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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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j hit a long German gun that has bee
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