New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-24
Plots i'm u. s..
Directed by
Falkenhayn
Chief of Staff Said Shutting
Off of Munitions to the
Entente Nations i'm 1915
Meant German Victory
Pa'pen Bares NJ essages =
Gen. Wood Accused Him of
Plan to Land U-Boats and
Blow Up N. Y. Subways

BERLIN, May 23 (By The Associated
Press).-"If you succeed in measurably
restricting American deliveries of war
materials to the Entente until the end
of 1915 we will. in all probability, have
won the war"
General Won Falkenhayn, then chief
of the German General Staff. wrote
thus to Captain Franz Won Papen, Ger
man military attache at Washington,
in the spring of that year. The state
ment, which comprised part of the
evidence submitted by Won Papen in a
recent hearing before a parliamentary
commission, was amplified by him to
the extent that he directed his efforts
to this end.a
Captain Won Papen at the time was
secretly examined by the National As
sembly Commission, which also heard
Count Won Bernstorff, the former Ger
man man Ambassador to the United States.
His evidence is only now made public.
New York Plot Exposed
In describing the efforts of the
United States to follow his activities
in that country, Won Papen said:
General Wood once asked me to call
on him at Governors Island He was
very cordial, and smilingly told me
several persons have called on me and
given me a detailed plan of plot,
which you, captain, are supposed to to-
have worked out. The scheme provides
for the landing of German U-boats at
New York, which would then proceed
to blow up the subway tunnels and
the city's water mains. We have your
complete plans, where you propose to
place your explosives and what points
you will attack. Complete evidence is
in my possession. You may see it if
you are interested.'
eve did not waste a single word
over the matter. But the incident
the time"
Won Papen touched uuon what he
called the unneutral attitude of Off
cial quarters in Washington, the Amer
lean courts and political circles, and
declared that the British military
attache was permitted to operate un-
molested and given the support of off,
cial quarters and the American Secret
'Service.
Agreed With Bernstorff
Won Papen declared he was of the
same opinion politically as Won Bern
storff, with respect to the American
situation, and so informed General Won
Falkenhayn when he returned after
his recall from Washington.
"If you do not succeed in keeping
the United States out of the enemy
coalition, you will have lost the war;"
Won Papen informed the chief of staff
Ee added tnat tremendous material
and moral assets were at the disposal
of America. But" continued Won
Papen, "these were so imperfectly ap-
praised here that deemed it necessary
to enlighten German public opinion
concerning them"
The military attache obtained the
consent of Won Jagow, Foraign Secre-
tary, to appear before the German ed
itors to inform them on the German
attitude, but Major Nicoll, chief of the
press and espionage division of the
general staff, opposed the plan.
After detailing the plans to corner
war materials in the United States,
control factories, divert labor and pre-
vent munitions from reaching the En-
tente, Won Papen said the theft of DR..
Albert's portfolio containing outlines
of the scheme brought the secret into
the Entente's possession.
DR.. Heinrich Albert, imperial German
Privy Councillor, succeeded DR.. Dern-
burg as director of German propaganda
in this country during the war In
1915 portfolio of documents, including
numerous letters and messages showing
that DR.. Albert was in communication
with men who we're ready to foment
industrial troubles for money, was stol-
en- from the Privy Councillor and it's
contents were publ ished. DR.. Albert de-
MED at the time that he was an insti-
gator of strikes, declaring the letters
merely showed that men were for hire
for that purpose and not that he had
hired them.