State Department would
undertake to identify positively the
John p. Heating, yet II was assumed
that the man referred to wes John /
Heating. Of Chicago, and that Cssemen'
did not know that he had been dead
several months. II also was suggested
that Easement might have proposed
these names simply because he had met
the men and knew them as Irish aglta-
tors in this country, without any cor
respondence with them on the SUB
ject.
There was no official attempt TO iden-
tify the DR.. Hale recommended oy
Won Bernstorff as an authority on the
work of the Embargo Conference, wnlcn
so literally bombarded Congress with
telegrams demanding that munitlon
shipments TO the Allies cease. DR.
William Bayard Hale, one time envoy
of President Wilson 20 Mexico and au'
thor of a biography Of the President
was in Berlin about that time as a
newspaper correspondent, and appar'
entity was on intimate terms with the
German COVER. rent. DR.. Hale's attl-
tude on the embargo question is SAID
to have strained his relations at the
White House before he went 10 Ger
many.
Letters Convict Germany
In spite of the absence of forms
comment, Administration officials dic
not hesitate 70 discuss the latest dis
closure privately and TO describe il as
a natural and proper development OF the
whole tremendous indictment against
Germany as an international criminal
and a lawless violator of the most ele'
mentary and generally accepted prin.
ciples OF international intercourse anc
comfy. They declared that not only
does this correspondence. taken in con
nection with what went before and
has already been made public by the
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