The daily times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1902-1936, 1918-10-30
CANLAUX TRIED
TO SPLIT ALLIES
Swift's Son-in-Law Minotto
Says France, Italy and
Spain Were TO Join
THE CENTRAL POWERS

THE CENTRAL POWERS
Count James AIinotto, the German
Inobleman who is a son-in-law of
Louis T. Swift, the Chicago packer,
land vao, according TO Secretary o.
the Navy Josephus Daniels, tried to
get a place in the Naval Intelligence
Service OF This country, has made i
startling confession to the Ameri-
can authorities regarding a plot en-.
gagged in BY Joseph j. CaillauX. the
former French Premier; Count Lux
burg, former German Minister to the
Argentine, and himself, to disrupt
the Entente Alliance and to bring
Iabout q neW war. in which the Teu,
ttonic powers, France, Italy and
Spain would b. arrayed against
Great B:i Ill and Epssia. The full
report ol ne Miaorto confession is
now on the WY 70 the French au.
thorities il Paris.
Minotto, whose internment as an
enemy alien was fought by his wife s
family. who maintained that the
Count was an Italian and an ally OF
the United States, was brought to
New York last week from the liz.
ternment prison near Fort Ogle.
| thorpe Ga. He was taken before
Deputy Attorney General Alfred l.
Becker who represented the Frenc;
Government and the Federal au
thorities At first, Minotto was moi
inclined to talk, but he finally tolo
the story in all its details.
The Countess Minotto, mother o.
Count James, was before her mar
riage, the famous German actres!
Agnes Sorna. MINNIE Sorma vii
be remembered by old theatregoer!
as the star in Haupmann's Sunker
Bell, which was played in German
al the Irving Place Theatre some
twenty years ago. Tie Countess
and her husband are both in tn,
! United States at present They ven
to Chicago last November too aiC
their son when he was fighting
against the Governor order of in
Iternment.
Mr.. Becker said last night tha
for the present he was not in a po
sition to make public the full detail
of the confession made by Minotto
The story when told in full, he sal,
would be one of the most remarka
BILE in the history of internationa
intrigue and would show up Gail
laux as plotter compared TO WHOM
, Bolo Pacha was a mere novice. BOl
sought TO corrupt French publ
: opinion through the publication O
a few ne wspapers. Caillaux on tn
: other hand, sought to betray not on
ly his own but two other nations a
well, one of them Italy, an ally O
J France, and the other Spain,
friend Of France for centuries pas
: Had the plot succeeded, it wa
, pointed out that the whole allie
: structure would have collapsed an
: Germany would have been victor
Gus in the war and the undispute
master Of Europe.
The fact that Caillaux had visite
. Beunos Aires early in the summer G
, 1915, and that while there had cor
, ferred with Luxburg, the author G
the sink without trace" suggestio
, to the German Government, has lon
J been known to Mr.. Becker and otl
| er officials, who for more than tv
years have been at work trying t
, get at the bottom OF the plot. TIL
| plotting began before the war wa
, six months old, and it was recalle
yesterday that among the first c
. this country was Minotto, who cam
: over in the Lusitania, accompani
/ by Baron George Won Seebeck, a so
. OF the German officer, whose CON
mand is said to nave been the frs
| to cross the Belgian border, an
: Herr Fritz Kuhn, the last namet
the son of prominent banker {
Mannheim, Germany. Seebeck an
, Kuhn are now interned. All thre
of these persons had been in the en-
J ploy OF the Deutsche Bank in Loi
don before the outbreak Of the wa
t A year after his arrival in this coul
: try Minotto's engagement to Mis-
b Ida May Swift of Chicago was al
: nounced.
:. After theexposure OF the Bolo P,
z lcha- Bernstorff plot, which was mad
lby Mr.. Becker and which led to Il