The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-02-20

In buying Mexican passports fur Ger
mans two handsome Mexican Women
were used. They were supplied with
money. so that they had an automobile.
lived in a fashionable apartment. en-
tertaired iavishly ana succeeded in
throwing out hints concerning money
To be made easily. Next, Swiss and
swedish passports were used. and oC-
c~asionally the Germans got an Eng
lish document.
The Admiralty division ~ the
General War Staff also has directed
activities in America. The con
n~ection between the Hamburg Ameri-
can steamship Line and Admiral
Won Tirpitz's staff was shown in tie
trial of the steamship officials who
were prosecuted and convicted hy
Roger b. Wood, Assistant United
States District Attorney in New York.
The evidence produced 10y Mr.. Wood
and other evidence which he offered Ia
produce told of "A secret code FOR
use between the HIamhurg-Amcrican
Steamship captains and the Admiralty.
that there was an agreement between
h line and TIE German Government
by which in event of Val the Officials
were to make arrangem.nt to send
supplies from American ports Ia the
German raiders who made such spec
tacular captures.
The trial showed how more thar So
00O. 900 was spent IN buying and equip
ping vessels which sailed from .\mcri-
can ports with false clearance papers
bound for certain points in The Al
lantic and Pacific oceans where they
were TO meet the German warships.
The passport frauds and the Ham
burg-American trial furnished con
elusive evidence to the American Gov
eminent of the in which the
German General War Staff, sitting by
wireless in New York. directed meas
ures in behalf of the ~fatherland, but
in direct violation IF American laws.
Every German reserv.st had his stand
ing orders. He was assigned To defi-
mite work pending the opportunity 20
get back to Germany or he Was re-
Guired to leave his address and tcle-
phone number with "A certain man in
New York. lie had his instructions as
tC what he should he prepared to do in
NItuih t'lllihbNi'f I'VE.
In keeping with that general scheme
both ~reservists and natura,ized .Ameri-
cans who had served under the Kaiser
and who had registered as ready t.
fight for the fatherland have been
stationed in every city and town Of
importance in the country. assigned
to tasks OF gathering information and
to work that would hamper the Allies
The German General Staff. which
embodies more than one hundred years
of preparations for wars in Prussia
and which has its aids spreading
throughout tho world like so many
tentacles Of n huge octopus, foresaw
quickly the manner in which America
would be used as n vast supply base by
the enemy. 1t knew OF historic bat
ties that had been lost through the
failure Of troops to arrive at an APP
pointed pace on scheduled time or
through the lack of foresight in having
supply trains come up promptly. EN-
perts In every phase Of wnr, the Gem
eral Stan planned not tn depend on
such things to occur by accident be-
hind the enemies lines. but to see to
it that reenfOrcements. fresh euuip-
ment. arms and ammunition should
not reach the Allies battle lines in
Russia, France or In Flanders accord
ing to arrangements.
The German War STAFF, In other