Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-11-15

Providence Nov. 1.-THE Provi-
dence journal says this morning:
In vigorous reply to the denials
Of the American embassy and several
Austro-Hungarian consuls that they
had been fomentng trouble in NUM-
tions plants and constantly intriguing
with spies and secret agents. DR.. Jo-
seph Goricar made the following state
ment last night:
Did anybody expect that these men
we're going to acknowledge the fact?
| can simply give my word of honor
that what I have said is the truth and
that the facts are going to be proved
to the satisfaction of the American
people.
II will state further that no act Of
violence. whether it be a fire in mu-
niticns factory, the explosion of bomb
on board a ship or the establishment
Of a fraudulent passport office springs
from the demented mind of any single
individual. Every act is planned in
advance. men who can be trusted to
go through with such criminal perform
ances are selected in advance. and the
whole scheme is worked through the
system individuals are simply car
rying out orders that they get from
above.
My l. years experience in the for
rien service of Austria Hungary has
given me exact knowledge Of this spy
system which is directed by the Ger
man embassy through Captain Boy Ed
and Captain Won Papen, acting directly
with Consul-General Won Nuber in New
York. These three men have full and
complete knowledge OF every move
made by every German and Austrian
SPY IN til" United States. In spite Of
their assertions that they are limo
cent Of any wrong doing or Of any
knowledge of the burning of munitions
plants OF of the wrecking of ships. they
arc in immediate touch with every
transaction.
Card Index on Spies
Ever: central empire spy operating
in this country today IS officially listed
in the offices of these men. and their
records are kept in card index form.
There are should judge, from my
personal knowledge, about 5000 of these
men in the United States today, and
every one Of them will do exactly what
he is ordered to do, and consider him
self. as in fact he really is. soldier
under the direct instruction of his mil
itary superiors. No one OF these men
would dare act on his own responsible
ity in a foreign country before he had
secured the approval of the representa-
tive of his government in that country.
These men have to keep in touch with
the military and naval attaches or
either the German or Austrian embas-
~. or else with the consuls l have
named already in my previous state
ment. and from them they secure all
maps and charts, sailing lists OF steam
ers. and the precise locations Of fac
tories where ammunition is being man
ufactured
Call Americans Pigs"
They have to visit the official rep
resentatives Of their country in order
10 get the sums Of money they need TO
carry out their instructions. 1t is
standing order in all the German and
Austrian consulates that these spies
are never TO be given more than the
amount Of money necessary TO carry
them over the one specific job they
have on hand at any one time.
DO the american people tllinh tiidl
Captain Won Papens somewhat innoc-
uous statement about Americans in his
letter discovered on Archibald is an
isolated expression Of opinion? The
truth is that since the beginning OF
the war. in every German and Aus
trian consulate in this country and in
both embassies, Americans have been
dogs and pigs and beasts when
ever reference has been made to them.
The people Of this country do not I'M
derstand the contempt with which
these men view them, and their al