Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-12-13

termed with the crew OF the beIeT.
The entries are.
March -. 1918: Received tele
? gram from San Francisco. saving
'PlhriSCh was started ont from there
on The tenth and in case anything he
fell him tieiSsmann. OF Leipzig. will
be passed Off for him a. = secretly
substituted in his place
Il answered by telegram 4 follows
My word OF honor requires ina: re-
port the arrival ~ PahrisCh 10 tAa ad-
mlral and also the reason he was se@l
back without permission from Tor the
knowledge of the Geier
March is, 1918: "Tues,iay the 18TH
Telegram from SauerhacA. with refer
ence to nv telegram of the Nth
Have notified the admiral Of the de
rarture Of Pahrisch Report was over
looked on account Of SageIman0s' ab,
sence.
April 9. 1918: Consul at San Fran
cisco stated that Striehel and y. O.
(non-commiSsion Ofticerp from the
Leipzig came in on at s transport"
April 10: Transport sherman is in
Striehel and Geissmann. on board,
the latter formerly OF the Leipzig"
April Y. 1915: "DeCiSion Of the
navy department on the parole OF The
paymasters clerk is here rhev also
ask if there is a man named Pahrisch
on board The requested parole was
sent over. Also wrote them that they
had evidently mistaken the name
Paenich for PahrisCh."
NEW ANGLE APPEARS IN
PROPAGANDA WORK
new angle in the propaganda
work busily carried on appears in
April of 1915. This related to the story
of German raid on Canada. and an
entry shows how the rumor that Ger
mans in America were to attack Can
ada started:
April "a, 1915: Following telegram
was received from consul. San Fran
CISCO through consulate, Honolulu:
Please quietly and in an inconspicu.
Gus way circulate rumors of a plan OF
an attack on Canada
ITO which was answered, 'Tele-
gram Of the 2:h unintellgible Fur
tier instructions necessary
May 3, 1915: Again asked for reply
to my telegram Of April "a regarding
the Canadian affair. Thereupon | TO-
Ceived the following reply: The az
fair is settled
PLANS FOR ACTION WHEN
LUsITANIA WAS SUNK
None Of the revelations contained in
the Grasshof diary is more startlingly
significant of the German attitude to-
ward the United States than the en-
tries about the time of the sinking of
the Lusitania. They show that the
German government looked forward to
a possible break in diplomatic rela-
tons between the two countries, and
that in Honolulu the German ship mas
tiers got ready for the contingency, pre-
pairing to disable German war and mer-
chant ships.
The diary also refers in somewhat
indefinite terms to the destruction of
weapons on the Geier.
Here there comes into the diary the
initials of "H.V.B." These are be-
lieved to indicate Count J. H. Won
Bernstorff the German ambassador
The entries which tell the story and
open up a new field for speculation as
to the activities of Germans in Homo
lulu are as follows:
May II. 1915-"Telegram to consul,
New York: DO you consider it neces-
sary to destroy all secret matter?"
May II, 1e15-"Telegram from con-
sui, New York: I request you to notify
German steamers Immediately to burn
all secret matters relating to the naval
service; also notify the Alsace in Page
Pago.-Consulate.'
Telegram to consul in New York
(Better to have sent it to ATTACHED: DO
you deem necessary the destruction of
the entire set of machinery Of the
Geier?'"
[Above statement in parenthesis is
that of GrassbOf.
Telegram from consul, New York:
Answer to your question: No Only
destroy steamers equipment
CHANGE OF ORDERS
COMES TOO LATE
Then Bernstorff instructs, and three
days afterwards rescinds the order, ap-
parently too late:
May 10, 1915-"Telegram from Bern
Etorff to (?) name omitted in daryl:
Danger of having the weapons confis-
Gated
May q, 1e15-"Telegram from
| washington: H.N.B. DO not destroy.
Answer: 'HVB. All destroyed on ar
rival of last telegram
MEETS ALBERT WEHDE
AT GERMAN CONSULATE
In May a name now familiar to Hon
olulans bobbed up in the diary-that
of Albert Wehde, of Chicago Wehde,
it will be remembered, posed as
businessman and scientist in the ORR
ent, but Uncle Sam looked into his
activities with the result that num-
Der Of months ago he was arrested in
Honolulu, taken to Chicago under in
dctment for completely in the India
conspiracy, convicted and is now i'm
prisoned. Wehde is an American cit
lien and it is not clear why he should
need the legitimate services of a, Ger
man consul. this being noted because
Grasshof refers to meeting him at the
local German consulate. The entry:
May %, 1915-"At the consulate l
met Mr. Wehde who was on his way
tC the Orient on business"
Here is GrasshOf's note on arrival Of
Maverick at Hilo:
June II, 1916 Newspapers con-
faincd an article roCardin0 tho orriy \