THE DUMBA INCIDENT

Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 71, 22 September 1915, Page 8

THE DUMBA INCIDENT

REMARKABLE COLLECTION OF ! DOCUMENTS. \ (Received September 22, 2.30 p.m.) . LONDON, 21st September. The Press Bureau issues a remarkable collection of thirty-four documents found in 'Mr. J. F. Archibald's possession, including Captain yon Papen's memorandum to the American (government, denouncing the newspaper campaign alleging that there was a German plot as a deliberate effort to embroil Germany with, the United States, and influencing public opinion by alleging a German threat. He j denies that Germany was seeking to purchase arms from factories in the United States. German purchases of, arms in the United States could only be for the purpose of preventing them reaching Germany's enemies. Such pur-, chases would not be shipped, but would be resold to the United States at the end of the war: Captain yon Papen describes Mr. Alberts' documents as unbalanced and irresponsible. He denies that Germany secretly attempted a press campaign. He deplores the disclosure in Mr. Albert's documents of German efforts to purchase liquid chlorine and phenol. He declares the ' latter were intended for medical purposes.