New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-01
GADSKI WOULD RUIN
PLANTS FOR KAISER
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we have not heard from papa for hours
Do we look Worried
I'VE are not worried" continued
madame. because we know the captain
is not GUILTY. lie would tell you him
self. quickly and emphatically enough,
II YOU asked him where his sympathies
lie. lie "a pro-German. So IS Lotta.
So am |.
But no matter what his sympa,hies,
nv husband is not a SPY. His father
was an officer in the Franco-Prussla an
war. His brother j. a major with the
Kaiser's army. The captain is fight
er. of a family of fighters. He would
give his right arm TO be in the trenches
that he might fight Germsny's enemies
with his left.
Diary Disproves Charge.
THAT is not the man who becomes a
SPY. Besides. the captain is too frank.
He cannot deceive. J. his wife, should
know. We three Lolita, the captain
and ! are very close together. W"
have no secrets from one another. 50
why. if the captain were plotting t.
blow up canals. should the other two
Of US not know il? Why should we
have been surprised when he was ar
rested Perhaps you cannot understand
how close we three have been. How
did express il the other day, Lolita y
However high her ethereal soprano
NAV run when she sings, Madame, II
seems, runs to lowly metaphors in
thought. For Lolita explained that the
diva. while motoring. had noticed an
advertising placard and had exclaimed:
That's a description OF our family
Three in One
And so it is" Madame went on.
Captain Tauscher would have told US
If he had done IT,; and since he dldn {
tell US, we know he didn't do u. Is IT
not simple
III. tn first place. they. say IT was
'on o. about August j, 1914 that the
captain entered into this so-celled con,
spiracy. looked IN his diary and
discovered he did not return from
Germany until August p.
"Tauscher Trusted by All
Resides. you must consider the cap
tain's high standing az Washington.
AS representative OF the krupp. Ehr-
hardt and Mauser plants, he has sold
TO the United States, and, with the
knowledge Of Washington, 10 the Car
ranzistas. lie was known and re-
speoted and trusted ! have read IN
the papers about the mysterious
stores Of munitions which my husband
has here and there about the country.
Ia il not natural that a dealer in NUM-
tions should have such stores? Also,
thew were not hidden from the United
States.
1T il true that the captain knew
Herr Won Papen. In fact he spent a
large part Of last summer with us at
Raw Shore, l.. /. Would a spy thus in
wife attention 20 himself?
THE captain and | have talked often
about spies. of course. recall him re-
marking that. great as IL his patriot
ism. he could never be one OF the,n.
concerning his feelings my husband
has always been frank. as ] am iranh.
When he first returned from Ger
many he made many enemies, Tor ne
would insist on speaking ms thoughts
when the Fatherland was attacked.
More lately he has had less TO say.
What's the USE he asks.
Would Gladly BE Spy.
Madame had looked at the clock many
,i,,,os as che talked. She had seen the
minute hand creeping slowly up the
left side Of the dial until u was close
10 the hour. Lolita had been clock
watching. too. IL must have beeen a
trick Of the lighting that had gradu-
nllv paled their cheeks through the
minute hands ascent.
4 question was asked. Madame
heard II the second time. She had been
listening for something else. perhaps:
How far would my own love Tor
Germany carry me? she repeated.
"CouId / hrinc myself to be spy"
"Well. / am q woman. cannot fight
:, Tho trenches. Maybe the ethics OF
war do not bind my sex so tightly.
But. ves-if that is being a spy !
could blow up munitions plants and be
Glad could 90 from one 70 another,
singing. for would know that with
each one sent into the sky the lives OF
30 many hundreds or thousands OF my
fellow-countrymen would be saved.
would only want 10 know that ! could
warn the workers IN time TO save them
selves. There. tell them that.
From the dark background came
voice:
Madame rose. her eyes still on the
clock: her ears. too, TOR WhifrihS
told Of bells about TO chime.
Ton seconds iater the reporter met a
man In the entrance corridor below a
nan Of military bearing. VINO respond,
ed Ia the name OF Captain Tsuscher and
a man decidedly in hurry.
Calls Won der Goltz Faker.
"Im sorry" he said. "but ny lawyers
have told me not 10 talk. BESIDES.
arm almost late for most important
engagement with two ladies whom !