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THE HONG KONG TELEGRAPH.
MATIZ ATORGY T 03 KOITAJIYA.
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1915
GERMAN BOMB-PLOTS IN THE UNITED STATES contry one whore disavowal that these acts are
SJME AMERICAN PRESS OPINIONS..
The mom serious Plot uncovered in this country since the war be- gan, socording to an vanamed *High Government official" gnated by the New York World, has thus far resulted in the surest of Robert Fey, Walter Schols, Paal Daeche, Harbert Kiensle, and Max Breitung on a charge of conspiring against the United States by planning to blow up ships carrying American, muni tions of war to the Allies, mys the New York Interary Digest of November B Fay, who claims to be Pressin Fieutenant sent here) on hir mise sion of dextractionļby the German Secret Service, was arrested with Sebols in a wood near Grantwood, New Jersey, where they were ex- perimenting with explosives In their rooms on Fifth Street, Wee bawken, detectives) claim to have found documents connecting Ear With the German Army and the German Foreign Office; a United States Cosat Surrey map, showing New York Harbour, with all its decks and pises în decail; and four suit-orses containing die guires, rogobanisma for bombe, and a quantity of high explosives, Then the other arrasta followed, the prisoners being held for trial under bail of $25,000 each. A ording to a signed statement made by Fay since his arrest, he received befors leaving Garmany kis instructions and $4,000 from Har James, of the German Secret Service. Other dessils of this interesting statement are thus summarized in the New York
Company, and several steamers which had sailed with cargoes of munitions."
In soother column of The Times we find the suggestion that the heads of the conspiracy have not been reached, and that others, farther up the social and Enancial
see it it is a most, flagrant "It must be evident to ersry violation of the neutrality of this one capable of clear sanal vision bot merely would indeed be difficult to | wrong, nos marely eciminal, but. socopt, if it were conclusively that they are stupidly foolish, so shown that German officialdom far as promoting the ends has been carrying on thees opera which they aim is concerned. tions. If Fay's story is true, Instead of doing bonour to show remarks the Brooïllyn Eggla-- engaged in them is consigns them to infamy. Instead of winning sympathy for the nation in behalf of which they are perpetrated, they based scapathy. Instead of balping that nation in its strug gle, they help its OnSMINE.
It means that the German Government, through its repres sentatives, is responsible for a conspiracy infinitely worse than any other feature of the pro- German campaign in this country, It in warms than the official sabe
sidising of an aliae press so asmail the Administration of Mr. Wilson. it is worse than the attempt to preate a party in Congress whose platform was to be war upon
And
Turning to the Guzman." Ansani- can press find the New Yerker Staats-Zeitung andemir ing the activities of the bomb plotters and deploring the desired adventurers that follow
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Selt Govertiment. Cigars.,
James Wilkins (0.84) Sir (or Madam)—Fan, to call
2nd Grade)
your attention to the three grades of ciga, now marketed by this Answer to a Complaint. Department in conformity with an Madam.It is with grostregret Order în Council, and to point that this Department has received out to you that they fail the from you the communication in conditions laid down" by," the which you allage that a new laid Government's Advisers. agg supplied to you on the 17th We have reason to believe that instant was not up to the standard, the Flor de Cabajos is a sound of fresh specified by, the Act article of the prios of five forms, Gao, V., 1238, Cap, 15, and retum shilling. therewith the egg in question,
haly be called desperately heros to the British part of Hongkong. John Kollste was in coimunud
a shipped the thirty Chin whoss- preference" swan k English money ove laws, and made dermey including a-banquet, patronised by Sir Fobs Governor, ykörmö Cochine the Ox Chiefs of the Fest" zod loading residente, at the
sion-of-which the junk. The Flor de Coliflera at four guns, and our mo In reply, I am to direct your for a shilling is osturated to to the salute: Ther of alle attention in the first place to the smoke fraftily. fact that the egg reached us in s The Flor de Millionairo, at Line Keying had. shipped condition, that is to say, there for a shilling, will no doubt :800 tons. She was not in the condition parched, appeal to exigent tastes. which would in any case invalt Ism to point out to you that date your claim to compensation. the enclosed order form, must be
with in “extranám
feet, and a depth feet. She was bu contrary to Loa
scale and zeaxar the bandquarters American trade in the interest of s in the train of a gem. War, And of intrigue, will soon be taken"; group of European belligerents, ie, the New Yark Deutsches and The Herald is convinced that it is worse than the systematized, Journal we encounter the theory in the second place, that the completely filled to. You are o
was plainly stamped "Lail Yespecially to state and have certified her planks wato pit the disclosures thus far only slandering of American business that Fay is not a German suali terday at the Government pool your age; you are to obtain prior to the mibodas scratch the surface.” Mr. Fsyen and capitalists which bare but an English agent provocateury farm, which is in itself evid-signatures from an educational mbrt. She bad for however, while amazingly fraak fruit last summer in the early To quote in admitting his own part in the successful effort of a scoundrel to
"What judicious people have one of suitability for slimentary authority, from Government of fromwood, the
oonant priem.
medical officer, and from a banker ku immense pole 90 conspiracy, socks to convince un murder Mr. Horgan.",
suspected from the beginning,
Nevertheless, this Department as to your moral, physical and of the gu that it involves no “men higher
* the Pittsbary namely, that the talkative * Lisu- is prepared to submit the egg to financial Fraser-to smoke cigars and imagine up,” at least on this side of the Gazette-Timer we read :
tenent Fay was neither & Ger the Sadgment of the Government and two duplicate, tamounted with the water, and ha specifically states “However distasteful to German officer nor a member of the Analyst, on payment by yourself photographs of yourself, certified "square yar that his plans were frowned upon many the munition-business may German Secret Service, but an of the prescribed fee, and I beg on the back, are to accompany the whatever. by Captains Boy-Ed sad von be, and whatever the moralivier English ögent provceaten, is to enclose the socont and request application Any false" declara- Her mils new made of stont Papen, of the German Embassy, involved in it, it is legal and recurring more and more con that a cheque for one guises ton will render you liable to a
matting, ribbed skincar who advised him to make Canads permissible, and the German firmation Yesterday the rugge be forthcoming at your exriest fine of forty shillingsar imprison three feet by strong bainbo the field of his operations. The Government has no more right to don had already been pas for-
ment for one month, st. the dis- were bousted in tan malik by convenience... New York Evening Sun, which interfere with is in United States ward that Fay was no Germsa si Thave the banoar to be, etc,cration of the Court.. :
singla rope of immense scan form- finds his cory, more plausible serritory than the United States all, but an Irishman in the pay of
Trusting that we may have the ad of plaited ratta di semin than credible, thinks it unbeliev- would have to mir in with the British Secret Service whom
honour, to be favoured with your Wandir ch gemte shie that these men were without Germany's war-programme on the business was to embroil as many
arder...
dimensions, weighing sine tons financial backers in the United Continent.
prominent German-AmericanE AS
and it took the entire crew kero Stator. The purpose of Fay's “All of Germany's emcessions possible in his concocted plot and
hour to hoist it f confession," as this paper sees in the matter of controvacsies then to give them away si a suite
it, is to transfer the higher growing out of her submarine at-able moment. On the English responsibility in toto to persons tacks involving, Americans, and in Germany, that is to say, to per- her solenn
protestations of
aids this was expected to have a gigantic effect upon public opin on here and upon the position of the Administration. We can in New Jersey were scting not escape the suspicion that *German intrigaers in this authoritatively for the Berlin Washington is anxious to format country, including the military Government. In fact, such a de- the came se soon se possible. attache, ware deep in schemes, velopment would, render suspect | for an special counsel of attorney, Isst summer, to produce a German the entire later correspondence or even special instructions, haya supply of explore materials in with Germany and remove the been sent, here to root up this the United States. At the time favourable impression created by German conspiracy." it was hard to see why they should Ambassador Bernstorff's want to make such materials bare, ments and swurances. whence they could not be exporte ed to Germany."
sons beyond the reach of American friendship, would go for naught justice. And glancing backward if it should turn out that this trio a few months, it adda:
To a statement from the Ger man Embassy in Washington that its attaches are frequently approached by “fanatics” who want to sink ships or destroy buildings in which munitions a75 made, the New York World replies:
Dot
THE STATE STYLE,
When the industries of thist
(peripro.) The Assistant Quarter
master-General
your
Collection of a Debt. Sir,You are informed that The
setilacment of the monthly account for lla. 241 is now four days ovardus. The statutory three days of grace having expired. you are notified that the matter he be placed in the hands-of the Judicature, and that a sam- mons to appear before the Court will reach you în daa'coares SALE You are further· informed ther any failure se pay the prescribed
I am (Sir or Madam), etc., Deputy Assistant Secretary
to the Sales Manager.
--London Opinion."
THE-KEYING.
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ship, and westrad it, with of the bow! The zułỏee-wuži
coas at the due date will result A Hongkong Venture of 1845-7 ergo ions, andkis owald-be hd in the confiscation of your shayaME: { and personal property."
I am. Bir, your abadient and
bamble Servant,
The Chief Accountant,
ter Postponing Payment by a
And finally, I am so you that favourable com
Chinese, haying ALSO
high rank
ed at pleasure, by meansɔof: tura windlasser fixed on the ropa ba?
all other-com herself an
"Early last spring, scoording
The Keying: had, an căm- Who remembers the junk Kay- Tay, Dz. Kienzle, then living
menen sozaleration; huboth dh ing? aaka “T. E. E.* in a most. in New York, wrote a latter to bis Fay and his colleagues are said
interesting article in the Journal bow and stars, the for father, Harbert Kienzle, who is to have spent some $30,000 on Md of the Black Forest Clock their experiments and prepara
of Commerce. She was the first sing abure the tractie. vernment Publisher. ** Chinone taped wear brought, to nearly 39 feet and tha kamer Company, of Schwenningen, iptions in the last six months, sad
Madsen, -I tavs to acknowledge Europë, se več ks the first which 45! Each bow, was decorsted Wartemberg the largest clock ather rumours credit them with the
country, in response to popular your communication of the 2016 had romded the Cape of Good rast solemn saying eye wh making firm in the world. With ommand of very large sums of
clamour, are taken orar by the ultimo, in which you press for the Hope. From the look of her on superstition, enabled the
fing: accordance"; with: £hi his letter he wnclosed a number of money. From whom did this "If that is the case, why do Government, we may expect payment of royalties account on would think that she had bee newspaper-clippings abowing the financial backing come?" asked
the gentlemen who hare Gepartmental favour in the one your novel. The Fireballar it by soushody who bail more sober way scotheq susage of varions ships from the Indianapolis News; and in gal standing in this country, omary correspondence of bustings of Love
moner than he knew what to do interior was alarming! American ports with munitions, the Boston Transcript we read :
and who are here to come extent Der Something like sugar Ism to point out to you that with but on the contrary, the of the lead an for the Alfés, detailing manifests
These men had in their pos apon honour, deliver these fan-Acknowledgment of so
the Department is greatly over was designed to (although she of the Calential Emp of their cargoes, and specifying session so great a quantity of high tics" to the authorities ? ***. Sir, I have the bosour 13 ack-worked, and at this time of year, didn't make an honest penny in indeed, the stings, sad. Various railroads engaged in the explosives, so much destructive But whether the instigators of nowledge your estsemed favour when many of the subordinate the ordinary, way, Alas, however, or client fr transport of munitionspartial apparatus, so large and elaborate these illegal activities are Ger- of the 5th instant, inquiring the officials are on holiday, it is a for the hopes of her enterprising entirely different from the arly the New York Central and the an organization of murder, and man officials in German or Ger- price at which this Department master of extreme inconvenience proprietors, she was broken up ping of any other nation. New York, New Haven & Hartford. so many written evidences of man sympathizers in the United is prepared to furnish you a to refer to the ledges take on the beach at Rock Ferry, close intrepid Captain holes
Other clippings sold how direction from one source above States, these arts, many papers wholesale with a quarter-dozen of Tam farther to point out feat to where the Great Eastern after- Kollect
| and aftag, a toleralstyr vations firms, meinding the Allie them that the supposition that point out, are no less stupid than specified quality
your novel has not received Press (wards came to berend Chalmers Company, manufactar they are mere amateurs or self- they are criminal. Thas in the The contents of your communi- notices of the nature expected, What was this uricas shape the Keying rom ees of machinery, with plante at inspired conspirators is precluded. New York Journal of Commerce cation have bees daly noted, and and has been, s. 8OU
of great liba? She left Hongkong on 1841, off whic, byż Cape of Good Hops. Chicago, Milwaukee, Saranton. There seems to be a deliberate we read s
in reply, Lam directed to inform dissatisfaction to
December 8, 1886 in charge of ■ and West Allis, Wis, and the organization, apparently with its
had experienced. “Nothing has done the case you that the matter will be subment.
trass of solve English and thirty-hurricane, danng Brown-Sharpe Company, of Prom source of inspiration at the hotel of Germany in this war faces ject to investigation, and that an vidence, had turned over their in New York
where harm in the estimation of the suswer will be returned to you plants in great messure to the the German Ambasador makes people of this country than these in due course. manufacture of munitions..
his headquarters, with a war- schemes, vainly designed to help
I have the bosous to bayale, When the Secret Servios broker, evidently American, for the camse by committing crimes
The Secretary in the Resistant sated the military authorition for the destructive parohsses, with on its behalf. This applies to the General Manager, a good man for a difficuls pisce an automobile to convey the ardestruction or the attempt to des- Rebuke to the Office Boy. of work Fay was elected, and periments to lonely spots in the tray works the risk of also
The Offos Manager presents his went to see Jemen in a city in woods for the preparation of their destroying life which are ang compliments to Mr. James Wil Germszy which he refuses to engiass of death, and clear young aged in legitimate industry and king, and beza to inform him that soldiers for the execution of the trade, because the enemies of his repeated, absence from the wqthen this latter, which Dr. dangerous work....
Germany may derive benefit from Department on Wednesday star Kienzle had written to his father,
It is to be hoped that the their operation. It applies to noon can no longer be viewed was laid on a table before Fay by case will be silted to the very designs for sicking vessels at sea
indifistence. The Office Jansen. Fay was told to read it bottom. The American people which leave the ports of this Manager is reluctantly compelled and memorize the names he was more slowly in fathoming or country, and thereby not only to state Mr. Wilkins is now re- not allowed to touch the letter suspecting sa operation of this causing large loss of property, duped in seniority to date let sad then to use this information to sort. They will demand proof of but the ascrifice of lives. That January, and that his prospects idently himself when he got to the existence and the nature of these are crimes nobody can deny. of pension at the age of fifty are this country. Pena the conspiracy which is now They are excused by those guilty similarly postdated.
Hay came to New York, and alleged in New York. If these of them or in sympathy with their
*The Office Boy's Reply. immediately upon arrival went to young men are proved to have purpose, on the ground that the
Sir-1 have the honour to ack Dr. Kisnale and told him he he had an official inspiration, the nation which they are designed to nowledge your letter of exam date, was and, apparently, something German Government will certain help is fighting for its existence in which you beg to inform him of his errand in this country, ly be made -answerable for eo and sacrificing far more of life that my seniority-chipped off Staff Stanbgraphe that be was what | hase an outrage, for so frightfal and property in its defenes than and I don't get no pension at the kit allowance of"
be an attempt against the business can be involved in these plota. Hright time.
| daly placed to you |and the lives of Americans.”
there were any real excuse in this
reply, I have the honour, to Bux's Bank, and
are (leave will be allowed. shall obtaining of the neces CofE have the homon-
And to
If the German Governme kind of ples, it would not apply form you that I
of your fature writings/psy, con- bowl. She had a t cerrably be placed in jeopardy by any hang; and: All considered | Adieulties there. setion on your park.
countered before I have the honour to beste Hongkong! Sho The Assessor to the-Departm
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