In this context we may draw attention to a telegram
from New York, published in Friday's Times, which points out bow dangerous are the maw:morns of the German emissaries in America. The telegram declares that the ramifications of the conspiracy among German-Americans to involve America in hostilities with this country are far more extensive than the public has been allowed to learn. It hints at a far-reaching plot to blow up French ships with bombs, at incendiary attacks against a factory engaged in the manufacture of supplies for the Allies, and, further, at a wholesale conspiracy to forge American passports. With regard to this last item, the correspondent states that the matter has been hashed up since the discovery of the fact that "the man higher up" in the whole affair is a member of the German Embassy at Washington. We are glad to note that the Times correspondent declares that, when the consequencea of the a,uti-British conspiracy have been pointed out, all
"real Americans" have viewed the prospect of hostilities with horror. Such a thing, they declare, is an impossibility. Unfortunately, however, in matters of this kind what may seem an utter impossibility in January can be a fact long before June. The swift changes of war are no small part of its terribleness.
