The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-08-21
Conclusive Proof

State secrets.
Conclusive Proof
The Journal is able to say auth
oritatively that these investigations
are in progress, and that conclusive
proof of the conditions in the de-
yartments named has already been
secured
The government has obtained
overwhelming evidence that officials
OF tn German Embassy and many
individuals have been concerned in
''willful and persistent" violations
of our neutrality laws, and is about
ta take action which will result in
sensational disclosures and many
arrests"
"The government has been placed
in possession of bag of documents
which was found in the hands of
secret service agent of the German
government, and among these docu-
ments has been found positive proof
Of German official activities against
the peace of the United States. The
German Embassy discovered the loss
of this bag of documents only yester-
day, and Count Won Bernstorff will
not know until he reads this state
ment that this enaire mass of ma
terial is in the hands of the United
States government
Traced to Boy-Ed.
aided by these documents and
also by many material facts that
have already come into the hands
OF secret service officers and cabi-
net officials, the government is now
in position to prove, and the
Journal is able to state positively
the following facts:
THAT thepasspost frauds in New
York and elsewhere, the fraud in
connection with the Stegler case AMI
all the mass OF corruption that was
woven about the entire passport
PLOT, have been traced directly to
thepersonal activities of Capt. Karl
Boy-Ed, the naval attache of the
German Embassy.
THAT list of names of German
reservist officers in this country who
were to be returned to Europe on
forged passports is in the hands of
the United States government; that
this list was secured directly from
German government official. and
that the list was headed with the
name of Capt. Horn, the man who
attempted to blow up the Vance
boro bridge on the Canadian border
with dynamite
Signed Confession
THAT this same Capt. Horn has
made and signed a confession to the
government that what he did he was
ordered to do by his superior officer
connected with the German govern
ment in this country, and that the
government has facts in its possess
sion that the superior officer. whose
name is not mentioned in Horns
confession, is Capt. Won Papen, the
military attache to the German en-
bassy.
THAT Capt. Koenig. chief dis
bursting agent of the German en-
hassy in the payment of most of its
obligations that have been incurred
in fomenting labor strikes, buying
of newspapers, opening up of news
bureaus and all the other thousand
and one activities by which it has
attempted to change public senti-
ment in this country in favor of the
German cause.
Tried to Buy Arms Plant
That an American capitalist
who has summer home in the
Adirondacks where Count Won Bern
storff resides during most of the
summer months, and who is Won
Bernstorff's closest personal asso-
ciate, made an offer of S15,000,000
to the president of the Union Metal
lie Cartridge Company to purchase
that institution, and in making this
offer he was unquestionably the
agent of Count Won Bernstorff him.
self, whose plan was to secure pos
session of the property and close il
down.
THAT a fund of S1,30G,000 was
got together through German in
terests associated directly with the
German embassy, to finance nat
icnal strike of longshoremen on tbs
Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf Coasts
and on the Great Lakes; that thi'
fund was to be used for the pay
ment of s1O per week to ever,
striking longshoreman for aeriod O
three months, with the idea that il
that time the freight business, OF
which the shipment of arms ant
Ammunition demands would he 81