lTv"FHPPXr W"- '??'' w-y- r-wip '-wr-yi EVENItfa FUBLJO LEmERPHILADELlHIA, SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1018 iV SPIES' ATTEMPT TO CRIPPLE U. S. FLEET IN NEW YORK HARBOR UPSET BY "THE EAGLE'S EYE'1 Failing in Their Plot to Blow Up the Hotel Ansonia, While 800 Navigating Officers Were Attending the Naval Ball, the Teuton Hirelings Under Von Bern- :; storffs Direction Pushed Alternative Plan In a Little Shack at a Deserted Spot of Staten Island Mechanics Worked Day and Night to Complete a Wireless-Controlled Torpedo Destined to Sink the U. S. S. Pennsylvania Too Much (eRoad House" Givei Woman Secret Service Agent Op portunity to Snatch Memorandum Book V i ge fh tf 94, tot fcfr if' s tdmt tv EPISODE I1I-THE PLOT AGAINST THE ATLANTIC KLEET In thin, the third cvlsodc of "The 5Wto. loole'j Eve'.' millam J. Flynn makes If ubMc for the first time the details of ' ffcc German attempt to sink Admiral tMavo'a flagship, the U. B. S. Vcnnsyl- tT?anla in the "Xarrows" ol .Veto York harbor, thus lot Ulna up the entire Atlantic Fleet. How nearly this Breach of American neutrality suc ceeded Is told by Courtney Hylcy Cooper, In story fori , on the facts given him by Mr. Flunn. The two pre ceding episodes exposed the machina tions of Ton Bemstorff in connection 'etth the Lusltania sinking and the attempt to blow up the Hotel Ansonia while the 800 navigating oglcers of the Atlantic Fleet were attending the Naval -Ball. fftTTHAT'S happening on tlie dlcto W Graph?" Harrison Grant asked the question as be entered the room adjacent to the Uohenzoltern Club aud looked anxiously toward Dick Stewart, the operative, who wit with the receiver to his ear. Stewart shook his head. "Same old thine, arguments, conversa tion. Jokes, drinks, toasts to the Kaiser. that's all I can catch. It's, Just the tame as It's been ever since the night of the naval ball. You don't suppose that they could have gotten a tip that we're In here, do you7" Harrison Grant shook his head. "Hardly," was his answer. "c would have known something about it. They'd rip that dictograph out so quick ly they'd drag you through the nolo after It No they're simply doing their talking In other places, that Is all. The investigator looked at his watch. "Nearly midnight." he yawned. I. "You'd belter go home and get e sleep." the operative broke In. Cav anaugh and 1 will keep watch and let you know the minute anything happens. Don't you think that's a wise plan? Harrison Grant, with his ever-present nanny nature, Bmlled In tplto of the fatigue that hung heavily upon him. "i think you must know how much sleep I haven't had!" was his comment 'And to tell the truth I haven t had anv since the night of the naval ball. ""He turned to the door, giving his men their Anal instructions for the night. And m he made his way homeward, the telephone lh.es were crackling between New York and Washington. wh Ambas sador Bemstorff at one end and Karl Boy-Ed. naval attache, at the other ' Nearby sat Captain Franz von Papen vd Dr. Heinrlch Albert waiting for tho result of the conversation. At last liuy Ed turned from the tetephone. anxious nbout our plans for tomor row." he announced. "I told him not to worry." Well there isn t A Meaaage from Jlernatorff - anything to worry about. Is there? Von rapen hunched forward In his chair -Not If everything's all right at the shack." answered Boy-IM. -That s up to Von Lertz. I instructed hit to ex amine the torpedo and to be BUre that the men had everything In working shape. Then he was to report to us Walt Just a minute -" it was the somewhat plotting, methodical Doc tor Albert who had Interrupted. Let me understand this thing clearly: The torpedo is to be fired wlien the fleet Is going through the Narrows. Is that right? Then what happens?" "A great deal," laughed Karl Boy-Ld. The principal thing of which Is that GERMAN CENSORSHIP DOMINATED Cenllnoed from rase One whether the copy hus been censored or not. and make uure personally that the proofreaders and typesetters have keyed the censor'n orders. For If an verslght occurs. It is no excuse that it printer has been careless or a proof reader absent minded the censor "strafes" the paper, nnd Its Infuriated wrier holds tho editor alone rcsponsl We for the serious tlnancial loss in curred by three or four days' suppres sion. Tho editor dares not rely on nny of his subordinates nnd his last Anxious words when he leaves the 'IK-intlng- house and tho paper goes to iPrcps are: "I hope to heaven every thing Is censored!" Suppression the Chief Duly Issuing a. newspaper In Germany during the war has become a business nt battling with the censor and evad- Ms penalties. It Is no longer an r's chief worry to get news. The erntnent supplies him with that ugh woHTd agency ana tne press t-rence and the less news or nis trotting he attempts to publish In M paper the better chance he stands escaping suppression and the wrath nt Ms employers. ' It Is difficult to make people In AMwrica realize the extraordinary con ditions under which German news psjperti have been appearing since the feictnnlng of the war. And yet It Is BXdlful they should know, for most of tha news the world sets about Ger- ly comes through the medium or Ornnan press. This news, having ! the German censor, Is nrces warped. Knowledge of the Ger- MUsut censor's methods Is needed In to gauge Its worth and prob- y. Tou must be able to tell In f a German paper, or a dls copied from a German naner. tho censor Is trying to hide, or he wishes to mak eyou believe. many cases, what the German would have liked to have writ. Jf the censor had let him. If you vine mi wus, you nave none or Mr. certainly not all the truth, t least something approaching I rsth about what Is eolnir nn In r. Herman Censorship a (g JMee the censorship la not a. very r institution wrwnr newspaper anywhere, although every sensible n must see that military news of irt nature has to be kept out of Mwsppers It it Is not to reach and m t enemy Fress censorship ix asgiand ana France and in both s It Is an object of frequent in parliament and In the news- aww I wonder what these rf ap4 linden would ray smwc in a Benin Dp . ''Sn Mm By WILLIAM J. FLYNN Recently Retired Head of the United States Secret Service tho great Atlantic Fleet will be forced In remain In New York harbor nnd the 1,'nlted .States of America will be taught Just how foolish It would appeal In a war with a real country like Germany." Albert bobbed his head. "I simply wanted to be sure that I understood. Personally, I shall watch tho fleet salt with a great deal of In terest." "No doubt." Von Papen turned with n growling laugh "I will watch It stop with more Interest. Now Boy-Ed, where Is Von Lertz to report?" "At the Hohenzollern Club " "Then we'd better be strolling over. It's after midnight now. Good night, Albert." "Good night. Good luck for Imperial Germany !" Meanwhile. Dixie Mason was looking Into the eyes of Heinrlch von I.ertz as they hesitated In front of the Midnight Frolic "If von don't mind. I'd rather take n trip out in the country somewhere to the October Farm or something like that." Heinrlch von I.ertz rubbed a chin in thought. "I'll tell ou a better place." wns his announcement. "There's the Ten-Mile House. Quite racy, It'H true, hut very entertaining. What do you say?'1 Dixie Mason smiled mot engagingly. "Why should I woiry as long as I am sheltered by th protecting arm of Helrlr von I.ertz? Bcshdes " ltond 9 Ilnue Trip and she allowed a bit of unsophlstlcatlon to creep into her voice. "I'm afraid my education In toad houses has been too much neglected. It's It's all right for me to go. Isn't it?" "Oh. of course," Heinrlch von Lertz drew himself up pompously, "I'll look after you." A moment later. Dixie settled back In a corner of Heinrlch von Lertz's ma chine and smiled In the darkness She was to have her chance after all the chance to learn what had been on Heinrlch von I.ertz's mind all evening, why he had been so preoccupied, fo nervous, so ngltated. Dixie could not see the picture In the camera of Hein rlch von Lertz's brain, she could not sec mirrored there A rambling shack on Staten Island near Fort Wadsworth. The figures of men as they hurried about the tool strewn room, one of them working on an Intricate wireless controller, the other polishing and fitting the last necessities of a great, shining torpedo, which rested in place to tie swung to a manhole con necting with a tunnel below, which In turn ran to a wharf facing almost the Narrows of New York harbor. No, Dixie could not see all she cou'd know was that something wns on Heinrlch von Lertz's mind, that he acted tonight like he had acted the nlgnt of the naval ball and that she was sure that before morning she would have some clue some means of knowing what wns engaging his attention. And whtlo they rode to the Ten-Mile House, tho rendezvous of fast society, the sport ing clement and habitues of the lavender life, two members of the Criminology Club suddenly straightened and llstentd harder than ever at the dictograph connecting them with the Hohenzollern Club. Dick Stewart turned. "It sounds llko Doy-Kd nnd Von rapen," he announced. "But they're not talking about unythlng In particular. They've settled down to a game of cards and they're acting like they're waiting for some one. Maybe we'll git a tip on who It Is." tocratlc sway of the Prussian censor ! There la the same difference between him and the censors In Paris and Lon don as there Is between a brutal Prus sian "Fcldwebel" nnd an an F.ngllsh or French drill sergeant. The reimornhlp In Germany rrprexrnlH the supreme tri umph of iiitlltnrUm oier public iiplnlnn and the complete supprenhlon of every ventlse of the freedom of the pre; in tho F.ntente countries It Is n restraint unwillingly and hesitatingly put on dem ocratic liberties that endanger the suc cessful conduct of the war. In t.ng land, and also In France since M. Clem enceau'a advent to power, the censor' activity Is strictly limited to the super vision and suppression of military newn which must remain hidden from the enemy. But in Germany the censor not only does this, but Is an lnntrument uned by the tloternmrnt to exert polltlral preminre l keep down oppoHltlon and Ntrrnstlien the Kabier's ahoolute power. He Is a p llceman appointed to watcb the press and arrest political malcon tents. And you may bo sure he does it as brutally nnd officiously as any Berlin "Schutzmann" who hears a word whispered against tho Kaiser In the streets of the capital. Military Men in Safe routs There ure three chief censors In Ber lin whose tyranny the newspapers are forced to endure. First, and most Im portant of all, there Is the censor at the. Berlin "Oberkommando," which Is at the same time the headquarters of General von Kessel, the military governor of Berlin and the Brandenburg district. He occupies a palatial residence In the Vic toria Strasse, near the Tlergarten, and a continual stream of messengers on bi cycles from thei various papers Is pass ing at all hours of the day and nlgnt through the entrance. In front of which an armed sentry struts up and down. To the Oberkommando censors must be submitted all articles and news of a military nature, or concerning Internal political problems and occurrences, and also economic conditions. The censors are all officers, many of them young HcntmanU, without exception decorated with the Iron cross, bot very well astli fled to find themselves safely settled at Berlin, 'far away from the dangers and discomforts of tho trenches. Needless to say, these young heroes treat the newspaper editors like recruits like Clerman recruits. All foreign news and articles dealing with diplomatic ques. tlons are sent by the papers to the For eign Office, in the Wllhelm Strasse, to be censored. The chief censors at the Foreign Of fice are titled diplomats. Many of the Innumerable Oerman consuls, whom the war deprived of their positions tn for eign countries, have likewise found a place of refuge here and act as subor dinate censors. While the military cen sors at ths Oberkommando remain haughtily invisible and the members of Um fwess only rftrtly oWl U privilege Four hours later the tip had come. "Boy-Ed and Von I'apen are In there waiting for Von Lertz," announced Stewart a Grant, somewhat sleepy- everf liiirrlml Int.. Iloy-IM nn'd Von l'upen Nervous the room, following a hasty summons. "They vo been In there e er since h nine aticr miunight, playing cards and drink.ng. Then about an hour ago they began to get nervous. After that, they began to watch the cloc!: and to talk about Von IhtIz. I didn't think there was any necessity for waking you up. Then one of them said something about the fleet, and I got nervous ," "Tho fleet?" Grant stnrcd. Dick Stewart nodded his hrnd. "That's all I could catch. Seems Von I.ertz Is attending to something about the fleet but neither one of them has mentioned what It Is. Walt a min ute." The operative leaned forward to the dictaphone again. "They're i-endlng a man to see why Von Lertz hasn't reported." Grant went quickly forward. He took the receiver from Stewart's head and becknmd to Cnvanaugh. "Take Stewart's place," he ordered. "Stewart, you cover that man. Sea where ho goes. Keport to me at the club." A quick movement and Stewart was pone. Five minutes later Harrison Grant, lingering In the doorway of the building adjacent to the Hohenzollern Club, saw the dim figures of two men walking fnr down the street In the gray light of dawn, one of them was tho man who had been sent forth by Von I'apen nnd Hoy-lid. The other was Dirk Stewart, member of the Criminology Club, beginning the chase that was to end where? Harrison Grant wished that he could know-! Nor did Grant know that an ally was working In Ills behalf, an an. mated, smil ing little ally who stood in tho entrance to her apartment, saving coodby to Heinrlch on Lertz. That person was laughing somewhat thickly his glass had been filled many times during the night. Dixie Mason extended a hand, but the German plotter waved It aside. .nu you only shake hands with Von I.erti In Ills Cups me?" he asked. "Isn't that enough?" "Not If you could know how madly I love you, how I ndorc you, how you faslilnate ." "Fascinate, you mean, don't you?" "Yesh yes of course. What did I say?" "Oh. nothing oh, Mr. Von I.ertz, plense '." For Von Lertz had striven to take her In his arms and was pressing his llpj toward hers. As she half struggldi w h him the German smiled In apology and dropped his arms. "I Just wanted one teeny-weeny little kiss," he announced. "I thought well, I Just thought ." "I'm not In the habit of being kissed." answered Dixie Mason, pouting. Von Lertz straightened. "Goo' little girl !" he praised her. "Goo' little girl ! I am now more fash Inated than ever ! Good night !" "Good day." echoed Dixie Mason, glancing at the light of dawn without. Then as Heinrlch on Lertz strode forth, the turned quickly to one side. Hui nedly she opened a little memorandum look that she had extracted from the pnekrt of the German plotter while she. l.al snuggled with him to prev-iit the kiss thai he had sought to implint on her lips. Quickly she scanned the ).isf, finally to start forward, an involuntary of negotiating with them personally, the Berlin editors often go to the Foreign Office and try to get suppressed copy paK-sed by personal persuasion. You gen erally see two or three Journalists In the waiting room at tho Vbrelgn Office, duly Impressed by their refined, nrlstocratlc surroundings, the liveried attendants, looking like old family tetnlners, that glide noiselessly about the mnrble-floorel corridors, nnd the general air of dreamy mystery characteristic of this, historic center of German diplomatic Intrigue. The arlstrocrats in the Wllhelm Strasse are usually more affable and reasonable than the youthful martial heroes at the Oberkommando, but that Is only because they havo better manners they secretly despise the press quite as mu Von Tlrpllz l'rens Hurruu All the naval news goes to the Navy Departmen, where Admiral von Tlrpltz had already organized a press bureau for propaganda purposes som years before the war. The censors are naval officers, and their censorship Is exceptionally strict, even from n German viewpoint. Scarcely any trews about events ut sea gets Into the Herman papers except that officially Issued by the naval authorities themselves, who nre exceedingly nervous and make a great mystery of all their proceedings. Finally, there are still minor censors at the Colonial Office, who censor the news frpm what were once upon a time the German colonies, and at various other Government offices. This multiplicity of censors adds to the worries of the care-worn German news paper editor, for it rests with him to de cide to which, censor each particular article or Item of news must be submit ted. It also leads to curious and not un amusing differences of opinion between the various censors. All through the war, as everybody knows, the Foreign Office has been at variance with the military and naval authorities, The dlffercnrea were mot apparent during Xho Ions-drawn-out crlls between Ger many and tho United Metes. A per emptory order was Issued at this time to the effect that all articles eonrcrnlnr America niuat, under all clrrumntanrea, l first submitted to (lie censor.. But the order did not say which censor. Now the military and naval parties wanted Instant war with America, while the Foreign Office wished, for a, time at least, to prevent It. Consequently, the Pan-German press writers, who could net refrain from expressing their hate of America and President Wilson In vlo. lent language, knowing that the sof spoken diplomats and consuls at the Foreign Office would suppress their abuse, sent their Inflammatory articles to the lieutenants at the Oberkommando and the commanders st the Navy De partment, who gleefully passed them. The haters of America merely scattered a tew arguments of a military naturo to rjira33Ks'''i .Hs---r'--r';SK Wl rnw'yi.a m" ' . .-- .-.-!. .."'w- .- . - - - - r-i.Tr-rr1 Ti,"--it-i --r-rf- B iirtti'.-'"r - .""?WhJ t mm.... jyfttU ,4, . - ft,;mmoa THE I'. S. P. i.ry breal.ii. g from her lips. She jlarc-d hn.itlly down the street toward wntro Von Lertz's machine wns fading In the db-tnncc, then ran toward a taxi t'.ind nt the corner. Follow that machine that Jut Irft litre !" she ordered, as she hurried into the car. Then, taking out her Secret Service commission and passing It before the eyes of the chauffeur, she ad monished: "The safety of the Atlantic fl-t depends on us! Don't lose sight of th.it macVne for tin Instant ! Where The Safely of thr Flert it goes were go. Ing and the man who Is In it must not know we're following !" "Don't worry, lady," came the quiet answer of the chauffeur. "I'll keep him in sight." Dlxli. Mason leaned back In ihe ma chine again. Once more she brought forth the note book. Again she looked nt the line which h.ul humid Itself Into her brain ; a line that read : "F.xamlne tmpcilo before (left sails." A half hour later Von I.ertz's machine was on the ferry, missing to Staten Island, while Von Lertz himself dozed In the tonneau. little knowing that Just be hind him on the same ferry was another machine containing a person very, mucli awake, Dixie Mason, dt'terinlned to learn Just exactly where he was going and who he Intended to see there So much for the ally who was working for the said Harrison Grant. And In the rmantlme. tin- pi-rson upon whom he had rinlly counted was haling his dllllcultles. Far over on Staten Island, the spy whom Dirk Stewart had trailed from the Criminology Club had turned Into thick underbrush, circled, seen the man behind him, lain In wait, nnd thin, with one powerful blow, filled him. hurrying on toward the shack and workers on tho torpedo. Hut that delay, while It had placed Dick Stewart In a position where he could no longer follow the spy from the Hohenzollern Club, had savd Dlxlo Mason from an embarrnsltik position. For that delay had been Just long enough tor Dlxlo Mason to see Heinrlch von L- rtz enter the shack, to watch him leave again, then to allow the little dare devil of the Sicret Service to creep to the shack, ascend an old ladder which sne found leaning against the building, and peep through the old trap in the roof. And mere sne saw Two men were busily engaged up on the torpedo, wlilch they were making ready to mwer through the manhole Into the Two Men .Making n Torpedo sewer. One of them was talking: "Von Lertz looktd like he'd been out all night " "Ves. That's the way he Is most of the time. But that's the way with the ones higher up. Thy enn go out and play, while we do tho work. Hut when the Iron Crosses nro distributed, they get them, not us." A growl from the third. "Shut up. You're better off here than you would be In the trenches. This is tasy work for you. I get tired hear ing you reservists kicking on a little easy campaign work over In this coun try when you might be handling tho mlnnenwerfers over in Flanders. Hut let's stop this talking. The fleet will tall In a few hours now. We've got BY MILITARY AUTOCRACY MAKES through their editorials, and thus mndo them subject to military censorship. The Foreign Office protested against this trick nnd threatened to refuse to censor' news of any kind In future If the articles about America were not submitted to it. nut the military and' naval censors nevertheless -continued to pass articles hostile to America without altering a word, taking evident pleasure In thus thwarting the diplomats In the Wllhelm Strasse. foe wlioe "weakness nnd "cowardice" they entertained a most hearty contempt. ThU battle be tween the eennoro account fnr the fact that Insulting nttacks ngHlnnt America never eenieil In the German pre, not even nt times when Chancellor von Beth-mnnn-Hollweg seemed most anxious to preserve friendlv relations between the two countries. The Imperial Chnncellor was powerless agilnst the young lieu tenants of the Berlin Oberkommando. Surely, there ran be no better Illustra tion of the omnipotence of lruimliiii mill tarUm. The German censor's methods arc, as I have said, Infinitely more rigorous than those In vogue In the Kntento countries. Here in Switzerland I not only study the German press carefully every day, but I also make a point of glancing through most of the French and Kngllsh papers, nnd I am constantly finding In them articles and dlspatrhes that the Oerman censor would have In stantly suppressed nnd that It would have been high treason for a Oerman paper to publish. Virtually everything the Berlin papers print Is censored. Ar ticles written by members of the Itrlrha tug on political or ernnarr.lr subjerta are rut and altered by Ihe Oberkommando nfllcrra aa ruthlraaly na an editor cut the copy of hl jnunseat cub reporter. Kven local and police news Is regarded by the Prusslanensor as bearing on the war nnd must be submitted to him first for approval ' No Criticism of Military If the censor finds anything reflecting discredit on nn officer or even a non commissioned officer in the police news, he 'at onco strikes It out. To maintain the prestige of mllltaKsm Is his greatest care, flulrldra, which are frlshtfu'ly frc. qucnt through Germany since the war, he studies with especial attention, nnd If they are caused, an they usually are, by the death of relatives or friends at the front, cr by the effects of slow etarva. tton, he forbids the papcra to report them, I. Ten the dally Hat of persona whom the Kaiser has decorated with the Iron cross Is censored. Kdltor'a J.urklea TTrror I remember a case where a Berlin paper was suppressed for severaj days for not having compiled with this order. The editor In question ran his eye casu ally over the Kit of new Iron cross knights, and, Judging It to be quite harmless, sent It to the typesetting office r- g"".i IM- .Ati--Br-Mh-. gjs,Jin?('i inf.., .- Fi - -" , -f -- .. .. .. . .:. .- TE-s "" - 3-;2L. ' &3Z2Z&:i?!53S3i ;, . j-?- - . -sr jsmmwjx, .. A... - -w PENNSYLVANIA, OBJECT OF THE to have this torpedo ready to launch at tho flagship." That sentence was enough. D'xle hur ried from her position on the ladder, started down then winced as she struck the ground. One foot had stuck In a chuck hole, twisting the ankle se verely, nnd slowly nnd painfully she limped to her cur, where It wus con cealed In the shadow of n gr--at, dis mantled boiler. The driver hurried for ward to her aid, assisting her within. At the door of the tnxl, Dlxlo half turning with the pain of her ankle, failed to notice that her reticule slipped from her wrist and fell to the ground. Nor did the driver. He lnped to his place at the wheel and tumid expect antly. "Where to nov '."' he asked. "A telephone Just a.s quirk as you can make it!" Dixie answered. Her voice was faint from the pain of her sprained tinkle. "How about a doctor for that foot?" the driver was staring nt the expres sion of ngony on the girl's features. "Never mind that. Where's a tele phone." "In a roadhouse, down the lino about three miles." "Get to It mirry A moment more and the machine w a h Fcurrlng along the lonely road toward the madhouse and to Tlie Secret Seri lee llelet-llle ward the warning that Dixie sought to send the Secret Sen lee. Rut ns the machine roared Its way along thiough the early morning the spy from the Hohenzollern Club en tered the shuck on Staten Island, his eyes wide with excitement, his voice snapping as he sent the men scurrying faster than ever to their work. "There's danger. I Just knocked a Seciet Service man over In the woods. They're after us. Har that door nnd barrlcnde it. We've got to get this tor pedo Into place before they catch our trail. Kvery minute means danger." Slowly the torpedo swung at Its fas tenings. The spy from the Hohenzollern Club lifted the cover of the manhole. And as the spies In the employ of Im perial Germany started to lower the tor pedo Into the sewer Dixie Mason clung grimly to the telephone at the load iicuse waiting for the answering olce from the other end of tho wire. At last it came, the oice of Chief Flynn, who had Just entered the olllee fur tho day. His voice went keen and bright as the warning from Dixie came over the wire. Hastily he assembled the facts as she told him. Then: "A good night's wrrii. Go homo lo bed I'll handle everything." He lifted another phone and died thp Criminology Club. "Busy," reported Central. For nick Stewart was at that moment d"ta ling the story of tho no-nult upon him ard the reasons he had fa 1 d In his itie-;t. Hut Chief Flii'i was nlnadv working on another angle for the protection of the Atlantic fleet. A quick call to i no naroor ponce. A moment Inter and with a scurry ing rush the power launches of the New York polico All In FInnH HnniN department, their machine guns rei'y for instant nct'on, shot forth Into tho bay. Another ca'l and the chief saint tl a clear wire to the Crlm nology Club. A few crisp orders and Grant anil his men uncensored. In this list was mentioned the decoration of a German lied Cross nurse, anil It wns runner staiea mat she hail received Ills Iron eroaa from Ihe KnUer fnr heroic conduct et the front, where abe hud fcel7ed n fallen aoldler's rifle snd allot dnuii several fnea who had entered tho German trrni-lirs. . When the paper appeared there was tremendous excitement nnd onstcmntif.n nt the Oberkommando. And. Indeed. In this pnrtlculnr Instance thero seemed some cause for It. for the Germans, after seek ing to excuse the'r atrocities by accusing the Belgian nd French women of hav!ng committed nets of guerilla war fare against the German soldiers, now stood convicted by their own ndmlaalon of net only tolcratln. but revinrdlna; German women and Ited Crna iinrr at that! for taking part in the ftght'ng nt Ihe front. The paper was at once confiscated nnd the unfortunate editor almost lost his position. Alsace-Lorraine Is completely cut oft from the German public by the censor. The Government has several reasons for this. In the first place, the mere fact that a part of Alsace has been re conquered by the French and held by them against nil German nttacks wounds the pride of the general staff more deeply perhaps than ony other reverse the Ger man arms have suffered since the battle of the Marne. The military authorities are extremely arnattlro nbout thla French occupation of Alaece, which la calculated tn barm their proline with Germany, and they used to mention this part of their battlefront as little as possible even In their official war bulletins. All the news the Berlin paners get from private sources about the fighting In Al sace they are forced to send nil the way to Strasshurc. to be censored there by the commanding general, who Invariably prohibits Its publication, even If It Is favorable to the G'ermnns. The Govern ment doca not vvlali the German people to be reminded that the French art till In Alaace. On ihe other hand, It wishes the Germans to believe that the Alsatians nre loyal and enthusiastic sub jects of the Kaiser and dread nothing so much as to be separated from dear old Germany: Therefore, the censor for bids the newspapers to tell their readers anything ahout the nrrest and imprison ment of Alsatians for expressing senti ments hostile to the Oerman Govern ment or about the confiscation of Alsa tian property nnd other drnconlan meas. ures taken by the Prussian governors to terrorize the ynhappy inhabitants of Alsace-Lorraine, who have remained true to the political faith of their fore, fathers. The martyrdom of these con quered French provinces Is hidden from the world by the Prussian censor. Kven correspondents for the Entente press In Switzerland are sometimes In clined to believe that the reports the German papers publish about the de bates In the itelchstag are not censored. - r5'ZTaK: .J" .- fS . -o.'. ... fc-A -&&rML HUN TOHPEDO were hurrlng by mot r to Staten Island to pick up Stewart on the way and rush to the shack that had housed the tor pedo. Hut would they reach there In time? Grrant would have given much to know. tint In the bay, here, there, every, where, the boats of the harbor police were scattering up townrd the great monstrous forms rf the battleships, where, (lags fluttering, the preparations were being made for the start of the President's review, searching under wharves, around lighters hurrying to the protection of the Mnyflowcr. whence the l'lesldent would review the fleet honeycombing the harbor In their senrch for suspicious characters, seeking every where for the torptuo that was planned to send n flagship to Its doom, block the great Atlantic fleet in New York harbor nnd cripple the defense of the greatest nation In the world. Hut so far the torped was safe from their search. In the dark confines of the sewer It had been lowered and shunted lo Its mouth, where it lay concealed from view under the piling of an old dock. Hack In the shack .Schmidt, the electrician, labored furiously on the Inst connection that would make the torpedo available for Its deadly use tho wire less controller. Hurriedly he made the finishing touch es, while down nt the mouth of tho sewer the plotters watched the gath Watching From a Sewer ering boats across the way, the waving flags and bright hued decorations that shone nnd shim, mcred with the bright sunlight of of mornlnit. From far in the distance came the screaming of sirens and the hoarser-throated sound of hundreds of tugboats, ferries and river craft. The review had staited. Aboard the May flower tho President of the t'nlted States was to see the pride of tho navy as It steamed forth to the open sea nnd . "If Schmidt only gets here with that controller," seethed the spy from the Hohenzollern Club, as he watched tho fleet In the distance through his binocu lars "If he only gets here!" "How long will It take to attach It?" Anothir plotter was staring toward tho distance. "Ten seconds We've got plenty of time In that wnj If he only gets here with It!" A sound from the tunnel. It was Schmidt, lugging the controller forward The spy from the Hohenzjllern Club turned with a quick rrder. "You get back there and guard tha shack," he ordered the third plotter. "We'll attend to things down here." The Gcman retreated Into the sewer? Schmidt began the placing of the wire less controller In Its position. Tne spy from the HohenzolVrn Club looked again through his binoculars. "We'll launch tho torpedo Just ns the flagship rounds the point there. Under stand?" "Perfectly!" Schmidt was testing his connections. They looked at each other then and laughed. America was nt their rrercy, they Ciought! For they did not know that as they gloated over the coming fate of the flagship, Harrison Grant and his men were forcing the way through the doorway of the shack above them ! Hut only emptiness greeted the mem oes of the Criminology Club as tho door They nre mistaken. In France and bng land the newspapers arc free to publish stenographic accounts of parliamentary debatew without Interference by the cen sor. Not so In Germany. Orders nre given out In the Helchstng Itself by the Wolff Bureau to the shorthand report ers Instructing them to strike out cer tain passages from some member's speech or to suppress violent Incidents that may have occurred during the de .bnte. .When l.lrbknccht una still n free miin and rouhl Interrupt Ihe Chancellor nt will with hla strident, nccuaotory voire, the Itelehatag censor vvaa kept particularly busy. One evening all the Berlin papers were "held up" In the press for half an hour by order of the Oberkommando because I.lebknrcht had made sensational reve lations In the Uelchstng showing that the Government had grossly exaggcr nted the results of the laat war loan. Ills treasonable statements had to be cut out of that day'H parliamentary re port at the last moment. Only after the war will the world know all the details of Llehknecht'M plucky opposition against the Kaiser's Government. KuUrr Veiled In Secrecy A thick veil of mystery. Is thrown by tho German censor over the Kaiser's movements. When this pathological monarch, who has certainly acted like n fugitive In his own country ever since the outbreak of the war, arrives In hla capital the Wolff Bureau, voicing the Oberkommando's commands, Issues to the Berlin papers ii statement llko this: "The newapaprra are hereby cautioned not to mention the preariicr of hla Maj esty the Kmperor In Berlin. Severe mraaurra will be taken ngalnat any paper that dlaobrya thla order." And they don t disobey, you may be sure, for where the Kaiser Is concerned the Prussian censor, never a very pleas ant person to deal with, waxes abso lutely Inexorable. The Inhabtlana or llerlln are never allowed to know when their beloved ruler la dwelling In tlirlr mldat, The Imperial standard files from his city palace when he is far away, staying with some agrarian magnate In Silesia or Posen, and when he Is really within It Is hauled down and the flag staff remains bare. It Is an undoubted fact that the Kaiser, In aplte of hla "vie torlea" and hi belief that ho eojoya special Divine protection, la haunted by ronatant fcara of aaaaaslnatlon, nnd all these elaborate precautions are taken In order to guard him against his devoted subjects. During all my stay In Berlin I never met a single German who had set eyes on the Kaiser since the begin ning of the war, with the exception of high-placed officials and officers. Public Ignorant of Censorship Perhaps the most extraordinary thing about the German press censorship Is that the pnbllo In Germany la almoat 'en tirely Ignorant of the fact that such fin ' ' ' -. ', While She Was 'Tip Members ogy Club Hear Order to "Go Ahead" cashed rpen Harrison Grant glanced about him quickly. "They're gone they're already In ths S"'er!" he exclaimed despondently. "We ha'e got Just one chnnce to head off tl.al torpedo when It starts ! You men hurry to Uuffan's landing and get the rc-ervo launch there. I'll investigate he-e ' "All tlBht'" then Rtewnit turned. "Here's something I picked up Just out side. Should have given It to you be frre but my brain's working n llttlo slow since that blow on tho head." lie p-jssed a tetlculo to Harrison Giant, who stuffed It In his pocket. Tho men departed Ornnt looked hastily nbout 'be shack, then cered to a corner nt a sound from below. Some one wns coming back Thero the sewer man hole moved a lit tle. Then a bit m o r e t lien It Sending the Torpedo raised, while the figure of n man started upward nnd through It. Grant crept forward. A quick leap, he seized the plotter by the throat, choking him nnd nt the same time dragging him hack on tho floor. A mo ment more and he had bound hint, drag ged him to a corner and almost thrown him there, then started down the man hole. Hut ns he groped blinking through the darkness, Schmidt and the spy from the Hohenzollern Club sighted the prow of the flagship as It rounded the point below them, swung the torpedo Into po sition and shunted It, seething. Into tho water ' A few steps forward and Grant saw what had been done Thero were the two men, both with their backs to him, one guiding the torpedo with th" wire less conti oiler, the other leaning for waid. pointing out Its course a.s It made Its way, slowly nt first, then faster, townrd the thundering flagship. Kvrrywhere was noise, the scream ing of whistles, the booming of guns, as the battleships flrerl their salutes before the Mnyflowcr. Hnrrlton Grant crept forward unnoticed. Ten feet then six then three, while the spies stared outward, unaware of the approach of the detectle. Harrison Grant gathered his full strength. A tre nundous kick and ho had sent on-1 of the plotters (prowling Into the water. A great lunge and he was at the throat of the ipy from the Hohenzollern Club, struggling to drat" him from his bold at the wireless controller, a strugglt that siemed destkud to fall. With almost supnrhuman strength the spy fought him off, still clinging to tho key of the controller, feinting, dodging, squlimlng In the grasp of the master detective, biting, kicking, butting but Mill holding to that key that was send ing the torpedo faster and faster through tho watir, driving It on and on toward the flagship of the great Atlantic Fltet, threatening It with destruction and the bottling of the entlro fleet in tie; waters of New York Harbor. Doggedly they fought. Again and again Grant's hands closed about tho throat of the spy, only to be thrown off. Then slowly, steadily. Grant began to bend the plotter In his grasp. Closer, closer Harrison Grant bent his head to ward the wrist of the linnd that held the key of the Struggling Willi u Spy wireless controller, motion ami his teeth Then a quid. doted unun the flesh, biting Into tho sinews and muscles, causing the spy to ivf Hum ins posi wiin a cry or nngulsh. But the light wns not oer. "Think you'e stopped us, eh?" The spy almost shouted the words. "Well, you haven't. That torpedo's got speed enodgh now it'll reach that ship all right. It'll .' But Grant had swung blm about now and wns forcing him to the edge of the sewer platform. Closer closer the end was Inevitable. Hut would It avail any thing? A glance out Into tho Narrows and Grant saw that the torpedo wus NEWSPAPER limtltutlon rxiata at all. To my mind, this Is the greatest triumph the Prussian censor has achieved. He tins succeeded In preventing tho news of his own ex istence from spreading among the peo ple. In France, nnd also In Austria, newspapers arc censored nfter tho page; have been composed, and blank spaces ara left In the paper where the censor's blue pencil has been at work on tho proofs. At various times during the wnr the Vienna papers have appeared with their entire front pages one glaring whlto blank. Hut these blank spaces re veal the censor's activities to the reader; moreover, they excite his cdrloslty nnd lead him to speculate on what this dan gerous article or dispatch may have been which the censor has suppressed. The Kaiser's government does not encourage day-dreams of this sort. Consequently, the German newspapers are censored be fore composition, and are strictly forbld dent to leave even the smallest blank space In their columns. The result Is that In spite of occasional debates In the Reichstag the vast majority of people In Germany nre quite Ignorant of the fact that the papers they read are censored from tho first line to the last, or at least they have no definite Idea of the absolute power and severity of the censer. A Stntc Attorney with whom I talked In Berlin on this subject was absolutely dumfounded to hear that all the news In the papers was certsored and de clared he had always assumed the cen sor's powers were limited to preventing the publication of secret military Intel ligence. llcbclllnn Dangerous From time to time some Oerman news, papers attempt to rebel against the tcensor's tyranny. Tho Pan-German press shows far greater courage In this respect than the Socialist papers. The Pan-German Journalists know they can rely on Influential friends In Govern ment and army circles to back them against the censor, whereas the Social lat wrilrra are outlaw with no one to nrotert them. An acquaintance of mine. an assistant editor on the staff of the Tthelnlsche Westfaellsche Zeltung. the Krupp-owned paper published at Kssen, was dragged trom ins urn one mem in the corlyflnya of tho war by two police, men. aniPtakrn off to nrlaon for having published news of a secret nature. He spent several days In a prison cell, hut was soon liberated inrougn me great, in fluence of his paper with the Govern ment, liven the largest Liberal organs like the Berliner Tageblatt and the Frankfurter Zeltung. have, on the con. trary, very little Influence In Govern ment circles. j Soon after the war broke out Captain Perslus. the naval critic of the Berliner Tageblatt. wrote some rather pessimistic articles about the Oerman navy and the slight chances of victory It would have In an encounter with the British fleet He was arrested and kept In prison mors Following Oni of the Criminol Von Bemstorff i heading straight on Its conrse now wnue rar in tne rear, tne reserve launci containing his men. wns striving valnl to summon the speed to overtake It O and on It was going n moment mor nnd It would crash Into the side of ths massive, thunderous battleship, n, mi ment more . All the strength that Harrison Gran possessed sped into the sinews of bl arm ana nncic. wiin n great wrenc he freed the grasp of the spy uuo mm. i nen. wim a tremendous lung ho literally raised the form of th struggling man. and threw blm hlg over his shoulders and Into the tn menuoub currents below A great lear iiarrison uran was (it the key o Iteierilng the Current mo wireless con ti oiler. Quickly h teversed It sendln the current crack hub out over tne .-yarrows, nut won the effect come In time? Would th electric current swerve the course o that torpedo soon enough to save th gnat battleship before It from destrut Hon? Gusplng nnd panting. Harriso i.rani waicneii ror tne result. Ills sol agonized, his heart lioiinrlinir with nnV Ing severity. A second and the torped had not nioied from Its course. An other Harrison Grant bent forwnr happily, nut there in the choppy water Of the Narrows, ho believer! be hnd K,.e tho torpedo swerve slightly yes. theri ii una moveu a iuu tureo reel from it course Now ten look ! The men on the n serve launch weie waving their arm nnd clambering to the top of the Inunc ns It sped along. The torpedo had move more In Its course now It seermd t be turning It uas turning' A grea Bind cry broke from the lips of Harriso Gront. The torpedo was making a fu semicircle in the water now on the roc of the leserve launch a I'rlnilnolog Club detective wns preparing to dive It 10 tno water tor me desperate puruos of kicking the wireless antennae froi the explosive monster and innkiinr useless, while on beyond, there wher the guns were booming, where the Har vere flying and the bands were playlni the great Atlantic fleet, safely, tri uniphniuly. wes sailing through th .Mil rows, oui to tne ireeuom or tne ope sea. Harrison Grant watched happily fo u mnmeiu, men turned to mai;e nis wa back through the tunnel nnd to tho In lenogatlon of the captured spy It wa then that he noticed that his brow wa covered with u isikl perspiration, ths his collar was wilted In spite of th almost coia uay mill ne was suakln and trembling fiom the excitement n the chase. He reached for his handkei chief, then hesitated nt the tnnrh of lb reticule in his pocket. Wonderlngly h orougni ii lo-tn nnd examined it "A woman's party chatelaine," h mused, "borne spy that's mixed up I this thing, I guess. Dropped It com In from the shark. I wonder if thero's an thing In It to give a clue to her ldei tlty." Ho nulled open tho bag. lie stared moment at the Initials of the cardcut which lay wr.hln, then opened i feverishly. The wondering expression e his eyes changed to fcrlmness His ilp resolied themselves into a straight lliv Slowly they icpeutcil the name on th card : "Miss Dixie Mason!" The battleships In the distance seeme to fade. The sound of the sirens, th booming guns, ii.ll drifted Into uotliliid ness. nuiiy. tnotio:onousiy. tne lips u Harrison i.rani irameti me worus. "Dixie Mason; Soshe was the one Dixie Mason a spy !" Xcxt Saturday's rmsodr - .Vo. i will he. the lomnxi of Franz voii Jlintilen to Amrrira. tcith S'lOMO.- OHO to spend on death and destrucm Hon. How one of his plots, to buni and destroy thousands of head oh livestock; to Injure the Allies, and tii prevent shipments across the Allan tie, was frustrated. TRAVESTY than a month, only bring rn'enaed nllrj having promised to be more optlipUti In future. The f-enaor's blue pencil aucccaafull kcepa Hie truth about the war froii reaching the reader of German news paper, but to tho newspaper man him self Its vicious slashes sometimes revei carefully hidden state secrets. By th alterations a censor makes In on nrtlcl or a dispatch, the sentences ho crosse out or the words ho adds here nn thero the editor can guess many thing he Is supposed not to know. Mackenaen Under Suaplcion Tho most extraordinary caso of th kind that canio to my Knowledge whllj I wns In Germany concerned Field Mar shal von Mackensen. At the outbrea of tho war Mackensen, who had ulvvuy been a great favorite with tho Kalse was In command of the German arm opposed tho Tluslans In Eastern PruH sla. He siitTereii reverse after revers- anil the Russians advanced steadll Into Germany. Soon rumors began t circulate In Berlin that Mackensen wn a traitor: that -his wife was F.ngllsfl and that he had been bribed by the El tente to betray Germany. Of cours tho Berlin papers paid no attention t these Improbable stories. One pape which had been publishing a series f biographical articles In praise of thl various German nrmy commanders, ah unhestltatlngly sent n story telllnl about Mackensen's brilliant mllltat career to the censor nt tho Oberkon mando. To the utter bewilderment he entire office, It came back stampe In familiar and forbidding red: "' passed for publication!" All the othi military biographies had been passe by the censor without question, There wan but one conclusion to I drawn from the censor's sensation: veto, namely, that Mackensen was reall a traitor and that the rumors about hb were true. As a matter of fact, the were taise, out tne necretary for wa i.enerai von FaiKennayn. had lilmse believed them nnd Instructed the mil tnry censor accordingly to keep Markrn aril's name nut of Ihe pupcrat Mackoi sen and Falkenhayn were rivals In tl Kaiser's good graces, which probnbl accounts for the War Minister's wlllln credulity. Long nfter this many Ge mans firmly believed that Flolif Mnrshu von Mackenr.cn had bctrayid the Oei man ouse In East Prussia, and It ws only after his Itumnnlan campaign ths ho once more becfame a popular leadt In Germany. Germati Long-Ringe Gun Hit Paris. Mav 4 -A succossful -fdiot hoJ j hit a long German gun that has bee j bombarding Paris, It WV8 officially uJ IVUUV.U VVUtty, . 'f sot - " ' M -&$ ,j$ .: .'; -JV " ?
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