South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-11-12

regular conferences with Won Nuber,
at which they map out their propa-
ganda:
Here Is the Inner Circle.
Consul Ernest Ludwig of Cleve-
land.
"COnsul-Gen John Schwuegel of St.
Louis.
Baron LOthar Won Hauser of Pitts
burgh.
. "GeOrse Won Grivicic of PhiIadel-
phia.
Hugo SiIvestri of Chicago.
Edgar Proehnik of st. Paul.
'Consul-Gen. Won NUber has sur
rounded himself with a gang of men
who are regularly substituting foreign
language newspapers.
Many times since Ambassador
/ Dumba's departure Won Nuber has
been performing the same acts as
caused the United States to ask for
the formers dismissal. When j. +. J.
Archibald left this country many of
the letters he took with him and
about which he said he knew nothing
was prepared in his own presence in
Won Nuber's office and his bags taken
down to the steamer by two of Won
Nuber's clerks
Consul General Won Nuber at the
suggestion of Count Won Bernstorff,
within the past week, has ordered his
consuls all through the United States
TO close in on the campaign to get
workers out of munition factories. In
spite of their persistent efforts to get
these men out, many. thousands of
them still remain and they are now
trying to force them TO obey by work.
ing through secret societies and fra
ternal organizations with which the
workers are connected.
Reign of Terror Created.
a." The consul general has ordered
the officers of their organizations.
such as the Hrvatska Zajjednica, the
largest Croatian society in the coun-
try with a membership Of $4,000; the
YugO Slovanska Koteliska Jednota,
the reat Slovenian organization, and
othe. $ to pass new laws which will
sweep away all the benefits and saw
ings of years of these men if they
refuse to obey the final mandate and
come out of munition factories. Thou
sands of them have been dropped
from the rolls already and a reign of
terror has been created.
Austrian cOnsuls throughout the
United States are being used constant
ly. as they have always been used to
secure for Berlin and Vienna military
and naval secrets of this country. At
ter being transferred TO America L was
successfully consul in Pittsburgh in
sui at San Francisco from 1911 to
1914
Attempts were continually made
in each of these cities 10 have me Sc
cure military secrets of every charac-
ter. L persistently refused notifying
the consul general that such activities
would. if discovered. ruin my value to
my country so far as concerned any
commercial Investigations or the or
binary work of my consular office.
Ordered to Get Fort Plans.
The naval attache of the en-
bassy at washington, Commander
Maxmillian Burstyn, made several at
tempts to get me TO secure plans and
all possible data concerning the forti-
fication of San Francisco and along
the entire Pacific coast. He prac-
tically ordered me TO get all the de-
tails possible about the BTemertOn ma
w yard on Puget sound and impress
ed on me the great Importance Of Sc
curing such information.
1t is time the American people
understood the way in which these
TeutOnic embassies are using their
consular offices. They are acting as if
this country were their own and are
intimidating thousands of people who
have been taught that their cOnsuls
are the only protection they have in
TO working their will in every possible
direction