French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1917-08-16


the party to ehoose-by other friends
Of ours. One day about five or sir
weeks after she got there she informed
US that a great packing case: was being
filed up with propaganda documents
and with bills Of expense in connec-
ton with explosions in munition plants
and. other vital and valuable things,
and was to be shipped of the follow
ing week right straight to England On
a Swedish ship and from there to Ger
many.
Won PapeR FLirts.
1.-THE only thing we could possibly do
was to identify the package. One day
when they were about to close the
package up this girl, under instruc-
tions-and I may say, incidentally she
is now back at work getting her $16,a
Week-sat on this box eating her lunch.
Nearly everybody else had gone, but
Won Papen, rather debonair and fond
of ladies', wandered in and sat on the
packing box and asked If he could
share her lunch with her. She said
certainly, and while they were shming
the sandwiches he made some senti-
mental advances and she in rather q
dreamy way lookout a large red pencil
and drew two big red hearts on this
packing case. It was Captain Won Pa
pen himself who put an arrow through !
them. And, ladies and gentlemen,
when the ship Austrias IL reached Fall
mouth they picked that.package out Of
the hold from about a hundred and. If
ty others and identified it by the two
big red hearts. And yet they say there
are no brilliant people but the Ger
mans.
"Anothef Incident, the loss of a port
folio belonging to DR.. Heinrich Albert,
an Austrian official, which contained
papers relating to Ambassador Dunn
ba's efforts to incite labor troubles I'M
the United States, created quite a stir
among the diplomats. Mr.. Rathom told
Of how a Journal reporter got the pa
pers as the result of which Dumba was
sent back to Austria by the president.
zone of the journal reporters had
been shadowfng Doctor Albert in New
York, but for months nothing seemed
wrong. One day he went into a leather
goods store, where he ordered a port
folio and gave the salesman instruc-
tons to put his initials On it. The res
porter, as soon as Albert had gone QUIT.
walked up to the salesman and ordered
another portfolio Of the same kind, but
with no initials, saying he would
rather first see how the other gent1e-
mans initials looked. When he~came
back and saw the initials he said he.
didn't like them and departed to go to-
another shop and have the same int
tiaIs put on his portfolio. His work
was becoming less tiresone and less
fruitless than it had been.
ga day Or two later Albert, carry
ing the new portfolio, was followed
from the. front of his apartments BY
the Journal man. Albert boarded4an
elevated train. He placed his bag con-
tanning papers on the seat beside him.
Suddenly he was stirred by a fight in
the front Of the car. AS he stood up
to see what the trouble was as did
nearly everybody else in the car, the
portfolios were-changed. This hap
pened on a Saturday morning. Albert,
in a statement later, said that he dis
covered the trick the same day, but
we know for a fact that he did not dis
cover the difference until Monday
morning. Needless to say, the men who
were fighting on the street ear were
also in the employ Of the Journal
cit was through the Journal, Mr..
Rathom said, that a great quantity Of
important papers were secured from
Wolf Won Igel. These papers revealed
the Easement plot for the Irish upris-
ing. When the papers were taken, MI.
Rathom said, in illustrating his point
that there is a certain amount Of stu
pidity In all German diplomatists, Won
Bernstorf made application to the
state department to have them re-
turned. He was told that any paper he
could identity would be returned to
him,1 and then realized how be had
committed himself In asking that the
papers be returned. ~
Asked Journal Suppression.
"Three days before Bernstorf was
ordered to return to Germany, Nj.
Rathom declared, he demanded that
the American government suppress the
Providence Journal. : r.
every statement that we have
made in regard to German plots In the
United States has been proven to be
positively true declared Mr.. Rathom.
For the first nine or ten months no one
believed what we were saying. We
were shouting against the wind. The
dismissal Of Doctor Dumba was the
first result Of our months of effort.
"sWe have not printed one-fftieth Of
what we secured, but we were very
glad, when events turned, to turn the
key on the safe in which it is deposits
ed and forget the balance, because the
work we tried to do has been accom-
plished.'"