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Show GERMAN EMBASSY MAKES DEMAND Call for Release of Wolfe von Igel and Return of Documents Docu-ments Seized in His Office LEGAL FIGHT EXPECTED Welland Canal Plot Organized by Prisoner Before His Employment Em-ployment on Diplomatic Diplo-matic Staff. New York, April 19. Government officials here faced a unique problem today resulting from the demand of the German embassy In Washington for the release of Wolfe von Igel and the return of documents seized in his office when he was arrested yesterday yester-day on an indictment charging him with complicity in a plot to destroy the Welland canal in Canada. Von Igel formerly was secretary to captain cap-tain Franz von Papen, the recalled military attache of the German embassy. em-bassy. Tho case seems to hinge upon the question whether the offense charged against von Igel was committed before be-fore he was employed by tho German oinhassy. It Is charged that the Welland Wel-land canal plot was organized In September, Sep-tember, 191-1 Records of the state department show that it received notice no-tice of v the appointment of von Igel as a member of the embassy staff In September, 1915 Federal prosecutors asserted that von Igel would be released only upon ii.structions from the attorney general la Washington. Diplomatic and legal battles to obtain ob-tain his lease are expected. Ambassador Visits Lansing. Washington, April 19. Count von Bernstorff, German ambassador, will confer with Secretary Lansing at 11:30 o'clock this morning. The en- dor'b request. It was revealed that the ambassador ambassa-dor went to the state department; not to discuss the submarine situation, but to make a further formal demand for the ieturn of papers which department de-partment of justice agents seized from Wolfe von Igel, private secretary secre-tary to Captain von Papen the withdrawn with-drawn military attache, iu New York yesterday. |