The Detroit times., 1917-12-08
DETROIT is
HOTBED OF
PL0T TERS
-L o. RATuuM
Providence JOurna l
Man Tells Amazing
Story of Intrigue
- ~ RArnu'i

How D. loyal American newspaper
reporter lnemdug w womaB.
played rings around he leaders Of
the German proparandi-- in mr
country and outvHted them (, every
turn was told by John r. Rathom
editor of .hc Providence Journal TO-
group ~ Detroit Ecaapapor men
tn tfutri Staftcr Saturday morning
Mr., Rsthom WIZ give the .ory ol
his papers expose of German and
Austrian intrigue al patriotic dim
ner In the Detroit Athletic club So.
nieht Mr. Rathom and his organ
i2atiOu have played q leading part
IN putting ILe LID ON the- -aci-4itlp-
of the pl0tter- in The United Statss
and IN bringing many OF them TO
book
The story OF our fight is tho
story az Che ability and loyalty or
is ordinary American reporters.
members OF the staf of The Provi
Z dence Journal" said Mr. Rathom
ANY ono OF them could have sold
! out NJ HHy time Tor more money
/ than he ever saw In his life, but
they were loyal 20 the last man, and
too much credit cannot bee given
/ them. They were pitted against the
| brains OF the German secret cervice.
wonderfully perfect organization
and al the same time a most amaZ.
inS collection OF fatheads
IVA kapan ctrr Nrarr gUaiftaf fhn
German secret agents az the very
| outset OF the war. On the day Aus
tria declared war on Serbia we
started listening In on Sayville and
Tuckerton, the German wireless
stations Our paper has maintained
two wireless stations for the last 2
years and our station az Point Jud.
ith. z was for long time the
largest i'm the United States. For
the last three months we have had
In use one of the most powerful sta.
tions IN the world the location of
which we have not yet announced.
and the Point Judith station is serv
ing as an auxiliary
"The stuff that came thru by wire
less was simply amazing For the
NAHl ffNI UT IAN AA lANUNAf Nf
lleyed the stories we were printing,
not even our stockholders. and we
go the reputation Of being a yellow
sheet The public simply could not
conceive how men could plot I'm such
a fashion against q friendly nation
In the meantime, we had placed
I l3 men i'm various consulates, and
The results were immediate. re
tween them and The wireless We al
ready have enough material 10 keep
as going Tor 20 years
We knew an about KoltsChmidt's
operations in Detroit even before ~
was known 20 tho government We
have several OF tLo chects he
cssbcd Out of Dr Albcrts $4,000
00J fund He s merely type OF
many hundreds In the country who
have been doing The same kind OF
work When YOU multiply the sum
/ he received several hundred times
yo1 can get some idea OF how that
I $4,000 GOO wa spent
Detroit s q hotbcd Of the propa-
/ gandists. one of their chief centers
I In fact That is because Of ihe bis
foreign population that has been
drawn lete by your Industries and
/ because OF ils proximity 10 canada
4 u Was from Detroit that Paul
/ Koenig chief Of The secret service
of me Hamburg American line con.
Quoted the operations that were de-
sizned 20 blow up fhe Wflland
/ canal Thru Gao work of orr mon
I he was coppcl OF two days before
....fV grvvsr r.trf If. f,fnr.- and NN
I is now serving time I'm prison
II should say Thar at least io per
cent OF the threatening letters w
have received came from Detroit
and vicinity Perhaps il Wiu sur.
prise YOU go know that our nrsdn.z0
ton has $50 reprcecniauFos hcro,
part of the 500000 men and women
of Bohemian or slavic ancestry rcat
tered over lhc country, 8 volunteer
assistants Thcy have hceg oi great
value o ue. especial. hero m Dee
'rof and now rhat wn 0re also at
/ war with Nuetri3 fbcf presence Nill
SERVE 90 safety tg.t" Ihr GO.
/ operation mat bass boon given u-
hy rbo bohemian National alliance
and tha Croat8u alliance ha becn
wonderful
Th, lar- uere'uae 0f G"rm5u.
I'm thi- emart $3.50 Uc loyal $50 th,
,onntrt o her adoption ars in %
ycr, pirfl eifIafion IHcy arc com.
PEELED fo hoUacr b'me that is NOT
Theirs rlr aU,u cDrUy zono sSe
tenn les sr, and works injustice
and har1h hp 'u uanI innocent poo