South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-11-12
COUNTRY INFESTED
BY TEUTON SPIES
Serious Charges Made Against
German and Austrian Off =
Gals in u. s.

PROVIDENCE. r. T., Nov. Ii
The Providence Journal Friday morn
ing said:
DIR. Joseph Goricar, who has been
a prominent official in the Austro-
Hungarian consular service for Is
years and who resigned on Dec. 20
last year. made statement Thurs
day TO the Providence Journal in
which he declares that the United
States is honeycombed with German
and Austrian spies working directly
from Count Won Bernstorff and Con-
sul-General Won Nuber and that every
Austro-H Hungarian consul in the cOun-
try Is the center OF hotbed OF prog
uganda for the destruction Of muni-
tons factories, for the creation Of
strikes among labor men working in
such factories and for every act Of
violence that is being submitted here
today having these objects in view.
DR.. GOricar also declares that
when he was consul in San Francisco
last year every effort was made by
personal conferences and through
written communications TO him from
commander Macmillan Burstyn,
naval attache OF the Austrian EN- bassy
at Washington. to have him secure
ana send TO the embassy plans Of all
the forttficatiOns and defenses of San
Francisco harbOr and along the en-
tire Pacific coast, and that he was in
structed especially to get for his gov
ernment every possible detail of the
operation, activities, machinery, con-
tents and strength Of the Bremerton
navy yard on Puget Sound
DR.. GOricar declined To attempt
to secure this information and was
transferred from San Francisco on
April 1 Of last year. TO Berlin He
was in Berlin five months when he
nrfia 20. Il
Knowing that this order would result
In either Imprisonment or death on
account of his pro-Slavic affiliations,
ne escaped from Berlin TO Rome,
from which city he wrote his resigna-
ton on Dec. 20 of last year.
DR.. GOrlcar's Statement.
DIR. Goricar's statement is as fol-
lows:
'Actuated by impulse Of loyalty to
former chiefs, l have, greatly against
nay wishes. kept silent up TO the
present time concerning many things
the American people ought to know.
j feel, however, that conditions have
become so Outrageous that they
should be exposed by men who are in
position to state the facts
The United States is not aware to
the danger which threatens her from
the activities of German and Austrian
agents who since the beginning of the
war have spent from S3O,OOO,OOO to
S40.O00,000 in this country i'm their
efforts to destroy life and property TO
get brother against brother. 10 create
political and social upheaval and TO
prevent By any kind of crime neces-
sary, the shipment of munitions of
war to the allies.
Propaganda Growing.
THESE men are more active today
than they have ever been for the sim
pie reason that the economic strain on
Germany has become greatly increas-
ed in the last few months. and that
she has reached the top limit Of her
capacity in production and resources.
From my knowledge of what is going
on / can state that the propaganda
Will greatly increase in the near fu-
ture and that in a few weeks this
country Will be brought face to face
with a grave situation, involving at
tacks on railroads, warehouses,
wharves and shipping.
&" i charge that the German a,mbas-
sadOr, knowing that the Austrian con-
sulates have far more influence among
their people here than the German
cOnsulates have among theirs has
worked through Ambassador Dumba
and COnsul-Gen. Won NubeT TO cause
every Austrian consulate in the United
States to become a center for intrigue
OF the most criminal character.
q" L charge that in this connection
the men on whom Ambassador Won
BernstOrff and COnsul-Gen. Won Nj
Der are depending to carry out their
form an inner circle and who hold