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Show 'ACCUSE CONSUL OF IMPLIES Department of Justice Asserts As-serts Baron von Shack Was Aiding Fleet. SAX FRANCISCO, Dec 15. Agents of the department of justice working here Informed the attorney general today that the German acting consul. Baron E. H. von Shack, supplied the funds with which a cargo of groceries, clothing and ship chandler's supplies were bought for shipment ship-ment to Valparaiso aboard the American steamship Olson and llahony. Clearance for the vessel was refused and the cargo was unloaded. By tracing back checks It jvas found, according to department or justice representatives, repre-sentatives, that Baron von Schack drew against hla account for guns which were subsequently said to have been Placed to the credit of the agents who Mid for the cargo. These agents have disappeared and are said to be oil the way to China. William Haas, senior member of the grocery Arm from which a portion of the cargo was bought, refused to tell the tederal grand jury who was the purchaser pur-chaser and the jury voted a presentment against him, charging contempt of court. Baron von Sohack Insisted that a mistake mis-take must have been made.. "I know not the first thing about the cargo of Ulat steamer," lie said. "I can sav positively posi-tively that I had nothing to do with the supplies loaded aboard her, and I do not know who did have." The Olson and Mahony is the third vessel suspected of carrying supplies to the German Pacific fleet. One of these vessels has disappeared and the other, the American steamship Sacramento. Is in the hands of the Chilean authorities. WASHINGTON, Dec. 15. Steps tnke.n at San Francisco against persons alleged to be Implicated in the sanding of sup-piles sup-piles to German war vessels In "the south Pacific were Instituted without the knowledge of the state department or the department of justice, the local officials presumably acting under their general instructions in-structions to prevent San Francisco from being made a base for the supply of belligerent bel-ligerent ships. According to the official view, the Ger man consul or anyone else has a leiral right to purchase supplies for a warship or for any other purpose and to ship them on a vessel leaving San FranMsco. provided that the goods are plalnlv billed for a neutral foreign port, audi as 'is Valparaiso Val-paraiso in this case-. Consequently, it is assumed here that the San Francisco officials have reason to suspect the making of false manifests or the use of false clearance papers, and that the Intention was not to take the supplies to Valparaiso, but to a war ship on the high seas. The German embassy disclaimed any knowledge of the case. |