Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-11-19
NATIONWIDE SPY
RIOT UNCOVERED
Austro German Consuis Seek
United States Government
Secrets, Is Claim.
COUNTRY COVERED BY SPIES
Former Austrian Agent Makes Star
tiing Expose In Providence. r. L.
Declares $4,000, 900 Was Spent
Spreading Propaganda.

Providence, r. l., Nov. 13.-Startling
revelations of an alleged Austro-Ger.
man spy plot. covering every impor-
tant city in the United States, is pub
lished here by the Providence journal.
The story, as published by the Jour
nal, follows:
DR.. Joseph Goricar, who has been
prominent official in The Austro-Hun.
garian consular service for fifteen
years and who resigned on December
20 last year, made a statement today
to the Providence Journal in which he
declares that the United States is
honeycombed with German and Aus
trian spies working directly from
Count Bernstorff and Consul General
Won Nuber and that every Austro
hungarian consul in the country is
the center of hotbed of propaganda
for the destruction of munition fac
tories, for the creation of strikes
among labor men working in such
factories and for every act of violence
that is being committed here today
having these objects in view.
Sought Fort Plans.
Doctor 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 Bursty. naval
attache of the Austrian embassy at
WaShin Ctnr ~ =; -
send to the embassy plans of all the
Notifications 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
Doctor Goricar declined to attempt
to secure this information and was
| transferred from San Francisco on
April l of last year to Berlin He was
in Berlin five months. when he was
ordered to depart to Vienna. Know
ing that this order would result in
either Imprisonment or death on &C
! count of his pro-Slavic affiliations. he
escaped from Berlin to Rome, from
which city he wrote his resignation
on December 20 of last year.
Goricar's Statement.
/ Doctor Goricar's statement is az
4 follows:
"Actuated by an impulse of loyalt,
to former chiefs, | have, greatly
against my wishes, kept silence VI
to the present time concerning many
things the American people ought tt
know. ] feel, however. that condi
tions have become so outrageous tina
they should be exposed by men whit
are in position to state the facts
The United States is not awake Il
the danger which threatens her from
| the activities of German and Austrian
agents who since the beginning OF tn,
war have spent from s30.000,000 t,
$40,000,000 in this country in their Ell
forts to destroy life and property Il
get brother against brother, to Great
political and social upheaval and t,
prevent by any kind of crime neces
sary the shipment of munitions of wa
to the allies. From my knowledge O
what is going on | can state that tn
propaganda will greatly increase il
the near future, and that in fey
weeks this country will be brough
face to face with grave situation
involving attacks on railroads. ware
houses, wharves and shipping.
u charge that the German ambas
sador. knowing that the Austrian col
sulates have far more influence anon
their people here than the Germa
consulates have among theirs, ha
, worked through Ambassador Dumb
and Consul General Won Nuber t
! cause every Austrian consulate in tn
United States to become center fo
| intrigue of the most criminal chara,
: ter.
} Gives List of Names.
Il charge that in this connectio
the men on whom Ambassador 70
Bernstorf and Consul General vo
7 Nuber are depending to carry OF
7 their infamous work are the follow
2 ing, who form an inner circle an
4 who hold regular conferences wit
: Won Nuber, at which they map oil
t their propaganda:
: Consul Ernest Ludwig of Clev
: land.
: Consul General John Schwegel
; ST. Louis.
e Baron Lothar Won Hauser of Pitt
L burgh.
5 George Won Grivicio of Philads
phia.
Hugo Sivestri of Chicago.
Edgar Prochnik of St. Paul
y MANY times since Ambassad
l. Dumba's departure Won Nuber hi
d been performing the same acts
l. caused the United States to ask f
a the formers dismissal.
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