Licking Valley courier., 1917-09-27
new OU7RAGES
ARE Dared BY
SEC'Y LANSING
Explosives Also are SeCreted
In ROumania In Abuse of
American Protection
Boxes Containing Deadly Germs Un.
earthed In Garden, to Be Used In
Destroying Horses-Part In Plots
Admitted BY Teuton Minister.

Destroying Horses-Part In Plots
Admitted BY Teuton Minister.
Western Newspaper Union Newg Service
Washington.-How Germany shame
fully abused and exploited" the protec-
ton of the United States by secret
ing in the German legation at Buch-
Arrest, after the American Government
had taken charge of Germany's affairs
at the Roumanian capital, quantities
of powerful explosives for bomb plots
and deadly microbes, with instruc-
tions for their use in destroying
horses and cattle, was revealed by
Secretary Lansing, 1t was another of
the series Of Lansing's disclosures OF
German intrigue made public without
comment in the same mang9 as the
Won Luxburg kilograms w kh have
brought Argentina on the lerge OF
war with Germany, the Won fckhardt
letter from Mexico City antTthe Won
Bernstorff telegram asking The Ger
man Foreign Office for authorization
to spend $4,000 to influence Congress.
From TWO Sources,
The latest story is told in n report
to the State Department from William
Whiting Andrews, Secretary of the
Legation at Bucharest and letter
from Foreign Minister Porumbaru, of
Roumania. Parcels and boxes taken
into the Germany Consulate at Buch-
Arrest with display of great precaution
aroused the suspicious Of the Rouma.
nian Government. August "a, 1916,
the evening prior to the date OF Rou'
manias declaration of war; some of
the cases we're taken to the German
Legation, located in a different build
ing from the Consulate.
Convinced that the boxes were not
taken away from the legatiof by the
German Diplomatic Missile, q its de-
parture from Bucharest, the Rouma.
nian authorities later ordered the po-
lice to find and examine their con
tents.
Boxes Found Buried In Garden.
The police communicated with
American Minister vopica, then in
charge of German interests, who re-
luctantly assigned Secretary Andrews
to observe the search. The boxes
were found buried in the garden OF
the German Legation.
Mr.. Andrews's report says:
Upon return from the examination,
which resulted in the discovery of the
explosives and of the box of microbes,
both of which the legation servants
admitted having placed in the gar.
den, the former confidential agent OF
the German Minister, DR.. Bernhard
who had been left with the legation
at the German Minister'S request tC
assist in the care of German interests
admitted his knowledge of the explo
sives placed in the garden, told me
that more were in the garden thar
had been found; that a still larger
quantity had been buried in the house
of the legation, and that still worse
things than this box of microbes wer,
contained in the legation, and insin
uated that they would have beef
found even in the cabinet of dossier,
which | had sealed.
Protection Shamefully Abused.
"The protection of the United State
was in this manner shamefully abused
. and exploited. In this instance, a
least, the German Government cal
not have recourse to its usual system
) of denial"
d Fifty.one boxes we're taken from tn
ground in the garden. Fifty containe
: each a cartridge filed with trinitrotC
luene, saturated with mononitrotolr
enc, among the most powerful explC
sives known, one.ffth OF each OF on
being sufficient to ear up a railroa
track. In the other box were bottle
/ Of liquid found to be civilizations Q
5 the microbes of anthrax and glanderi
+ 1t bore seal showing 1t came froI
|, the German Consulate at Kronstad
. Hungary, and inside was found a typ,
. written note in German, saying:
; "Inclosed four phials for horses an
+ four for cattle. To be employed a
i follows Each phial is sufficient fC
o 200 head. To be introduced IL poss
q BILE directly into the animals throats
u II not, into their fodder. Please MAX
@ a little report on the success obtaine
/. there In case of good results II
n presence of Mr.. Kostoff for one da
5, here would be desirable"
s. Documents Are Included.
y Foreign Minister Porumbaru accor
II panded his letter with documents
u prove the origin of the boxes and the
Is contents.
ut has been possible to prove in {
T. undisputable way" he said, that b
d. fore our declaration of war to Au
trla.Hungary, when observing neutri
Is ity and keeping up normal relation
5 with the German Empire, the perso
mel of the German legation, violatil
u all rules of neutrality and all duti
" Of diplomatic missions, introduce
le clandestinely considerable Quantiti
y of an extremely powerful explosi
IL and civilizations of microbes destin
VI to infest domestic animals, and in &C
~ sequence susceptible of provoking I,
D rible epldemics also among the hum
ss population. Y