Imperial Valley press., 1915-09-07


seized on the war correspondent
Archibald, by the English, from Aus
trian Ambassador Dumba in America
to his government outlining plans foI
putting American factories out OF
commission, has stirred this country
greatly and the question is being
asked:
Is the United States being used as
a gigantic chessbOard for the move
ments of spies-the pawns in great
war of intrigue being waged here by
the European nations now at each
others throats?
Is there a nationwide plot to de
stroy arms and munitions factories ii
this country that are handling huge
war orders for the Allies ?
Are the men directing this great
web of intrigue the underground dip
lomats Of the Teutonic alliance?
Alarmed, federal officials have or
dered sweeping secret service mves-
tgation.
And there is grounds for the grow
ing feeling of terror, for since the war
in Europe began there have been q
explosions which have destroyed OF
wrecked powder and munitions plants
in various parts of the country.
In all 81 lives have been snuffed
out III what is an apparently wonder
ly-organized plot to destroy mer
and factories in this country that are
contributing supplies to the Allies in
Europe.
The great plot, probably months
in the making, seems TO be put into
full operation now.
Here is one days activities of al
legged foreign spies-significant epi
sodes that occurred August 81:
1t was revealed in New York that
liner Minnehaha, set afire at sea by
a bomb July 8, had been loaded from
a lighter whose captain, a German
naval reservist, is now under arrest
on another charge.
Dynamite bomb exploded in front
of home of M. f. Coombs, in Depew
N. Y, whose plant, now building, will
he used to manufacture aeroplanes for
the Allies.
Hercules powder plant at Pinola,
Cal, partly wrecked by mysterious
explosion in factory. Two men killed
In Houston, Tex, H. w. Haysson,
German American, arrested as bomb
suspect, escaped from deputies.
Ignatius r. T. Lincoln, self-con~
fessed German spy, was arraigned in
court in Brooklyn, N. Y, on forgery
charge.
Hearing of Gustav Gopsch, German,
recently arrested by federal detectives
charged with making drawings of for
tifications in Virginia.
Secret service mems discovery OF
huge war map in. possession of Karl
Jiencke of Germany, student in den
tai school of University of Pennsyl
vania. Is detained in Philadelphia.
Train of dynamite was derailed and
blown up, killing 3 men, near San
Francisco.
Fifty handbills, calling on German
and Irish "patriots' to help end Euro
rean war by dynamiting powder fac
tories in this country, were seized by
POSTAL authorities in st. Louis.
Police of Council Bluffs. Ia, report
that Otto Warner, German, arrest
ed there on forgery charge, declared
he intended to raise fund of 100000
to aid the German cause.
In addition to these acts of vlo-
lence, United States secret service
men have unearthed other evidence
which indicates that the Teutons have
a desperate campaign under way IN
America to try to block the shipping
of supplies to the Allies.
Correspondence recently seized IN
the office of one of Germany's agents
in New York City reveals, it IS
charged, an "inside organization In
volving prominent Germans in this
country and German officials.
The startling charges were made
as a result of the discovery of this
correspondence that bribes had been
offered in Washington to gain the
sale of a huge supply of discarded
United States army rifles, and that
organized attempts had been made to
luy up huge supplies of war munitions
already contracted for by the Allies
The murder of the Rev. Edmund
Kayser in Gary, Ind.-who is believed
to have been a German spy-has re-
vealed the existence of alleged plots
to destroy powder plants in Indiana
These suspicious have BEEN Strength
ened by the discovery that the Ger
man minister of Gary had sent nu-