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Show BERNSTORFF AND j PARTUEAVING Former German Ambassador Arrives at Hoboken on Special Spe-cial Poses for Photographers. Photo-graphers. CAREFUL GUARD KEPT Over Four Hundred Passengers Passen-gers Booked on the Frederick Fred-erick VIII Distinguished Men Abroad. Hoboken. N. Y., Feb. 14. The spe-I spe-I cial train carrying Count von Bcrn-I Bcrn-I storff, formerly German ambassador I to tho United States and his suite j from Washington, arrived at the railroad rail-road terminal here at 6 56 a. m The train was immediately surrounded surround-ed by a guard of Hoboken police and government secret service men and no one was permitted to approch with out credentials. Count von BernstorfT and the members of his party remained remain-ed in their stateroom?, for half an hour after the train stopped, about two blocks from the dock of the Scandinav-I Scandinav-I ian-Ameriean Line steamship Frederik VIII, on which thev will sail for Copenhagen Copen-hagen at 2 o'clock this afternoon. Poses for Newspapermen. Then the count nnd countess sur I prised the group of newspapermen, I i photographers and moving picture op- erators who were permitted to pass the 'police lines bv appearing on the rear platform of their car The former ambassador smilingly acknowledged the greetings of several persons he knew and for five minutes posed good-naturedly good-naturedly for the benefit of the cameramen. cam-eramen. Although he exchanged informal remarks re-marks the count refused to submit I to an interview. At 7:37 o'clock the count and countless count-less ion Bernstorff stepped Into a I closed automobile and were taken to the pier. They had breakfast with several of their immediate friends on I I board the Frederik VIII. Train Carefully Guarded The train made no steDS between ; Washington and Hoboken. except (pauses necessary for switching. The I nineteen city blocks between the Erie yard at Weehawken and the end oi the journey were picketed with police guards The route from the train to the pier lay between lines of policemen police-men and detectives and a force of 150 Inspectors from the neutrality squad of the collector of the port was on duty at the pier. A New York police boat pushed its way up and down I among the tee floes in the Hudson' river in front of the Scandinavian-! American docks and two smaller po-j lice launches guarded tho north and south sides of the pier. Collector Malone of the port of New York with ten officials from the custom house, spent the night on the Frederik ill ready to receive the former ambassa-l dor when he came aboard. In addition to the Count and Count-, ess von Bernstorff, the Frederik VIII will carry high officials of the German embassy and a number of consular officers of-ficers from different parts of the coun I try who have availed themselves of i ! this opportupnity to get safely home. Among the latter is Dr. Karl L. Duls berg of the San Francisco consulate. Ship Carries 400 Passengers. The Fn derik YII will carry 400 pas-' sengers in her grst, and 250 in her second class cabins, the largest num ber she ever booked. Among them is the Baroness Zwledinek, wife of! I Raron Erich Zwledinek, who was de-: signated charge d'affaires of the Aus- trian embassy after the dismissal of i ' Ambassador Dumba. Another pas-j senger Is Wolf von Igei, who was arrested ar-rested in connection with an alleged : plot to blow up the Welland canal i and was permitted to leave the coun-1 try, although under $20,000 bail on I ! pending Indictments. After the count and his party hadi boarded the ship, collector Malone and I his guards lined up behind a wooden1 fence at the street end of the pier and, prevented persons other than paseen-' gers from passing. Crank Brings a Letter. To an untoward incident which oc CUlTed as the ambassador stepped from thr automobile to the pier the police attached little importance. A I .'. oung man tried to approach the party and was seized by detectives, who hur-ried hur-ried him to police headquarters. He : said he was Alfred Hopkins, 19 years old. of New York City, and had been given a letter by a man In that city1 who instructed him to hand it to the ambassador A letter was found on him, together with a horoscope and writings of astrology and astronomy. The police took possession of these and telephoned for Hopkins' relatives to come to Hoboken. The prisoner refused to tell the name of the man who gave him the letter. He said that his sole object in coming here was to deliver the letter. Von Igel Bond Lifted. New York. Feb. 14 i ... in. Btxuctlons from the state department, I a request was made to t-ederal Judge I Hand here today by United States I listrlct Attorney H. Snowden Marshall j , for cancellation of the ?jn,on0 bail! , bond of Wolf von Igel, under Indict ments charging him with participation! ! in a plot to destroy the Welland canal. The request was granted and the- de & ndant will sail with Ambassador von Bernstortf Von Igel. who was secretary to Cap-! tain von Fapen. former military at-' tache at the German embassy, has never nev-er pleaded to the indictments. Halifax. N. S.. Feb. 14. One hum, idred government officials and inpec 'tors arrived here today from Ottawa to take part in the 'examination of1 the steamer Frederik VIII, which will stap ot this port on her wav to ('open-hagm ('open-hagm with Count von Bernstorff and bis suite. The steamer, which ia expected ex-pected to arrive here Friday will not! enter the harbor until after 'nightfall j government officials said and will also depart at night. Unuiual Precautions Taken Unusual precautions are being tak-en tak-en to guard the members of the party during their stay here. The steamer will not stop at quarantine but will Star the harbor and naral patrol boats will escort her to an anchorage near shore. It wa announced that examination I of the carco would begin immediately upon the steamr's arrival to determine whether the Frederick YIII carried contraband. oo |