AMERICAN NEWS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVI, Issue 17030, 3 December 1915, Page 8

AMERICAN NEWS.

THE SHIPPING PLOT. SENSATIONAL DISCLOSURES. I GERMAN EMBASSY KNEW ALL DETAILS. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. NEW YORK, December 1. Sensational disclosures were made by Dr Karl Buenz, managing director of the Hamburg-Amerika Company, when pxamined in the case of alleged conspiracy against the United States in fitting out steamers at American ports to assist German warships in the Atlantic and Pacific. Dr Buenz admitted that full instructions had been issued at Berlin the year before the war broke out telling him how to secure neutral vessels to" supply the German warships if the British Navy held the sea communications. The Hamburg-Amerika Line had a private agreement with the German Government, and in this regard it had received 1,000,000 dollafs since the war began direct from Berlin to enable it to carry out the agreement. Captain Boyed acted as intermediary. The German Embassy at * Washington was fully cognisant of e\ery detail of the conspiracy, since all documents were handed to it for transmission to Germany. Although Britain severed the cables across the Atlantic after war began, the Hamburg-Amerika Line was able to maintain constant cable communication with Germany.