LAMP-POSTS FOR HUNS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16657, 29 September 1917, Page 2 (Supplement)

LAMP-POSTS FOR HUNS.

MR. GERARD'S REPLY TO THREAT.

BERLIN'S HOPE IN AMERICA. Mb. Gerard, late U.S. Ambassador in Berlin, gives the story of a piquant encounter with Herr Zimmerman in an instalment of his memoirs, published by the Daily Telegraph. Discussing the crisis and negotiations which followed the Lusitania outrage, he writes :— During this period I had constant conversations with Herr Jagow and Herr Zimmermann, and it was during tho period of tho conversations about this submarine warfare that Herr Zimmermann on one occasion said to me that the United States does not dare do anything against Germany, "because we have 500,000 German reservists in America, who will rise inarms against your Government if your Government should dare to take any action against Germany." As he said this he worked himself up to a passion, and repeatedly struck the tablo with his fist. I told him that we had 500,001 lamp-posts in America, and that was where tho German reservists would find themselves if they tried any uprising.

Lost to the Fatherland. I also called his attention to the fact that no German-Americans making use of American passports, which they could easily obtain were sailing for Germany by way of tho Scandinavian countries in order' to enlist in the German army. I told him that if he could show me ono person with an American passport who had come to fight in the German army I might moro readily believe wlwi he said about the Germans in America rising in revolution. As a matter of fact, during the whole course of the war I knew only one man with American citizenship who enHsted in tho German army. This was. a red-headed Yale student named Llewellyn, who enlisted in a German regiment. His fatlher, a business man in New York, cabled asking me to have his son released from the German army, and so I procured the discharge of the young man, who immediately wrote me and informed me that be was ove..- 21, and ha c. uld not see what bigness his father had to interfere with la military ambi.: m. I thereupon withdrew my request with reference to him, but he had already been discharged froir the i.rmy. When b.s regiment went to the West front he stowed away on the cars with it, was present at the attack on Ypres, and was shot through the body. He recovered in a German hosj pital, received the Iron Cross, was discharged and sailed for America.. What I has since become of him I do not know.