The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-15
Won PAPEN DOCUMENTS
INDICATE he FINANCED
MUNITION PLOTS HERE

The evidence taken from Capt. Won
Papen has furnished to the authori-
ties the most complete documentary
catalogue of the activities of German
agents in the United States. No de-
tails of names, dates or amounts are
missing.
I All these have been furnished to
copies and the originals also will be
furnished to Washington as soon as
they are finished.
Threats Made Against q. s.
In addition to the financial docu-
nnents the letters which are impound-
ed furnish "a volume in themselves
teening with insult of the American
President and containing even threats
of the iron determination on the part
of Germany to wreak vengeance upon
the United States.
Even the diplomatic DR.. Albert
suggests that Germany should take a
SITTER attitude toward the United
States, while DR.. Meyer terms Presi-
dent Wilson's neutrality fictitious"
and speaks of the quiet enjoyment
which the Austrian note aroused. It
is no exaggeratton to say that the
officers of the British Government
never made a more important haul
than when the Noordam was stopped
at FalTno uth on January 2.
(Dr. Heinrich F. Albert, who has
an office at As Broadway, New York,
in the Hamburg-American Steamship
Company's building, figured in revel-
ations last summer as an important
factor in the handling of German
money in America He received
many letters from the German En-
bassy at Washington and q number
of documents from Capt Won Papen
and Capt. Boy-Ed. For a, time he
was one of the chief German finan-
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imperial counsellor to the German
Embassy He accidentally lost a. dos
sier containing many papers, of i'm
portance to the German representa-
tives in America and after that his ac-
tfvities fell off to q great extent.)
Capt. Won Papen was equipped with
a safe conduct, but this only applied
to the safety OF his body. 1t did not
in any sense his carrying
documents in the enemy.
Capt. Won <Papen was evidently UNI
aware of this limitation, but there is
no doubt that Capt. Boy-Ed, who sail
ed week later, was apprised by wire
less, as when he was searched at the
same port where Archibald and Capt.
Won Papen yielded such a harvest the
result was barren. Whether the Of
ticiaIs expected Capt. Won Papen to
carry anything of Importance is no
known, but there is no doubt that
never in their mosh sanguine hopes
did they imagine that he was equip
ped with such voIuminous and incrim-
mating letters and documents.
Their extent can be imagined when
It is remembered that the dossier was
presented to the embassy only today
and that photographs of the originals
are not yet finished for presentation.
Capt. Won Papen carried quite open
W the stubs of his checkbooks, in
which like q rnethodicaI German ne
as are instanced in the cases of Kuep- |
ferle and Horn.
Won Papen's Bankbooks Found
These are not isolated cases, but
are examples Of the general run of I
he dossier. When further details
become known they will enable the
Cnited States to lay hands upon prac-
,ica1ly all the German agents who
nave been in the pay of Capt. Won
Papen since the outbreak OF the Ger
nan propaganda in the United States.
Capt. Won Papen also accommodated
ng1y carried along his bank books,
showing how his salary was in one
recount, while special financial tran I
actions were. carried on through an.
,ther account.
Illuminating also were letters
rom bankers informing him of pay
nents made into his various accounts
" the German Embassy and by Am
Won Bernstorff.
Some idea of the extent of his
may be obtained by the
act that in January. 1915, he had a
a1ance in one account OF $l,s5O. he
eceiyed from the embassy OF $6,4OO
nd bald out $4,000 His carefu1ness
etai1 is shown by the entry that he
aid sos for his farewell dinner.
wen his laundry bills are religiously
ntered.