WORK OF GERMAN PLOTTERS EXPOSED.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume IV, Issue 963, 13 March 1917, Page 7

WORK OF GERMAN PLOTTERS EXPOSED.

WIDESPREAD ESPIONAGE IN AMERICA. HOW MILITARY SECRETS REACHED BERLIN. Australian and N.Z. Calle Association. (Received March 13, 9.20 a.m.) NEW YORK, March 12. Guanta, a Hindoo student, admits that Captain von.Papcn, & former military attache to the German Embassy at Washington, who was dismissed many months ago for complicity in intrigues, financed a trip in 1915, when Guanta endeavoured unsuccessfully to purchase arms for shipment to India. The "New York World" publishes documents showing that •Germany two anr? a-half years ago supplied General Huerta, a Mexican rebel leader, with guns and munitions for use against the Americans and Carranzistas. Five arrests of pro-Germans disclose a far-reaching plot in which the crews of the interned liners Kronprinz Wilhelm and Prinz Eitel Friedrich are implicated. The evidence showed that articles had been smuggled from the ships on which were messages in invisible writing. It is believed that these related to military secrets, and that they were sent to New York, and thence - to Mexico,- whence they were transmitted by wireless to Berlin.