New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-04-25
KAISER EXPOSED AS
LIAR BEFORE WORLD
Germany Proved to Have Pre-
pared for War Before Declaration
PUBLISH VON PAPEN LETTER
Note From War Ministry Asked Con-
corning Methods Employed to BLOW
I'p Irains-Another Told of Great
Activities on July 25, 1914.

Washington, April 25.-RoDeaced
declarations of the German emperor
Sn2j of Hindenburg and Won Luden-
doaff that the war WAS forced upon
Germany, and assertions froM ne
same sources that Germ2uy MAS
ttlSon ly surprise by the Russian
mobilization, attaches particular in
terest to certain papers taken from
Captain Won Papen, late military at
.ache at washington.
Among the papers published by the
British government in White 500 <
appears letter from r. Won Wild Of
the German war ministry in Berlin
to Won Papen, seeking Information re-
garding the best means of blowing up
railroad trains in the event of i Euro
pear war. The point is that this let
ter was written March IL, 1914,
about five months before the out
Dfeak of war. This letter says:
"ACcording to newspaper reports
sever al railway trains were blown up
by revoiutionaries during the troubles
In Mexico. In order to form an
opinion whether in the event Cf 4
European war explosions of this Kind
would have to be reckoned with 1t
Is requested that if possible inf Drma-
ton should be obtained as to how
tAese attacks have been carried out.
We're mines and explosives placed on
lines which were little guarded, or
were the attacks carried out on the
train by igniting a charge of dyn l.
mite, or by the employment Of in
Sernal machines?"
Won Papen Disapproyed of Idea.
Captain Won Papen replying from
Mexico, where it is now known he
was industriously planting the seeds
or the German propaganda and es-
tablish1ng connections for Germany
to use in the event that she should
war upon the United States, did not
regard the operations OF the Mexican
revolutionaries as Of any particular
value. For four months later he
wrote from Mexico City:
Il am convinced from personal evil
dence that all the recent cases Of de-
struction of railway lines by explo-
sion were brought about by burving
dynamite under the line itself and
then igniting it by an electric cur
rent as soon as the train had reached
the appointed place. T consider it
out of the question that explosions
prepared in this way would have to
be reckoned with in European war
sThey are only possible on lines that
are i'll guarded which, as in this
country, often pass for miles through
revolutionary districts, and have no
protection other than q pilot train
Internal machines so far as 1 know
have never been emplOyed.'
Prepared for War July 25, 1914.
Another letter to Won Papen from
IL. 1f no pnt n 0r1lh hpo orOr Y,
Of Disconto- to-Gesellschaft, has this
postscript
1--WE have never before seen such
preparations for war as are being
made at present. German government
stocks fell today one per cent.
Kind regards,
''R. MIMEL."
This letter was regarded as of par
picular interest by the British com
pliers of the correspondence in view
Of it's date July 25, 1914, while ne
gotiations were still in progress u
nyoid war. Evidently DIR. Dumba
Austrian minister to the United
States recalled at the request O.
the United States, did not appreciate
until the last moment the danger IL
which he was placed by his own ma
rthinations for optimism character
lied his last letter to Won Paper
dated at LenoX, Mass, September 1
1915.
"Things are doing splendidly II
Russia wrote Dumba. eff only th
Dardanelles holds out. Everythin;
has ended happily in Washington anc
people already think they hear tn
bells of peace ringing. We have no
>.got that length yet, but it just show
what good effect it produced b.
GOOD words and q light hand"