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...Army, in brief, had no effective fighting strength in Puerto Rico. Nobody in San Juan knew this better than did Germany's alert, inquisitive Consul Henry Freese. All he had to do to find out, if he was in any doubt, was to glance at published pictures of the farewell review staged for General Daley in March. One shot showed a battalion at Fort Buchanan, having no rifles, parading with swagger sticks...
Arrested by U.S. authorities on a technical charge of illegal entry, Werra was sent to New York City, placed in the custody of the German consul on bond. He stayed in New York about a month, touring nightclubs, telling tall tales to bug-eyed and sympathetic ladies from the German settlement in Yorkville...
...years. When he was 19, a State Department clerk at $900 a year, Elihu Root had just become Secretary of State, John Hay's Open Door in China was a reality, and the Russo-Japanese war had made Japan a world power. When young Gauss became deputy consul general at Shanghai in 1907, Teddy Roosevelt was sending the U.S. Fleet round the world in a mighty demonstration of U.S. strength...
...years Gauss served in China. Hard-boiled and short-spoken, he was not overpopular with U.S. citizens in Shanghai, where he was consul general-but he got things done. Working with Admiral Yarnell when the Japanese poured into Shanghai, he was known as a man who would not backtrack before the Japanese. When he emerged from his conferences over the administration of the International Settlement, attaches would pass word around that the consul general had won his point: "Gauss is boss...
...Guayaquil, Ecuador, a few hours after German Vice Consul Juan Ruperti had visited the German steamer Cerigo, an Ecuadorian boarding party tried to seize her. Arson beat them...