Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-29
CHEVY CHASE GERM
FACTORY ALLEGED
Affidavits Charge InocuIa.
ton of Animals by Ger
man Agents Here.
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the secret service of the Imperial Ger
man government, whose names were
given to the commission. One of the
brothers is said to have been O medi-
cal graduate Of Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity. skilled in the preparation Of germ
cultures.
Included among the afidavits are
statements by colored stevedores alleg-
ing that German agents brought them
the germs In small glass walls, fitted
with shoppers pierced by inoculating
needles.
Gaining access to the wharves where
the cattle were awaiting shipment, the
papers assert. the stevedores would
steal along the outside Of the inclos-
ures and jab the needles deep into the
bodies of the animals. At other times
operation with internal doses of disease
germs, dumped surreptitiously into food
or water.
Sabotage Was Directed.
The Government claims that Capt.
Boyd, Herr Won Papen and other
German representatives knew of these
operations and were in general charge
of sabotage in this country.
Hilken's af1davit describes him as the
"paymaster" in this country Of German
agents before our entry into the war.
In addition to telling of the inocula-
ton activities Hilken makes startling
allegations concerning connection OF
German agents with plans for destroy
ing munition supplies intended for the
allies.
Hilken asserts that the Johns Hop
kins student was in Germany when the
World War broke out in 1914 and
promptly offered his services to Ger
many Shortly thereafter the man was
detailed to secret service work, 1t Is
claimed.
He came back to the United States
with a supply of cultures, CHAMBERS and
anthrax germs, with which horses and
mules were to be inoculated," the Aft
davit states. IT remember that the
first cultures which he brought had
was some doubt as to whether they
were still alive.
Stevedores Were Hired.
He purchased q germ-hatching oven
and utilized this to breed new cultures.
Capt. became associated with
him in this work and enlisted the serv-
ices Of number Of colored men for
incubation work through - who
had been a boss stevedore for the North
German Lloyd in Baltimore. Capt.
also later was actively associated
in incendiary work"
The remainder of Hilken's afidavit
concerns alleged plans for incendiary
operations in munitions plants, Oil
fields and elsewhere. Hilken supports
the American Governments claim that
sabotage was planned and waged prior
| to our declaration of war against Ger
many.
Another affidavit executed by George
Turner, colored stevedore, of 535 Lee
street. Baltimore, Md, alleges that he
was hired Ito start fires among the
cargoes of ships which we're being
loaded at the docks in Baltimore" and
to inoculate cattle with germs.
Fires Were Started.
Turner swore: II was given from
time to time various devices for start
ing fires. They were so arranged that
by unscrewing top to them could
pour in some acid and later the whole
!. thing would make q big flame. My Job
was to get these and to place them
among the cargoes which were being
shipped to Europe. remember dis
tributing these incendiary devices at
Baltimore, Norfolk and Newport News. -"
work for Mr.. inoculating horses
which had arrived at a port waiting
shipment to the allies. For this purpose
Mr.. - would give me glass bottles
about two inches long and about one
half inch in diameter, each having a
cork stopper. A steel needle with a
sharp point extended from the cork
down into the liquid containing the
germs. When we wanted to inoculate
q horse we would pull out the stopper
and Jab the horse with the needle.
Put Germs in Feed.
Some Of this work, destroying horses,
was done by inoculating the horses,
and at other times we effected our pur-
pose by putting these germs In the food
or in the water which was later given
to the horses. It was not necessary to
inoculate every horse in the shipment,
nor was 1t necessary to feed every horse
food in which the germs had been
placed, as we were told that the dis
ease contracted from those germs was
very communicable and would soon
spread among all the horses In the
shipment. distinctly remember in
oculating horses both at Baltimore and
Newport News"
Several other stevedores signed affi-
davits along similar lines.
The Governments new afidavits are
In answer to denials Of sabotage
charges filed with the Mixed Claims
Commission by Germany. The final
hearing before the commission will be
held this Summer or Fall, when many
disclosures In the official documents will
be aired for the first time.