Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-02-20

IHc line anu lH6 tiihh 6ONNi hihNht
by which in event of war the officials
were to make arrangements to send
supplies from American ports to the
German raiders who made such spec
tacular captures.
The trial showed how more than
$4,000, 900 was spent in buying and
equipping vessels which sailed from
American ports with false clearance
papers bound for certain points in the
Atlantic and Pacific oceans where they
were to meet the German warships.
Reservists Had Standing Orders.
The passport frauds and the Ham
burg American trial furnished con-
elusive evidence to the American gov
eminent of the manner in which the
German general war staff. sitting by
wireless in New York. directed mea-
sures in behalf of the fatherland, but
in direct violation of American laws.
Every German reservist had his stand
ing orders. He was assigned to defin-
lite work pending the opportunity to
get back to Germany or he was re-
quired to leave his address and tele-
phone number with a certain man in
New York. He had his instructions
as to what he should be prepared to do
in certain contingencies.
In keeping with that general scheme
both reservist and naturalized Ameri-
cans who had served under the kaiser
and who had registered as ready to
fight for the fatherland, have been
stationed in every city and town of i'm
portance in the country, assigned to
tasks of gathering information and ia
work that would hamper the allies.
The German general staff, which
embodies more than 100 years of pre-
parations for wars in Prussia and
which has It's aids spreading through
out the world like so many tentacles
of huge octopus, foresaw quickly the
manner In which America would be
used as vast supply base by the
enemy. 1t knew of historic battle.
that had been lost through the fail
ure Of troops to arrive at an appoint
ed place on scheduled time or through
the lack OF foresight in having suppl,
trains come up promptly. Experts II
every phase of war; the general stat
planned not to depend on such things
| to occur by accident behind the enc.
mics lines, but TO see to it that re
endorsements. fresh equipment. arm.
and ammunition should not reach tn,
allies battle lines in Russia. Flanders
/ France or in Flanders, according t,
arrangements.
Rear Attack From America.
The German war staff, in othe
words, sought to and did make Amer
lea the ground on which a rear at
tack was made on the allies in tn
first year and a half of the war. Il
this attack the German warriors use,
all the cunning, finesse and skill tina
they could command among Germaj
soldiery and citizenship. To what ex
tent they succeeded may Lever be toll
in detail or how miserably the game
carried on at tremepdous expenditure
failed is a matter of guess work, bu
the general plan has been fairly wei
developed through the activity of tn
secret service under Chief Flynn an
the special agents of the department
of Justice
That babies shoes. instead or tough
hob nailed boots. reached the bases V
supplies in France; that automobile
; with no magnetos or sawed axle
reached the allies; that there wer
} miXups in various orders has bee
| fairly well established It has bee
! admitted that the failure of the Rus
r sian drive was caused by lack of arm
S and ammunition that the failure {
b. the allies at Gallipoli also was due I
e the same cause and that one drive b
the allies in the west had to be stoppe
8 because OF similar obstacles.
/ One of the great aims of the actil
( itN of the German agents in tn
=. country was to prevent the shipmei
0 of all sorts of war supplies to II
allies. If it was not possible to pr,
vent the export then their efforts w
to hamper the manufacture of the SUI
n plies and to retard shipment in eveI
h manner possible.
How vital such an undertaking mu
= be to Germanys success in the ba
n tlclield is suggested wildly by a Gu
v sorry glance at the weekly statemen
d showing the million dollars worth
shrapnel shells, rifles. ammunitio
II clothes, shoes. automobiles and coun
less other things going from New Yoi
alone to the countries warning for IL
&c allied cause. To cut the allies off fro
n this vast source of supplies unexpec
D eddy would be to deliver against the
r. a tremendous blow. more so in II
j. carly stages OF the war, Tor the ALI
d are now thoroughly organized m
II fairly well prepared TO turn oHt Il
W finished product themselves. St
they must depend on this country +
"A the raw materials.
a Meant Much to Germany.
20 II is clear then that success in {
n battle which the Germans waged he
?: meant more than any single campaiI
n that they could make in Europe
- might win ultimate victory, or
\ least help in the aim Germany has a
n nounced of continuing the struge
= indefinitely, in the hope of causing I
economic collanse of the nllins IL