CONSULS OR SPIES?

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 96, 22 April 1916, Page 6

CONSULS OR SPIES?

BERNSTORFF IN A DILEMMA.

OVER YON PAPER'S PAPERS. WASHINGTON, April 21. The documents seized in the office of Captain yon Papen (ex-German military attache at Washington) when his former secretary (Wolfe yon ]gel) was arrested disclose the' connection of the German Embassy with criminal plots against Canada, including the blowing up of the Wclland Canal. PLOT THAT MISCARRIED. TRACED TO A CONSUL. ~ SAX FRANCISCO, April 21. "Pie American authorities' now have ■proof of the connection of the German Consul at Sari Francisco. (Bopp) with the plot io incite a rebellion in India, which wns revealed by arrests' oL.Qermans, Hindus, Turks, and others. Three American vessels, the steamer China Town, the steamer Maverick, and the schooner Annie Larsen, laden with guns and portions of submarines, cleared here for an Indian destination with the object of stirring up rebellion, but one was interned in Batavia, arid the others were seized by the American officials before they quitted American waters. Two Hindu revolutionaries, who were taken off the Maverick, were sentenced by the British authorities at Shanghai to 15 years' imprisonment for inciting a revoluton. SHIP AS BOMB FACTORY WHILE INTERNED AT NEW YORK. (Received 9.5 a.m.) ■.' •— LONDON, April 21. ! "Sir Edward Grey, Foreign Minister, has announced that the German steamer Friedricli der Gros, while interned at Sew York, was the factory for bombs which were cent thence to other American porta to be placed on ships belonging to the Allies. The German Embassy was implicated.