Show IDENTITY OF SPECIAL ENVOY I IS QUESTIONED State Department Investigates Report That Dr A. A Meyer- Meyer Gerhard Is Really High Of Official Official Official Of- Of in iii German Cabinet SHIES AT REPORTERS OF COPENHAGEN PRESS I Assertion Made That Supposed Red Cross Lecturer Was as Really in America to Purchase Put Pur chase Supplies for the War WarTO WarTO WarTO TO REACH REl BERLIN BERLI N TODAY t TO 10 TO Y 4 June 1 U Ur Anton n An- ton 1 er l he 4 of or the lie German lor nt at 4 Count von on Horn hem torre to Emperor and 4 4 t the foreign hn office nr- nr f rUeil the lie steamer here tonight on United Mate He lit ns n Cr cry ery f OU lIr on un nt at the pier n a crowd Including nev f reporters reporter and and In n a n a mm- 4 ute after he lie huil landed He lie u III f t 4 Ii to the German Cerman capital 4 tomorrow 4 j II I a. a A I 4 1 bt 1 I It by New cw York Tribune NEW STEW t YO YORK U J June Junc unc l L Go L N luent authorities has havo under inest in- in m- m est iga I ion on t the Ii C 1 rumor U a apparently vla ren ty we a 1 u t Ii t i en t ed t that h a t D Dr Dl t A Anton n ton e Gerhard leyer German Red fled Cross 5 Bernstorff's Bernstorff's Berntorff's Bern- Bern lecturer fuRl find Count von yon special envoy oy to the imperial fO tins has perpetrated a giganic gigan- gigan lie fie ic hoax on the state department of or orthe the lie United States The special emis- emis ary sary saris is to Berlin by bv way of f Norway and tonight oni ht reached cached Copenhagen J i E i knee now in ill the hands 0 oC of the tile NewYork New York Tribune leads that paper to tois assert is ert that the envoy oy emois i is none other than han Dr Or Alfred Mayer privy councillor councillor councillor coun coun- of or the first rank and chief of the he department of army supplies of the he imperial German ministry minish of war The Tribune says sas The real Dr Anton Meyer Gerhard hn hRs IBS not been out of oC Germany since c the beginning of or tho the war Avar and has been re rePorted resorted re- re sorted Ported among the wounded on the cast I front Ills His name was assumed b by Dr Meyer and the lie protecting mantle of the thc Heel fled Cross thrown about him that his Identity and true mission to the United States ml might ht not become known to o those outside Gorman German officialdom Var nr Supplier Ills lIi much advertised nd lied Hed Cross Cross- Propaganda was as a farce He lie came here hereto to purchase o such war supplies as ns ho could coull obtain and Incidentally to learn the thc condition of military preparedness In n this country countr He lie takes to the German German Gernan Ger- Ger man nan war office Information of great Krent importance which h lit lie has lias gathered in inus hi his us dealings with various munitions brokers and manufacturers Tall TalI and erect his excellency has s graced raced the lecture platform while he made nade his pleas for contributions Wearing a toupee to chiang change han e the tha ap appearance ap- ap of lila his ls somewhat bald head u inu una guIu glasses H 1 10 u his face tace ho lie has dickered with many and amI done everything c in his hla power to prevent the thc allies from oh- oh taming war material m here As a later day ay Dr HU and Mr Ir Mr Ih Hyde c he heS ha has S been u a notable Ills activities have c been carried l on with the knowledge and co operation of ot Ambassador von Aon Bernstorff In fact they arrived to together together to to- get gether her on August 21 I 1014 lH Since then the they have b been boen In close communication Now Dr Moyer Meyer armed with a n safe conduct letter Jeller from rom Mr Bryan in the name of or Meyer Gerhard has been sent back by the ambassador and tho the Gorman Gor Gor- man government is 18 awaiting his re report report ro- ro port before beron replying to President Wilsons Wil 11 sons son's last note The Tue scheme chemo worked perfectly and tho the state department apparently has i not had th the slightest suspicion that Dr Meyer Gerhard Ic er was not Dr Meyer Meyer- Icer Gerhard at all nIl It Is IH a fact however I that the French and British embassies at nt Washington did ld not Issue a safe conI conduct conduct con con- I duct guarantee ns as In the case caso of or Dr Dornburg Dernburg But nut thc they arc are said ald to have havo mn made c It plain that thal tho they would no n. no Interfere with ith an accredited of or the lied CrossD Cross D Dr Meyer played his part The Tho small whispering group that knew all about It Il recognized that Ir if the tho truth of his excellency's Identity and und business s fell Into tho the hands of oC the allies it would prove pro fatal to the success suc sue cess of the enterprise Tho The fillies allies would bo sure suro to notify the department I and It ml might ht interfere with the tho prompt return to Germany of ot a n high war var of of- of tJ cI al And nd so 60 the doctor flitted from lee lec- turoa tures In behalf of oC tho the Red fled Cross to secret conferences with great reat speed and much caution The Tho utmost discretion discretion discretion tion was nM exorcised exercised In arranging tho the various meetings ls that took place Telephone Telephone Tele Tele- phone calls were made mido from public publio station Dr Vt Meyer lived hived at the thc Ritz hotel only Intermittently and never ne registered e after his hilS first appearance there Ills other address was known to less than four people and each conference con con- ference with him was waR attended by an n nI I amazing amount of ot preliminaries |