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Show Hu"rf W'tnesses Are Summoned by U. S. Gov-trnment Gov-trnment to Testify on Conspiracy Charges. ase'is UNIQUE IN AMERICAN HISTORY V'W YORK, Nov. -0. Ouo hundred 4o witnesses, to testify a.tuist 'C Jcfioiahi of the Hamburg American W-P lina at tlu'ir tr,iil " charges Yficsp'.nu'v, which begins uot Mon-V Mon-V hv bscn summoned bv t ho sjov- l-ut it was amunuu'ivt tod;iy. The I 'rrbv will last a wivk. Tour v'.v'fjv liot'onJsnts have pleaded not aval the fifth has not beon ap-"Ve"- '1 h maximum tena!t v t or e"rit chared is two years' impri---nl UW0 fin oo oh.'U of the 't9 defendant arc Karl TWn. man-direotor man-direotor of the line, in contrul of !Prtt'fot of lier:ran merchantmen iiaers which wiled under the Ham-American Ham-American house ilai Adolph -ft'iMifister, purchasing agent of trio , "joserh Poper.kaus, a svutul officer t the line's emplov; ieorgo Kouer, i-f-iater.aent of the lino, and Fciix -Vr. alleged supercargo on one of 'r which wiled with Mintdios l aii or German cruisers. iSetYner has jt N?ea found. ' ctif unique in American juris-- juris-- i?r.c faces rhem conrirsev to de-H.l de-H.l and deceive the nu eminent by clearance papers on false rep- -iSi'-ie-as. To facilitate the trial, - for the detene admits that the fesiiats chartered certain ships and s;"ta with supplies to the German '.;$rs Karlsruhe, Kaiser W iiheltn and '-er Gerxan men-of-war active id the I "sriic ic the late summer and earlv i o: ly 14. as charged, but denies that acts cor st iiute a conspiracy to 'fi'i: or deceive the Untied State?. :i n. it ; claimed, was to de- ViVf tte allies instead. Affidavits Are Taken. $?!! did the German scent know wit as inevitable the govern-r: govern-r: barges, that some of the fiiteeu . invoiced wore chartered weeks be-rt be-rt "i ar begn and several actuaJ-t actuaJ-t a:!fd on their alleged errands of wht V?r? war had aotca-ly been declared. ;:r?ort the and other charges nn-"j nn-"j affidavits havA been takn by ; zortTr.eQt- One of them relates to an oeourrenea aboard the Maria uesada. a rteamer sailinjj from New- ort News. 'a., tu tletobor, U'H, os-U-uiblv for ali-araiso. This .steamer, tite itoverumont eharpes, had aboard a Herman supercargo, :t did all the other vessels involved. When the steamer failed to find the Herman cruiser she was seeking, the affidavit recites, she cruised about for some time and finallv put into I'ernambuco. The llrariltan authorities, apparently suspicious, sus-picious, sought her papers. These, the affidavit continue, the captain refused to surrender, but placed them in ft bae, sni threw them overboard. He then notified the lirur.ilian cruiser sent out to him that he bad lost his papers. j Several days later, the affiant states i under oath, the papers. Lai: and all, were found in the belly ol a shark which some IraT.ilians had ruptured and drawu upon shore. Supplies Purchn.-ed. lu another instance, accordinc to Ii.ig.'r 11. Wood, the assistant district attorney in charge of the prosecution, the pnverpincnt Is prepared to prove, that the Hauiburjc-Amencao line paid i;;.Vj,oi to tiie owners of an American vce-el hi''h had been sol.l ucder a I Brlin-ii pri'e court order. Tbe vessel was th Lorenz, whi-'h sailed August 6, ll'U. from New York, wita supplies, it is charged, for tierman ermsers in the West Indies, and the amount represented represent-ed ber full value. i Seven hundred and fifty thousand ! dollars of German money, the defendants defend-ants admit, was speDt iu chariertug and outfitting four vet-eels for relief of the cruisers. This money, the government is prepared to prove, according to Mr. Wood, was piaced in a New York bank to the credit of a man who waa told to srend it under direction of t aptain K. ilov-ed. the German naval attache, and was spent in accordance with these instructions. Millions, of dollars, the government computes, were spent in chartering and supplying the filtcen vessels which fijrire id the charges. What these vessels sought to carrr to the German cruisers, the government govern-ment charges, was virtually a complete list of the cruisers' needs, from cigars, w ine and ciparctu- to coal, fresh water, saner kraut and lubricating oil. In two instances, it is charged, complete water condensing apparatus was carried so that the salt sea water might be condensed con-densed for drinking purposes. Dates of Sailings. Among the. many men under subpoena sub-poena bv the government is an eye witness of th naval battle in the fall of 1914 between the German and British Brit-ish cruiEers ap Trafalgar aDd Car-mania. Car-mania. The Cap Trafalgar was "sunk in this fight and the Cairnnnia almost -hared her enemv's fate. It is charged that the Cap Trafalgar was ono of the German warships to wbi.-b the defendant defend-ant sought to send supplies. Two of the fifteen ships, It Is .-barged, sailed from Pacific porta and two others, the Fram and Sommor6tad, were to have sailed from Philadelphia, but did not because the government was advised of their alleged plans. The other eleven ships, the dates of their sailings, all in 1914, the ports from which thev cleared and the ports given as their destinations follow: Berwind, American, August 5, from N'ew York for Buenos Aires; Lorenzo, : 1 merican, August 6, from New Y'ork j ' for Bneaos Aires- Thor, Norwegian, i August 3, from Newport News for, Buenos Aires; Atina, Norwegian, 1 August 7, from Philadelphia for l.a Guayia; N'epos, Norwegian, August 2a, j rfrom Philadelphia for Monrovia: .Mow-i .Mow-i inckel, Norwegian. September a, from i Philadelphia for Monrovia; Unita Nor-I Nor-I wegian September 8, from Philadel-nhia Philadel-nhia for Cadiz: Uraecia German, , August 27, from New York for Cadiz; ' Macedonia, American, August 20, from tkew Orleans for Cadiz; Navarra, hep- i tomb" 5. fr"m Pen"8001"' Fla- f10r ?er' i nambi.co, and the Maria Quesada formerly for-merly the Gladstone, which sailed Oeto-I Oeto-I her, '1914, f"1 NwPrt Nows for Val- paraiso. ' |