File No. 701.6211/347
The German Ambassador (Bernstorff) to the Secretary of State
[Received December 20.]
My Dear Mr. Secretary: In connection with the arrest of Mr. Koenig, a _German citizen, H. D. Wilckens, employed as Office attendant and messenger by Mr. Albert in New York, has been subpoenaed by the Federal Grand Jury of New York to-morrow.
I presume that this course has been taken, because it was not known that Mr. Albert is connected with this Embassy as commercial attaché. To prevent a recurrence of such incidents I beg to inform you that besides the above-mentioned messenger the following three German citizens are employed in Mr. Albert’s office as his assistants and secretaries: Fritz Borgemeister, Carl Heynen, Georg Hoffmann.
[Page 808]I had the honor of informing your excellency in my note of yesterday that paymaster Reicke will continue the current business of our naval attaché, and I now beg to add that Mr. von Igel, a German citizen, secretary of Captain von Papen, will continue the current business of the military attaché, until His Majesty the Emperor has appointed successors to those attachés.
I remain [etc.]