Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-10-11
Secret German Telegrams
Made Public BY Lansing
Show attempt at
Sabotage.
tBy Associated Fress.1

tary Lansing drew upon MS Collectlon
OF secret German diplomatic cores
pondence again to-day to shed further
light upon what the German Foreign
Office and general stan were doing in
| this country while nominally at peace
with the United States
He gave to the public. without COM
ment. as usual. three brief cablegrams
disclosing that more than a year be-
fore submarine piracy drove Americo
to war the Berlin government was in
structing Ambassador Won Bernstorfr
to arrange for destruction OF Canadian
railroads and to use Irish Americans
in carrying on sabotage in their own
country. They showed, too. that Won
Bernstorff on his part. was even at
! that carly date seeking authority I.
support a campaign to influence Con-
gress They are remarkable for the
degree OF cunning and integrity dis
played in the evident purpose to do
all possible injury to Germany's Euro
| pean enemies through cutting of
their resources in America, while at
the same time avoiding as far as pos
siole mourning the wrath of the A1neri-
can people by actual destruction of
ne IN this country and Canada
ne three kilograms comprising this
series iorm the natural complement to
the correspondence already disclosed by
tue state Department conveying alb
solutely convincing evidence of a we'll
calculated and systematic violation Of
American neutrality by Germany dur
! ing a period of more than a wear nre-
ceding the beginning of the rutbIcs.
submarine warfare. and tho breach NJ
relations between Germany and the
| United States
The statement follows:
STATEMENT GIVEN OUT
~ SECRETARY OF STATE
The Secretary OF State publishes the
following two kilograms from the Ger
man Foreign Office to Count Won Bern
storn In January, 1916:
January ). Secret. General stan
desires energetic action in regard 10
proposed destruction OF Canadian Pa.
cine Railway at several points with a
view to complete and protracted in
corruption or traffic. Captain Boehm,
VINO Is known on your side and is
shortly returning. has been given In
structions. Inform the military at
tache and provide the necessary funds.
(Signed) "'ZINlMERMANN."
January &c. For military attache
You can obtain particulars as to per-
sons suitable for carrying on sabotage
in the United States and Canada from
the following persons: One, Joseph
MacGarrfty Philadelphia: (2) John p.
keating. Michigan Avenue. Chicago:
| CD jeremiah O'Lcary, 16 Park Row.
New York
| one and two are absolutely relia-
BILE and discreet. No. three is reIia BILE
but not always discreet These per
sons were indicated by Sir Roger Case
| ment In the United States sabotage
| can be carried out on every kind of
factory for supplying munitions OF war.
| Railway embankments and bridges
must not be touched. Embassy must
| in no circumstances be compromised
Similar precautions must be taken in
regard to Irish pro-German propa-
sanda.
tSGned)
REPRESENTATIVE OF GENERAL
| STAFF 80
NO DANGER OF EMBASSY
BEING COMPROMISED
The following telegram from Count
Bernstorfr to the Foreign Office in Ber-
lin was sent in September. 1916:
September Is. With reference
TO report a. n. 266. OF May TO- 1916.
The embargo conference in regard to
whose earlier fruitful cooperation DR..
Hale can give information, is just about
to enter upon a vigorous campaign to
secure n majority in both houses OF
Congress favorable to Germany and re-
quests further support. There is no
possibility Of our being compromised.
Request telegraphic reply"
Presumably these papers form part
those a AFpe
Service men in the raid on the Office of
Wolf Won Igel. In New York. That
Count Bernstorfr was fully aware Of
the intimate danger in which he per-
| sonally was placed by the raid on the
secret German files Is now recalled by
newspaper men who had daily rela-
! tions with him. He did not hesitate
to express the belief that his official
tenure in Washington was bound to be
very short.
When reminded that nothing in the
state OF tho negotiations then in prog
ress between his embassy and the State
Department regarding interference
| with American commerce indicated any
such critical situation, he darkly limited
that there wcre other matters not pub
lished that might cause trouble. and
that he himself might be the victim Of
misrepresentation TO the State Depart
ment.
NAMING OF DIR. HALE
| SOMETHING Of SURPRISE
In this latest step OF exposures the
State Department believes, 1t has re-
moved the last doubt that Count Won
Bernsrorff was the directing head in
America OF tho German machine for
espionage and Industrial plots. The
revelations OF the part played by Jere-
miah O'Leary was not unexpected, and
the fact that his name was suggested
by Sir Roger Easement, who later was
executed in England on the charge OF
treason, already had been indicated in
earlier disclosures, made by tho de-
partment. The injection OF the name
"Mr. Hale" into the German organiza-
tion was something of n surprise. how
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