THE FULTON COUNTY NEWS, McCONNELLSBURG, PA. NUOIIS ACTIVITIES SPY RING LI BARE R DISCLOSURES SHOW PERFIDY E-German Ambassador Revealed as tha Interests of the United States Possibility That Congress Will Un dertako a Thorough Investigation of the Matter. Following Is the most ttartling and far-reaching exposure of the actlvl ea of Germany's spy ring In America yet made public. Every ctatement Us been compiled by the United States committee on public Information from official document j In the possession of the government, which hitherto Have been withheld from the press. BY THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC INFORMATION. Ahnnndlng additional revelation T Count v..n BernKlorlT's direction of Cenmm plots In the United Stnle amilo It eerlulii congress will under sake a thorough Investigation. The liivesllsiitloii will be -t H-l " soon ns the slate tlcpiirtiiicnl give Jhe rongrescloiml lenders I In? word. The disclosures, giving m-iiies Count von BcrnstoifTs pay roll. led lying amounts, vi-ttlns forth (lt'tnlls jinn to bomb iminllloii plnnt nml llmr r.p shipping, to spread (lemnli iropncimli. mid to foment tlx- Irish trlN-lllon. were Issued through tli' com all Ice on public Inforiwitloii. T fcct nml rt mini" cmnui ..- fcRtOn I1I..V Willi UIWlWMIlellt in V.ulncsx of tln K'Hiie I'layd tllf the Cmnsn enilmssy. List of Perrons Involved. Too list of well-known persons who an alleged to huve come under the Influence of fount von Beriistorff ns jlven In tli disclosures. Includes: Justice Daniel F. Cohalan of the New York supreme court. Jeremiah A. O'Leary of the Ameri an Truth roclety. Edwin Emerson, the correspondent James Archibald, the correspondent. Jchn Devoy of New York city, edi r of the Gaelic American. Ray Beveridge, the California artist C J. Waldron of Medusa, N. Y. T. J. Dowling of Hartford, Conn. Parous Braun, editor of Fair Play. George Sylvester Viereck, editor of e Fatherland, or as It Is now called, TierecVs Weekly. Otto West, proprietor of the Hour Class, 303 Fifth avenue. Paul Kcenlg, manager of the secret service of the Hamburg-American ttcamship line. Cart A. Heynan of the Hamburg American line, formerly acting Bra ilian consul in Mexico City and for a time In charge of American con sjilar Intereits there. Vanjing Absolves Congress. rtiven out it nn olhYltil document. 4tt sped lie rvltl-iice UniiiiiK fount von enistorlT up with tin- riitnlllcntions of terrtinii Intrigue and propnsiiiulii In tie Unite.! States provoked congress en to clamor for nn investigation. To rltiir congress Immediately of any suspicion which the state do artmeiifs revolution nny have direct tl unwittingly nt Its members. Socro Jnry l.-nwln,' dictated tin1 following statement : "If there Is nny misunderstanding. 3 film II sny emphatically I do not see loir tli Bcrii.stoiff inesnge In nny way it Herts upon emigres or nny ik-inli.r. Apparently It as tho pur sow to employ agencies to Influence ,.1 i,f which Ihi'V would have no lmitiMse. nnd In ruse they were lii furwvit would he entirely Innocent. 1 iln not I; now wlmt the nrgnniwitioii Wan. Till expose Is apropos of ter tian method of pence propaganda nnd Jhere Is no Intenllon of rusting suspi cion on tneinhers of congress." TVituIn n few days a Ccrmnli news fnrtcr published In this poiinlry em ployed ns n headline to nn article ilenl fcg with n rumor of Cermiin-Anierlciin tfsnuVrtion in this country the del is-h-e It-Rend. "I.leU'- Wnshlnuton, mnst TOlllR M ill." Thin Is, of course, n parody on the Hfmln of "Ile Wii-ht inn Ilheln." the ' Ceniinn m.tionnl hymns: "Lleh Viiterlniid. imiKst ndilR ncin." "Lover fntlieiliind, be restful (or un alMlurhei))." In the pnrody It enriies n sneer com ensihle only to one who understands Ific (Jerninn mode of speech und IhoiiKht. Typifies Propaganda. Of Itself th" liisti.rtce Is slight. I'.ut typltlcN n Pertnln Import n nt phiise it the :rnnnn propi pnndn which null ify hut persistently necks to present Cennnny's course In Amerlon In the jnost fuvondde llc'it. c-ven to the ex Jenl of defouliim the Improper netlv nipn of the Teiitonte (llp'omntie rcpre fntntivpM hefore their pnssports were jlvrn them. lTiiuse f th!s continuiii'.' propn (aniln pertnln documents In the pos arwion of the ilepiirtmeiit of Justice ' rnr nssumcs peeiillnr Importance. In tiit they prove undcnlr.hly the Intl natc rcliitlons between the necredi'ed trpn-sentn lives of the kaiser In the Toiled States nnd plotters against the fcws nnd the security of this eountry, trhfrse pnterprlse did not fall short of jmjppteil wholesale destruction of life and property. Office It Established, uch of these document as were es fential to lenal proeeertlngs brought ilnnt the Oermans have been pub hco. Others are here made pubtlo tor the first time. They form a curious dlsjolnteo, chapter In the diplomatic klatnry of tho war. In the fall of 1914. when the German ylota airnlnat Canada wera fomentlnK aa this country, there waa established, at CD Wall afreet, an "advertising" of flce presided over by a bl(t. auave man M Teutonic aBpect named Wolf von Jtrel. There were two peculiar features boot tills ofllce. One wna that It was frequented during two years of singu HAY MAKE WAR0N AUSTRIA Senator King Sees Spread of Conflict as Result of Revelations of Spies' Activities. Washington. A tlecl unit ion of wnr m Austria, Bulgaria nnd Turkey wits prophenlcd by Senator King when he Introduced to the Rcntite's attention n M cf voucher facsimiles of money paid by the German and AustWnn em fcuaies na subsidies to publications embraced the cause of the cen OF KAISER'S HIM OF VCN BERNSTORFF Head and Front of Plots Aimed at larly quiet and unbusinesslike exist ence chiefly by Hermans who had noth ing whatsoever to ilo with advertising. The other was a large safe, bearing the Insignia of the ttcrman Imperial gov ernment. One morning In April, 1319. govern ment secret service men visited this snrnc Wall siret l ouicc wnne on m-i was preparing a mass of papers which lie had taken rrom the :ire lor iraus. fer to tho Orman embassy In Wash' ington. Find Lists of Spies. When the pnpers were exumlned by the department of Justice the renaon for Von Igel's determined ngnt Decame ap parent. Mere. In tho form of letters, telegrams, nutations, checks, recepts. ledirers. rashhooka, cipher codes, lists of spies, and other memoranda and rec ords were found Indications In some Instances of tho vaguest nature. In others of the most damning conclusive ni-ss that the Oerman Imperial gov ernment, through Its representatives In a then friendly nation, was concerned with: ' Violation of the laws of the United Klatea. Destruction of lives and property In merchant vessels on the high seas. Irish revolutionary plots against flreat II rl tain. Fomenting 111 feeling against the I'nlt.wl Htittea In Mexico, Subornation of American writers and lecturers. Financing of propaganda. Maintenance of spy system under the guise of a commercial Investiga tion bureau. Subsidising of a bureau for the pur none nf stlrrlno: ud labor troubles In munition nUnta. The bomb Industry and other related actlvltlea. Koenig-Von Papen Commerce Bureau. Perhaps the most Illuminating single document In the collection la a letter of Jniv 10 191S. reproduced aa It ap peared upon the atatlonery of the "Bu reau of Investigation." Thla Innocent, nretrndinff agency was at the outaet the secret aervice of the Hamburg' American Steamship company. Under Pmil Koenlg. Its manager. It became an adjunct to the German diplomatic secret rvlce. "XXX" 18 me secrel Designa tion of Koenlg. who Is now under In- riiKtinpnta nn criminal charges In con nectlon with thla "diplomatic" work. and Is Interned at Fort Oglethorpe. The person represented by the figure "7.000" la Captain von Papen, former millinrv attache of th German em bassy and the practical executive of Ita underground system. The document de- ..rhn the subterfuges of "XXX' (Ko' nig) so that he might not b- Identified by the mysterious when they met. "XXX" states that money waa to be drawn for the payment of 1150 to the unnamed person, under peculiar precau tions, through "Check No. 149 on tho nines National bank. Washington. d:ited July 18. payable to- .inni amount $150. No rea son was given as to why the payment was made." says the report Bombs in Coal. Several days after the payment the recipient called at the -passenger or nf the line" and made a slate ...! whh'h la thus embodied In tho YVV rennrt. ".My name Is I have an office . ii,, building, but I do not care i,-, itta mv local address. I Intend to m-rlous damage to vessels of the alllis leivlng ports of the United States i.v nhiciim bombs, wliicn 1 am maKing -iu.-ir nn board. These bombs re ...miii,.' nrdin.iry lumps of coal, and I am planning to have them concealed In ti, cn:il to be laden on steamers of ii,.. ,.iii. " i.-i.,iiv XXX utates that "tho caller" brought with him a sample bomb, "such as has been described to you by . i,- iihKcrlber." and asks for the ln- ut.tmllnlDl. The document Is lettered at the foot, n It to 7000. Indicating mai wia bo ere! na:ent known as "O. K." had trans mitted It to Von Papen. Check Is Traced. Now for the proof, d!re"t and unes capable. Check 146 on the Rlgtfs Natlon ul hunk has been traced and added to the secret service collection. It Is pay able to Koenlg and signed by. Von Papen Therefore Von Papen stands convicted. on the evidence of a report claimed as nn otllclal document by the Germans, of payln? money to a plotter designing to blow up merchant ships sailing from the port of New York. The person who made this report Is known to department of lustire ottlclals. Compare these documents with the fol lowing authorised statement trom tier lln. transmuted by wireless for publlca Hon In the New York Times In December, 131,1: "The German government has. nat urally, never knowlmtly accepted the sup port of any person, group of persons, so clety or organization seeking to pro mote the cause of Germany In the United Slates by lllciral acts, by rounsol or vl olence. by contravention of law, or by nny means whatever that could offend the American people in the pride of their own authority. Destruction was not by any means the sole Interest of Koenlg's 'enorgetic bureau. It concerned Itself also with spv enterprises. To Koenlg wrote Otto West, an American citizen and pro prletor of the Hour Glass, at 303 (or 363) Fifth avenue, recommending a rela live of his who, according to his de scrlptlon, must be an Interesting and somewhat formidable figure. Mr. West's description, somewhat curtailed, follows: "He Is a grandson of the late Ober hnfpredlger Strauss of Berlin, brother of the preaent Mllltar Ouerpfarrer Strauss of Potsdam, nephew of the lata Admiral von Schlelnlts,, the late General von Man ley, etc. Thla gentleman changed hla name some twenty odd years ago to an Artier lean nnme, and none of his associates sus pacts his German birth or antecedents. He Is an International Journalist of great repute, for years at the head of a news paper organization In England. "He has a personal reason to be very bitter against England, because two years ago (this letter appears to have been written about June 1, 1915, which would make the dnte referred to the early summer of 1913) a certain attncl waa made against him over comments matters In Great Brltnln, and It wa only by appealing to the United Staiea tral empires. This was the sequel to Friday's pub lication of Count BernstorfTs letter asking Ms home ofllce for funds where with to purchase $50,000 worth of In fluence on congress. ' There were n lot of other sequels, for even the replies of Germany nnd Austrln to the pope's peace note did not take Washington's nttention for the revelation of the milliner in which the German nmhassndor attempted to Interfere In. the policy of this country and to buy public opinion and legisla lepartment of state nnd a writ of hahear corpus liefore the lord chief justice o: Rnglanl that he e."i;ipi.l hii cesslully He was In Ktiglund and Prance at the outbreak of the war: he has ac cess to the great tounes of British ami trench olllclal Information. He wants tr go across lo Kurope and serve secretly for aermany." Here's a Pseudo Labor Agency. Closely rein ted to nnd to some extent under the guidance of Von Icel was the Qerrnan and Austro-Hungarlan labor Information nnd relief bureau, with central headquarters at 136 Liberty street. New York city, and brandies In Cleveland, Detroit. Bridgeport. Pitts burgh, Philadelphia and Chicago. The head of thla enterprise waa Hans I.le- bau, from whom It took Its familiarly accepted nume of the "I.lebnu Employ ment agency. That the Austro-Hungarlan embassy had taken olllclnl cognizance nf the bu reau Is disclosed In the letter written by the ambassador to the Austro-Hungarlan minister for foreign affairs which was found in the possession of Jarnes F. J. Archibald by the British authorities August 30. 1915. After Ammunition Plants. In this letter the ambassador stated: "It Is my Impression that we can dls- ognnlze and hold up for months, If not entirely prevent, the manufacture of munitions In Bethlehem and the middle West, which. In the opinion of the Ger man military attache, is of importance and amply outweighs the comparative ly small expenditure of money involved; but even If the strikes do not como off It la probable that we should extort, under pressure of circumstances, more favorable conditions of labor for dur poor, downtrodden fellow countrymen. Ho far as German workmen are found In the skilled hands, means of leaving will be provided Immediately for them. Besides this, a private Ger mi.n employment office has been estab lished which provides employment for purs ins who have voluntarily given up their places, and It Is already working well. We shall also Join In, and the widest support Is assured us." The following representations on be half of the bureau'a etllcloncy were made, und r date of March 24, 1910. In a letter to the German ambassador. Von Bernstorff. "Engineers and persons In the better class of positions, and who had means of their own. were persuaded b tne propaganda of the bureau to leave war material factories. Cause of Strikes. The report comments with uncon cealed amusement upon the fact that munitions concerns Innocently wrote the buroau for workmen (which, or course, were not furnished) and continues In reviewing later conditions In the muni tions Industry. The commercial employment bureaus of the country have no supply of unem ployed technicians. , . . Many dis turbances and suspensions which war material factories have had to suffer and which It waa not always possible to remove quickly, but which, on the contrary, often led to long strikes, may be attributed to the energetio propaganda of the employment bureau Von Igels close connection witn tne enterprise Is Indicated by a number of Items. For example, tnere is a noia tlon to the effect that H. Sanson had established a Llebau branch office In Detroit, an entry of 10 paid to Dr. Max Nlven of Chicago In February. 191S. for tha "labor fund" and an Inquiry ad- dreased by a bureau official to Von I gel asking whether the Bosch magneto works manufactured fuses for shells. the bureau having evidently been ap Dlled to for workmen for the Bosch plant. The reply, In the negative, atated that the company was "univer sally known for Its friendly attitude for the Germans. John Devoy and "Irish Revolution." Several lines of communication be tween the German dlplomatlo service and the Irish revolutionary movement nre indicated In the raptured docu ments. John Devoy of New York city, now editor of the Gaelic American, a violent antl-Brltlsh paper, was ono of the active agenta of this connection. Siornlltcant entries appear" here and there; references to messages from the Germnn embassy at Washington and the German consulate at New York; mention of a secret code to be employed In communicating with him and or a 'cipher Devoy, also a notation, the detaila of which remain undiscovered, concerning "communication re manu facture hand grenades. Devoy It was who acieu, lor a nine at least, as go-between lor me uermun secret service dealings with Sir Roger Casement, executed by the British for treason. There ara several references to money and messages tor sir noger Casement, or, mure brlelly K. c, ; and one record of a check ror si.uw for case ment, evidently handled by Devoy. Letters to Bernstorff. Pevoy's intimate connection with the German cause is disclosed In two letters to Ambassador von Bernstorff, the texts of which follow: New j ork, April . wis. The following communication from confidential man John Devoy was duly transmitted: Letter dated March ZZ. delayed by censor, seems conclusive mai nrsi mes senger arrived safe with proposal to send supplies and that cable was suppressed. Second also safe. Third, with change of plans, due about April 15. John Devoy runner requests inai mo following telegram ba dlspalche.1 to air Roger Casement: No letter now possible. All runus sent home. Sister and M.'s family wen. Should Sir Roger be absent or in, men J. D. requests that the telegram De de livered to John Monteith. k. n. at. To His Excellency, the Imperial Ambas sador, Count von Bernstorff, waentnng ton. D. C. "New York, April 15. 1919. "Herewith Inclosed a report re ceive! by us today from John Devoy. Kindly order further steps to be taken. The Important parts of the report were sent there today per telegram. (3. copy.) To the Imperial Ambasador, Count Von Bernstorff, Washington, D. C." As to Arrest of Roger Casement In view of the Involvement of these prominent Irlsh-Amorlcart leaders In the Casement plot and Its uerman raminca tlons, It Is little to be wondered at that thev should have endeavored to snoul- tier upon the American government the responsibility for the arf'st of Casement. The Oaelic-Amerlcan, Decoy's paper, and the sympathetic German-American press charged this government with having, on the strength of Information obtained from the seized Von Igel papers, advised the British government of the revolutionary nlnt and Casement s part therein. The department of state and the de partment of Justice promptly refuted the charges. When the Von Igel papers wera selzod In New York the district attorney and his assistants busied them selves In a search for Information to sustain the Indictments which they had obtained against Von Igel, and over looked for the time being the great mass of other evidence which pointed incnm Inatlngly to others. Want Cohalan Senator. Danartment of Justice officials admit that tha Doners relating to Casement were sent to Waahlngton the night be fore Casement's arrest was reported, hut thev were not received by the attor ney veneral until the afternoon of the flav upon which the British authorities niotirt nn the Irish leader, and were not presented to the state department until tion. Von BernstorfTs messnges were In code the German code nnd they went through Swedish channels. Congress whirled and sputtered nbout it all day Saturday. Despite the declaration of the secretary of Klnte that the obvious Inference of the Bernstorff letter was that the $50,000 was to go to tho propaganda agents, nnd that no congressman wos, even Indirectly, accused of having got a penny of i'-, und clumor for an Inves tigation reaounded through the corri even o clone that evening. Meanwnne, t'aaement had Bpent several hours in on Iflsh prison. It IS not Improbable that tbfl slitnatuic at tho bo' torn of the extraordinary message which fcillows Is In tho "cipher lievoy referred to In the Von Igel pa pers. New York Supreme Court Jus tlce Daniel F. Cohalan has long been prominent In Irish-American circles, though he has never been directly Iden tified with violent action. That Judge Cohalan, however. Is held In high favor by the pro-German ele ment of this country Is evidenced by the fact that Vlereck's Weekly, In making selections recently for the most Impor tant political offices In this country, puts him forth for the position of United States senator from New York. "Help la Necessary." The communication as translated Into Von Igel's record la typewritten, Una for line, below a cipher, except for the sig nature, which remains untranslated from the original cipher figures. It Is dated New York, April 17. 1916, numbered 333 16, and Inscribed at the top "Very Secret." "New York, April 17. 1916. "Jourge Coholnn requests the trans mission of the following remarks: "'Tho revolution In Ireland ran only be successful If supported from Ger many, ntherwlse England will be able to suppress It, even though It be only after hard struggles. Therefore help Is necessary. This should consist pri marily of aerial attacks In England and a diversion of the fleet simultaneously with Irish revolution. Then, It pos sible a landing of troops, arms, nnd ammunition In Ireland and possibly some officers from Zeppelins, This would enable the Irish ports ta be closed against Englnnd and the establishment of stations for submarines on t lie Irish coast and the cutting ofT of the supply of food for England. The services of the revolution may therefore decide the war.' "He asks that a telegram to this ef fect bo sent to Berlin. "D132 8167 0230. "To His Excellency "Count Von Bernstorff. "Washington. D. C." Code Message to Moeblus. Along this same line Is a code mes sage by wireless to Banker Max Moe blus. Oberwalstrasse, Berlin, which Is Interesting chiefly ns showing the code method of important communications practiced by the German olllclal plot ters In this country. The codo trans lation was found with the copy of the message amom Von Igel's papers. The original Is a German dispatch which, being translated Into English, sounds like an Innocent business transaction viz: "National Germanla Insurance con tract certainly promised. Executor Is evidently satisfied with proposition. Necessary steps have been taken. "HENRY NEUMAN." Not so Innocent and harmless as It looks, for what the message really means Is this: "Irish agree to proposition. The nec essary steps have been taken." Plots Involve Trouble In Canada. Canada was also the object of solici tous Interest on the part of Germany's representatives In America, as was startllngly proven In the plot to blow up the Welland canal. Another lesser but not unpromising enterprise against Canada was foregone by Von Igel be cause the volunteer plotter waa too old, "though he has the beat of good will" and also because of his known connec tion with the Gaelic-American and the Indian revolutionists. Such is the In dorsement upon the letter, signed only "K " who thus sets forth hla qualltlca tlons for fomenting disorders In Que bec: "As honorary president of the first Independence club started at Montreal about the time of the Boer war. and of which Hon. Honore Mercter. now minis ter of colonization In the government of the province of Quebec, was ono of the vice presidents and later president. I am well known among the members and Journalists In that organization , . . There is now In tho place of the Independence club a secret society based upon Its principles, aiming at the British empire. ... it memoes an the former members of the Independ ence club and mm high In Canadian po litical life. The adherents are for the mnHt nart French and Irish Canadians , . . I am in daily connection with one of the leading men in the separa tion movement, lion. J. nan Kcuy xuhn l a member of the legislative council of the province of Quebec and also a member of the government. Captain Boehm Leaves. Fnr all this. Captain Boehm'a author Ity Is thus Indicated over his own sig nature: The following memorandum was just given to me by an acquaintance return ing from Washington. The 'acquaint nncA' la n skillful Journalist who has good connections. I cannot vouch for his reliability, but I Know tnai ne naies tho present administration ana njrnis It. His Informant iy a former secretary of the Amercan embassy at Rome now In Waahltjgton." Captain uoetim nimsen wu iuu of tongue for the good or ms service, it would appear from a report of the German military inrormanun umeuu dated March 21. 191b. Captain Boehm uecioeu eo ieuvo reports received here were submitted to him to the effect that members of the press were Informed as to his personality and the purpose of hla being he-.e. Too great conHdence In the members of the Amerloan Trutn society . . . ably the cause of his becoming quickly known here." , . So the notorious American Truth soci ety, which so strenuously uemeu us German associations, imum rectly linked up with Oermany's secret representatives. This society Is still ex tant and Jeremiah A. O'Leary, Its mov ing spirit. Is now tho editor of Bull, re cently shut out of the malls for publish ing seditious matter. Enter Viereck: George Sylvester. Many Inventors, some of them obvious ly cranks, are represented either by cor respondence or notation as having plans Involving the use of sundry devices of destruction. One entry of the sort mer its special attention because of the no toriety of the Individual Involved. Here It ts, translated from tho German record of correspondence: "June 13. 1915. Sender. G. S. Viereck. Contents, Inquiry na to bombs;2 supply offer. Told to send further details." Possibly the further details are Indi cated In another ehtry of four months '""Sender, Viereck. Contents,, offer of picric acid." Picric acid Is a constituent of many v,ih ovnloRlves. Mr. Viereck Is some- thing of a high explosive hlmsolf, having been editor of the virulently pro-German weekly Fatherland of New York, now changed tn title (but not In purpose) to hvi.kI,'i Weekly." .Tout what Interest Dr. L. A. Dessar of 25 Broad street, New York city, had In rw,n.n serial warfare Is a matter for speculation, tn tha Von Igel archives appears l.tt.r from R. U Scovllle of Sewlckley, Pa and New York city urging the mer its 'of the 8emple aerogrenade. Doctor Dessar evidently forwarded the letter where he thought It would do the most good, vis., to Von igoi. The following curious entry appears Von Igel's records: "Pure War Expenses.' In Edward Emerson $1,000 Fie Plnv (Mr. Braun) 2.000 Fair Play (Mr. Braun) J.IM0 Marcus Braun J-" T Archibald ,W)0 dors. Gradually the purpose of the sug gested Inquiry changed from the de mand for vindication of gentlemen whose sacred honor had been assailed to n relentless upturning of the roots of the German bribery plnnt, to the end thst the country should know Just who got it nnd how much he got, and what he did for It. It did not seem to occur to any of the vociferous ones that the depart ment of Justice and the department of state, with facilities vastly more WORK OF GERMAN PLOTTERS In the fall of 1914, shortly after the outbreak of the -war, the German em. bascy established a publicity depart ment at 60 Wall street, under the di rection of Wolf von Igel. About two years later this office was raided and documentary proof obtained that Von Igel -was the chief epy and plotter of a vast system maintained In the United States under Ambassador von Bern. storff'a general direction. Paul Koenlg, pretending to conduct the secret service of the Hamburg- American Steamship company from a New York office, was discovered to be In reality one of the directors of the German spy system In the United States. He Is now Interned at Fort Oglethorpe. In Von Bernstorff ' code he was known as "XXX." In a report by Koenlg to hla boss, Captain von Papen of the German embassy, Koenlg describes an agent who has made bombs to resemble lumps of coal to be placed on board merchantmen sailing from New York, for the purpose of blowing them up while at sea. Dr. Max Nlven of Chicago Is shown as receiving $60 for the labor fund In connection with establishing a branch of German and Austro-Hungarlan la bor Information and relief bureau in Detroit. The German embacsy maintained confidential relatione with the Irish revolutionary movement, through John Devoy of New York (formerly of Chi- cago), editor of the Gaelio American. Through Devoy at least one check for $1,000 was sent to Sir Roger Casement. Daniel F. Cohalan, supreme court justice of New York, is shown In a Von Igel cipher message aa urging German support for the Irish revolution. George Sylvester Viereck, editor ol The Fatherland, a rabid pro-German weekly published In New York city, Is noted In the German records aa send ing inquiries as to bombs and picric acid. Viereck la still conducting hla paper, having changed ita name to Vie reek's Weekly since the. United States entered the war. James F. J. Archibald, the magazine writer, In whose possession the Brit ish government discovered official cor respondentce between Von Bernstorff and Berlin, Is shown In one of the pa pers seized to have acknowledged re ceipt of $5,000. Edwin Emerson, an other writer, got $1,000 from Von Igel Ray Beveridge; a California artist, and sister of Kuehne Beveridge, the sculptor, la shown to have received $3, 000 of German propaganda money. Concerning the Identity of the last entry there might be room for doubt but for a signed receipt from J. F. J. Arch Ibald acknowledging the sum of $5,000 from the German embassy for propa ganda work. What return Archibald ever made In service Is not clear, except that certain war correspondence for which he contracted with New York newspapers was so obviously prejudiced on the side of the central powers that they declined to accept It. Even with such liberal support "Fair Play" did not fill the bill, for In Janu ary, 1910. a letter was written by F. Schroeder, a German newspnper corre spondent In Toklo, to the German diplo matic representatives lamenting the lack of n Kenulnely Influential weekly In New York devoted to Teutonic Inter ests, and suffgestlnR that one Borsodl might be the right man to conduct such a publication. Viereck and Others. Frequent hints of George Sylvester Viereck s Journalistic activities appear, and there are a few notations of "Pear son: Subject. Presa." which may refer to Pearson's Magazine, of which the editor, Frank Harris, Is strongly pro German, or may indicate a secret agent named Pearson, who Is tho subjet of other entries. The lecture platform Is represented by Hay lieverldgo, the California artist, and slater of Kuehne Beveridge, the prominent sculptor. In one entry Privy Councillor Albeit acknowledges receipt of $3,000 from the embassy to finance Miss Poverldgo's lecture tour. German war pictures were also to be furnished, though the alleged scope of the lectures was to be comprised In topics allied to Ited Cross work. Other figures of more vague Import drift Into light here and there In the Von Igel papers or the bureau of In vestigation reports. Col. E. G. Wood ford, an old Hrltlsli hater, appears to have received Bundry sums of money for service unspeeilk'd. The following letters found In the Von Igel papers re fer to Colonel Woodford: New York, April 4, 1916. Ills Excellency, Mr. Von Igel, New York, N. Y.: According to a letter received hera today, the imperial embassy Is of the same opinion as myself that money should not ba paid to Woodford. Please act accordingly ana inrorm Woodford. If he should show up there again, that Herlln has received the let ter regarding the sum to be paid ana has besides again been asked by tele graph whether money should be paid. Until answer Is received from Berlin, nothtng more can be paid. (Signed) PRETZEMa Colonel Woodford appears, however, from the following letter to have re ceived the sums promised: New Ycrk, April 10, 1918. Please pay the remainder of two hun dred and fifty dollars to Woodford. Ho Is to receive $500 according to order (from Berlin). Please have the Inclosed receipt at tested. Signed P. R How far tho plot goes will probably never bo known. The spider, Von Igel, had scuttled away to his own refuge in Germany. His nest Is destroyed. But the strands of the web that he wove may stilt" stretch over the city or town which you who read this Inhabit Holland a Way Station. It has long been an open secret that Holland Is merely a wny station for shlnments of contraband Into Germany, Here la olllclal confirmation from tha Von Igel records, which would seem to Indicate a auspicious ana connaonuai rolntlnn between the "Holland commia slon" and the Oerman diplomatic offi cials accredited to this country, or pos sibly a belief by the Germans that they could not successfully get tne muni linn, tn their own country. The mes sage In code, with Interlinear transla tion, la entered as "A 249J" and headed "German Embassy, Washington, D. C, Anrit 6. 1918." It runs as follows: Teleirram from Berlin by secret roundabout way for Carl Heysen: Con mart sale Holland 300,000 chests (car trtiTires) and 200 tons powder. Please o-ot in touch with Holland commission Sender, war minister, foreign office, In representation. iiAiitWiW, effective nnd convenient" than a con gressional committee could command, had been for months engaged on Just this sort of nn Investigation and that tho tetter that raised all the commo tion was one of the first fruits of the quest. It was In figuring for something of this sort, that Senator King voiced his belief thai the tlmo Is rapidly ap proaching "wii?n we will hove to rec ognize a state of 'o.r with the Imperial kingdom of Austria and on Bulgaria and Turkey. ENSIGNS NAMED IN GERMAN PLOT Members of Aviation Corps Also Implicated. NAVAL AGENTS INVESTIGATE Thorough Inquiry Being Conducted On The Pacific Coast And Censor ship Is Tightened By The Naval Authorities. Sun FranclHCO. Navy Department ageaU have charge of further devel opments In the German Hpy plot la which two navul ensigns, five mem bers of the aviation corps and a re cruiting ofllcer are alleged to be im plicated In treiiHonable operations with Lieut. Ei-win Frederich Schneider, of tho German Navy; his companion, Theodore KuttliiKer, both In military prison here, and four Austrian urmy jltlcers held In Leredo, Texas. Naval olllclaln immediately threw the utniont secrecy about further op orations which are expected to result In arrests at any moment. Action of the Navy omciuls Is now centered In Southern California, it Is believed, where one of the Naval ensigns is ntutioned ut Sun Diego nnd one of. the aviation members is enlisted in the training camps there. TRENCH AND CAMP' OUT OCT. 8. Weekly Newspaper Will Bs Printed For Every Army Camp. Washington. "Trench and Camp," the weekly newspaper to be printed for every army camp through nation wide co-operation of newspaper pub lishers, will make Its first appearance Monday, October 8. It was to have appeared a week earlier, but arrange ment of details In the Far West made a postponement necessary. The paper will be published under the auspices of the National War Work Council of the Young Men's Christian Associa tion. All the arrangements between publishers and the many details of the undertaking have been directed by John Stewart Bryan, publisher of the Richmond News-Leader, who will have general management of the paper. LIBERTY BONDS AT 100.24. Activity and Rise Attribued To An nouncement of New Issue. New York. Trading in Liberty 3V4 per cent. Government bonds at flota tions running from 100.04 to the new premium of 100.24 was the striking feature of an otherwise unsettled Piovement on the Stock Exchange Friday. Sales of the Liberty Issue ag gregated nbout $5,350,000, or almost 00 per cent, of the day's total opera tions in the open bond market. Among dealers tho greater activity and the enhancement were attributed to the overnight announcement of the Treasury Department's intention to create a new bond for nn unlimited amount at 4 per cont. Interest. MORE AMERICAN CASUALTIES Private Killed In Accident In Line Of Duty; Lieutenant Wounded Washington. The slight wounding of First Lieutenant Howard F. Keat- n?, of Fhiladelphia, Medical Corps, din ing an air raid on the night of Sep tember 24, was reported to the War Department by General Pershing. The death of Private James Tracy, of Phil p.delphia, as a result of "an accident in t'.io line of duty," also was reported Another cablegram announced the death on September 24 from natural causes of Seigeant Pit Johnson, of St. Paul. SLACKER TAINT TOO MUCH. Man Who Fought Draft Will Enlist When Jail Term Ends. Milwaukee. Nicholas Voss, who of fered armed resistance near Mani towoc recently when approached for arrest for failure to register, will re join the navy of his own volition, at the expiration of a Jail sentence of 60 days Imposed by Federal District Judge Gelgor. "I would rather be called any name other than a 'slacker.'" EX-CONCRESSMAN A SUICIDE. J. A. Nichols Wrote "Old, Poor and Blind; What's The Use Of Living." naleiffh, N. C John A. Nichols, 84, United States Commlslsoner here and nt one time a member of Congress, committed suicide In the Postofflce Building by ahooting himself. A note in his office read: "Old, poor and blind; what's the use of living." . 23 KILLED IN COLLISON. Passenger On St Louis and Frisco Runs Into Empty Troop Train. Kellyvllle, Okla. Bodies of 16 ne groes and seven white men have been taken from the wreckage of the St. Louis and San Francisco train No. 7, which collided head-on with an empty troop train, one mile southwest of here. It is believed that several more bodies still are in the debris. SHEFFIELD, ALA., FAVORED. Recommended As Site For U. S. Nitrate and Powder Plant Waahlngton. Army engineers have recommended Sheffield, Ala., near Muscle Shoals, for the site of the ex perimental nitrate, plant nnd Govern ment powder plant. Three million dollars are to be spent on the former nnd $1,000,000 on the latter. The rec ommendation has been laid before Secretary Baker, of the War Depart ment, who will lay it before the Prei.l-lent. buys a mo, Stni tot normalioa Kemerer,Matthes&Co j ' JfemJert PhltidelDhlt SlorV r.,t CnaMlidated Steck Exch, N.y, Buouvu sum ex., i oronto 50 Broad Si New York Ptivtlt Wlrti To At: O'feu bii iiWi Aim $5 PER DAY EASILY mJ ayq ouiurv in piinntt.a fur f- ' I oalUt or lnTitinf nt nt-w,ar? i:V. . 1 TUK B,1 AIL tltS CO., TULfclwH tn It i TT II v . H LXCelienl vailcT Dairv harm '"H ImK.K- Mltw ma...... L . "'"'rw oouat itckoew; can divide, uu HmuJ ii PATENTS Siirg WOMEN Acqnslnt! lihitr.m,kM1 J t- Fur h.mit . i n. lui.u.i.J t .. Sound Logic. nr.. ........ ....i.i .. ,1111111111,1, mini a ii vi -ji-ar-ii! I the other day, "aren't Uhto any senses "cept hi'in ini;. s.viu f tnstlng nnd simi'IIIul-V" "No, my child," mi,w,.tv, n,, er. "It Is usually cm -ii.-n.l tha five arc enough." 1,11'. .11 M ....!.! ,1. . , .., ii-ii, niiin un' nine one r nlr of deep convli-tiun, "I k'i ing would oe cmii'ii :i wasn't so much ii'm-ftm- nliout Pearson's. MOTHER! Hnve you ever iivd MOTHERS SALVE for Colds, Cousin, Cro-J Pneumonia, Asthma, and H-s tarrh? If you haven't get It i: It will cure you. Adv. Good for Him. One Indianapolis unman In ij of the war ond wlmt it mnw I tain folk. She wrote to llA Smith, adjutant general, urglii "If the draft board culls for m.J men, I wish you would sih call for (licr lm Then the letter g:tv his aJJri his registration ihiiiiImt. 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