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Show ; GIGANTIC PLOT I IS' REVEALED : Germany Expected to Stir Up ( Japan Against the j United States. 3 New York, April 24. The work of ! secret agents of Germany in Japan j waB told in exhaustive detail in the I papers soized in the office of Wolfe von Igel at CO Wall street. It was re- li vcaled today. I The former office of Captain Franz ' von Papen was the clearing house i through which passed reports of ag- ents in the Orient particularly certain cer-tain native Japanese In the employ '. of the German government. A port- ( folio of these reports was Impounded v ljv federal agents In the raid, it was ) ' learned officially. They revenl: ; First, that Germany Is prepared to enlist to her own purposes the pres- ent wave of anti-American sentiment i In Japan. ! Second, that In the event of a break with the United States, high German 5 officialb In this country do not believe 1 it at nil unlikely that Japan could bo j induced to make peace with Germany ; separate from the former's European Third, that Captain von Papen and i his associates considered as a future i possibility and alliance between Ge;:- ; many and Japan. The seizure of these and other lm- ! portant documents in the Wall street ! suite have convinced officials that the i office was being manipulated to the 'I serious embarrassment of the Amerl can government. 3 Reacon for Gregory's Advice. ' It was for this reason that Attorney ; General Gregory today in Washlug- ton advised the state department to ' reject the demands of Embassador . von Bernstorff that the von Igel faP- ers be returned to him in toto. : Whether Count von Bernstorff will ; renew his demands when no comers with Secretary of State Lansing re-' re-' mains to be een. If the embassn-1 embassn-1 dor's attitude Is unchanged, it is considered con-sidered more than likely that his own acts as revealed in the seized documents, docu-ments, will be brought sharply into question. ' That the name of Embassador von ; Bernstorff has already been brought out in proceedings against von Igel 7 before the federal grand jury was strongly rumored today in the federal fed-eral building. A private code book of von Bern-? Bern-? Etorffs used by the embassador to communicate with von Papen and yon 5 Igel was among the Impounded flap- I ers, it was learned. This code made i plain papers which otherwise would 1 ; have remained a mystery. I Envov Fully Informed. i Construing the seized documents by -, medium of the embassador's code 3 i makes it plain that Von Bernstorff g ; was acquainted with most of tho ac- Uvitlos of the men in the New York office. -fl , , 'A ; At the time of the seizure, officials ; learned today, tho documents -were : being prepared by Von Igel for trans- x ' mlttal to the embassy in Washington- f It will ho recalled that tho oft- (m mentioned "agreement between tne $ German government and the Hamburg- M i American lino was hurried to Wasri- Ui lngton and placed In tho embassy safe i at a time when the government "was Kit eager to subpoena It. & Three files and two books were VR - seized In tho Wall street office. Tho 2A , memoranda refer among other tmngs to the Welland canal plots, passport frauds, explosions on ships carrying munitions and the .fomentations of rebellions In various colonies and dependencies de-pendencies in this hemisphere and in European countries. Plot as to Ireland. Some of the data related to a plot to start trouble in Ireland. Irish-Americans Irish-Americans of Fenian sympathies are implicated. German submarines were to operate In the scheme, y?hich had to do with the spiriting away of many of the British patrol ships through various tubcs. Germany's ambitions in Japan and in Mexico are set forth at length. The papers dissolve much of the mystery mys-tery that has centered about certain happenings In the past two years In In this connection. It Is recalled Germany has maintained a Mexican secret service bureau In New Yortf since the outbreak of the war. At Its head iS'one of the shrewdest German diplomats In Mexico. This man was formerly a prominent Bteamshlp official of-ficial in the southern republic. To his agency is attributed a great deal of ammunition which has gone to various var-ious factions in Mexico in the past couple of years. The Von Igel papers, officials say, concern Franz von Rintelen and at least two of the Tnen named with Von Rintelen in the Labor National Peace council indictments. As a result of the disclosures it Is considered certain that superseding Indictments will bo returned in both the Welland canal and the peace council cases. It was an outcome of this latter prosecution that impeachment proceedings proceed-ings were Instituted against United States District Attorney H. Snowden Marshall hy Congressman Frank Buchanan, Buch-anan, one of tho defendants. Important disclosures, it is reported, report-ed, were made before the Grand jury today. This will result from a week's visit to Chicago by United States Attorney At-torney Sarfaty. G. F. Hummell of Chicago Chi-cago testified today. Ho is a member of tho organizations calling themselves them-selves "Friends of Peace" and "Teutonic "Teu-tonic Sons" and was also indirectly affiliated with the Labor National Peace council. oo |