CROOKED DIPLOMACY.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2873, 17 February 1916, Page 1

CROOKED DIPLOMACY.

MORC OK YON L'APEN'S I'APIORS

LNTRI.GUI-: IN MEXICO

J>\'NAMITEK-S AM) SI'IWS

London, February 8

Tbu British Foreign Oltice has issued further extracts from the papers found on Captain yon l.'apeii, the Military Attiacho to the German Emlia.s.s.v at Washing-ton, who was recently recalled by hits (.Jovernment. 'I'beso -cli.selosi' tile extraor<lin.ary activity of German plotters in the United States amd the cynical scorn expressed against President Wilson. One of the extracts show« that in Ma rob. 1914, the Germain War Miinister inslruoted vo.iii Pa-pen to ascertain whether in the event of European war the methods employed to wreck trains in the last .Mexican trouble would be sil>l c to be followed by Germany. The attache replied tba-t the train's were wrecked by means of buried dynamite, w-h-ieh was exploded eleetrieally, bul that the .system «■!!« useless unless th(< railways wem badly guarded. ITerr Mimel, the <lirector of the Potsdam branch of a German industrial company, wrote to yon Papon on .Inly 20, inj-l, .saying that unparalleled preparations were, being made for war. WHAT FIO DID IN MEXICO. A testimonial was found from Admiral yon Huntze, a German official in Mexico .saying that Captajn.,von Papm showed especial industry in organ.isiing tho German colony for fho purposes of war, de.sp-.ite that the material with which b<; hud to deal was shy a.nd factious and unwilling for niiiJ.itary •tictivities. An. ollicial letter from Berlin, dated

September i' 9, l!M-l. iniormed yon l'apeii that the Austriaus were fight\uil well, bul. tliat they were badly led, and bad been compelled to retreat in. the Carjta-thia-ius. There had been a. eorrespoiKliiiigly bad reactki ! ii in the Balkan .Stales aiifl in Italy. "lJut," atkkxl tlie Mtej , , "our (roops wiM pull (lie matter through all right. You stay in. America as long as tihe war lasts. H will proba.bly ttrag over the winter." A Lciut.-Col. lleivarth, a former military attache, gave. Mr Lyell a Ictiter in, JJerl.in. on March 10,1U15, iijii'wrmr.ing yon i'apen that Lyell I l 'ox "is reliable, a-ud how s'lra.mefully dep-eiKkuit on Grea.t Britain America has become." Lyell Fox was general manager of Wildman's Magazine and of a now,s service. Writing from Berlin on July '28, 191.5, yon I'apen said: "The Princess Friodrich Leopold invited me to Potsdam. We got up a>u interview with a- Spartan German noman in time of war. lint, best of all, there is .somotliaiig big coming through the Fpreigu Uffice from Prince Henry on tiho Frewloni of the Sea«. You will m:o tihat wo liiave been fairly busy in the short tiinie that we have beenbore. Berlin looks well in sunwner, of course. There is an. undercurrent of feeling among the masses against America.." KNEW ABOUT BULGAiUA. I'rinee lla.lziekl \\rote to yon i'apen an Uiiwlivtcxl letter in which he .sa.kl.—"My wiito writes me that Bulgaria, will certainly eoino in on our .side a.t''tlie end of August, lion mania is remaining iuaoth'c."

In another un'da.ted letter Ca])laiu Boy-Ed Mie- German Naval Aitaono who was turned out oif, Washington at the same time as yon Papen, wrote —'"i'apen's seoret agent iv Waslnngtou informs me that the people in Washington, are excited. Yon Pa-pun, is constantly watching, and they are in possession of n wholeJioap of in,criinina.biu:g evidenco aga.ins-t him, but no evidence aga.nst Count B. and Captain H.E." There was a n:ote of exclania'tioii here. (Count B. is evidently Count, yon Bennstorff, the (ierman Ambassador.) Dr. Dam'ba", the Austrian Ambassadox at Washington ,iv a Tetter of September 1, 1915, said: "Things a.re go11it gsi)lendiidly in Russia if onjy the Darda.neliles iliold out. D,o you not also feeil anxiety on t'ha.t score?" Tho papers, further, included .specificaitiions and details regarding Ainoriean manufaoturwig companies, and regarding Gorman orders for shrapnel and high explosives tlhey painted out that American shells were not equal to the Gexmjui make in the specifica tions, because of differences iti the process of manufacture. SENT KTJEPFEBLE TO SUICIDE. George Sylvester Vaerech, a wollknowji Germa/iii auhhor and editor m !\'ew York, v.roU' to voji.- Papen on December i, 191.5, as follows: "We havo ref.ra.iiied. from i)ubliahin-g tihe sh-amo-fiil iihiings that the Wilson Adminustration has dono in the niatne of nexitrality, because we do not wish to make more difficult the position of t ! ho representatives of Genna/ny. The American regrets the impossibility of goiii'K to Germany (o fight. It is'impossibli* to get through. Tho British search every corner of every ship." A White Paper prints facsimiles of yon Papen's cheques, which show largo payments to secret service agenits , for dyna-uiiifclng plots and for spying. Thrw wiiriiw were paid to spies who were! somt to England to enter. i.F jio.ssibk', tho Government service thorn.

One of .Mm results of tW.s enterprise was tho .suie.kle of ihe spy Knepfe.rlfl in a- Londfun prL-son.