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Show uu MANY WITNESSES FOR GOVERNMENT Fifty or More to Be Heard in Karl Buenz Conspiracy Case and Expending of Money. CHARGE IS BROAD Many Acts Committed During Two Months of War to Be Proven. New York, Nov 24 The government govern-ment brought forward today more witnesses wit-nesses to prove that Karl Buenz, managing man-aging director of the Hamburg-American line, and three of his assistants, conspired to defraud the United States when they sent a fleet of American stenmsips out of American ports to supply German warships op-crating op-crating in tho Atlantic and Pacific oceans early in tho war. While counsel for the defense concedes con-cedes that $2,000,000 of German money mon-ey was expended substantially, in the manner alleged, the evidence thus far has dealt only with the expenditure of $750,000 under the direction of Captain Cap-tain Karl Boy-cdt the German naval attache. Of this amount, according to one of tho government's chief witnesses, wit-nesses, $500,000 was sent to San Francisco Fran-cisco to finance the supply ships leaving leav-ing Pacific coast ports. Charge Is Broad. The charge of conspiracy is so broad that it takes in about every act that can be proved to have been committed com-mitted in this country during tho first two months of the war in furtherance of German naval warfare. The government has fifty witnesses or more still to be heard. Members of the crews of many of the supply ships will tell of being rescued by British war vessels that sunk or captured cap-tured their ships or of getting safely back after their ships had completed their missions. v i |