The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-09-27
new KAISER PLOT
TOLD BY LANSING
Deadly Germs and Bombs Are
Placed in Consulate.
MORE DUPLIcITY is SHOWN
Germans Misused United States
Friendship at 5ucharest-Plotted
to XIII Horses and Cattle by
Spreading Plague.

spreading Pla9ue'
Washington, Sept. 24.--HOw Ger.
many "shamefully abused and ex-
plotted" the protection of the United
States by secreting in the German le-
CATION at Bucharest, after the Ameri-
can government had taken charge of
Germany's affairs ut the Roumanian
capital, quantities Of powerful explo-
sives for bomb plots and deadly mi
crobes, with instructions for their use
In destroying horses and cattle, was
revealed by Secretary Lansing.
1t was 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 Bernstorff
telegram asking the German foreign
Office for authorization to spend $780,
600 to influence congress. r#..
Bomb Story From Legation.
The latest story is told in II report
to the state department from William
Whiting Andrews, secretary of the lie.
CATION ut Bucharest, and a letter from
Foreign Minister Porombaru of Rou-
mania. ,..
Parcels and boxes taken into the
German consulate ut Bucharest with
display of great precaution aroused
tire suspicious of the Roumanian gov.
ernment. On August ~, 1915, the eve.
ming prior to the date of Roumania's
declaration of war, some Of these cases
We're taken to the German legation, To-
Gated in a different building from the
consulate.
Convinced that the boxes were not
taken away from the legation by tn,
German diplomatic mission on its de.
parture from Bucharest, the Rouma.
MAN authorities later ordered the pc
lice to find and examine their contents
The police communicated with Aneri.
can Minister Vopicka, then in charg.
of German Interests, who reluctant!
assigned Secretary Andrews to observ,
the search The boxes were fouat
buried in the garden Of the German lie,
CATION. H..
Plot 10 Admitted.
Mr.. Andrews report says:
Upon my return from the eXamina.
ton, which resulted in the discover!
of the explosives and of the box OF
microbes, both of which the legation
servants admitted having placed IL
the garden, the former confidential,
agent of the German minister. Doctor
Bernhardt, who had been left with the
legation at the German minister's re-
quest, to assist in the care of German
interests, admitted his knowledge o.
the explosives placed in the garden
told me that more were in the garden
than had been found; that a still larg
er quantity had been buried in the
house of the legation and that still
worse things than tb', box Of microbes
were contained in/che legation, and in
simulated that they would have beer
found even In the cabinets OF dossler'
which had sealea.
doctor Bernhard also stated that
all these objects had been brought tt
the German legation after our lega.
CATION had accepted the protection OF
German interests, which agreed Will
the statement OF the servants. A
similar confession was made to the
minister by this man.
U. s. Protection Abused.
'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"
Fifty-one boxes were taken from the
ground in the garden. Fifty of them
contained each a cartridge filed with
trinitrotoluene saturated with mono.
nitrotoluene, among the most powerful
explosives known, One-fifth of each of
one being sufficient to tear up u rail-
road track. In the other box were bot
Ties Of liquid found to be civilizations
Of the microbes of anthrax and gland
.ers. 1t bore seal showing it came
from the German consulate at KrOn-
stadt, Hungary. Inside was found a
typewriter note in German, saying:
Enclosed four phials for horses and
four for cattle. To be employed as
formerly arranged. Each phial is suf-
ficient for 200 head To be introduced,
If possible, directly into the animals
throats; IL not, into their fodder.
Please make little report on the sue
cess obtained there; in case of good re-
suits the presence Of Mr.. Kostoff for
one day here would be desirable"
Foreign Minister Porumbaru accom-
panied this letter with documents to
prove the origin of the boxes and their
contents. eE