The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-03-25

Of President Wilson. For all other
acts that have been styled 'TeutoniC
Outrages I cannot too strongly dis
claim any responsibility.
Not Planned in ID. c.
They were not planned, nor engi
neered, nor financed from the ambas-
sadorial offices at Washington. a2j
as a matter of fact there never was
after they had been committed. Fur
Their, anyone acquainted with our
policy must have understood that
these acts were Numerically oppo-
site to our wishes and did much 20
defeat the ends for which constantly
was striving.
1T was my wish to end the war as
soon as possible. l had tried as early
as 1914. as Mr.. Bryan can testify, to
stop the European conflict, ana later
used all my powers to induce Germany
to accept President Wilson's media
ton and embrace a program OF peace
without victory. All those regret
able occurances that were regularly
featured as German plots against the
United States were factors that
gravely disturbed our work In Wash
ington. until the U-boat warfare ulti-
n,ately made continued relations inn
possible"
The Cipher Messige.
Answering inquiries regarding the
activities Of Won Papen and Boyd,
Count Won Bernstorf said:
much has been made OF certain
cipher messages that were addressed
to our military attache, transmitting
orders to Won Papen. The following
81,
ton. Immediately after the outbre ak
Of the war Won Papen and Boy-Ed
opened Offices and bank accounts Of
their own in New York city, where
they acted Independently OF the en-
bassy and received their orders from
their respective superiOrs in Berlin.
The embassy acted only as an inter-
mediary in the transmission Of ca
bles to these men and the contents Of
the dispatches were unknown to me-
SO. too. Of Weber; I never knew
that he falsif1ed passports to help
German reserve officers get out of
America until arrests followed. 1
never heard OF the attempt to blow
UP the Welland canal until the men
who were involved in the affair were
indicted and the alleged plan to inn
pair the Canadian Pacific railway was
something OF which was absolutely
ignorant, Likewise the attempts to
place Internal machines in outgoing
vessels were acts of which we had
not the slightest cognizance until the
men implicated were caught.
Was ExOnerated.
ST should like the citizens Of the
United States to recall that when
Won Papen and Boyd were ordered
TO leave the United States 1 received
formal assurance from the American
Government that they held the en-
bassy in no wise responsible for the
acts Of individual Germans"
When the ex-ambassador's attention
was called to papers seized in Won
Igers office which revealed a plot to
assist the Irish and East Indian revo-
lutionaries he said:
81 am unable now to see why OBJ
Jections should be made to this propa-
ganda particularly II one reviews the
activities Of certain Polish, Czech, and
Alsatian leaders, within the United
States"
On this subject he characterized as
ridiculous the reports OF many mil
lions" appropriated by the Germans
and which he was supposed to have
to various German organ
nations on behalf Of the German i'm
perial policy.
He declared that such small sums
as was spent were given to several
minor periodicals and such subsidies.
he said, could hardly be considered
Objectionable by the American Gov
eminent since the Erie Zeitung, OF
Berne, had been sustained by Ameri-
can funds. He strongly denied any
in the attempt to embroil
the United States with Mexico and
Japan, saying that any such course
was absolutely opposed to his policy
and the charge that he had partici- |
pated therein he CHARACTERIZED as pre- |
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