Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-09-25

| magazine Winters and war correspond
ents James +. ]. Archibald. now In
Washington. and Edwin Emerson, said
to be in Africa. The following curious
entry appears in Won Igel's official rec
ords:
PURE WAR EXPENSES.
! Edwin Emerson $l,oOO
! Fair Play (Mr. Braun ........ $4,000
| Fair Play CMr Braun) 1890. 800
Marcus Brun .-.''.'''..'..'. si'OOO
! j. Archibald ..................$ 5,OOO .
Concerning the identity of the last
entry there might be room for doubt
| but for a signed receipt from j. f. j.
Archibald acknowledging the sum of
| $4,000 from the German embassy for
| propaganda work. What return Archi-
bald ever made in service is not clear,
except that certain war correspondents
for which he contracted with New York
newspapers was so obviously prejudiced
on the side Of the central powers that
they declined to accept it.
Fair Play" that misnamed organ of
! Teutonic inspiration, appears to have
been subsidized quite disproportionately
| TO It's value, since it received in all
] $4,000 in the course of a few months
in 1915. Marcus Braun. who appears
as its editor, is known as a political
leader among the Hungraians of lower
| SeCOnu avenue, III new 10TH, anu mas
been variously connected with the
| fringes of the publication world. He is
supposed himselfSto be a Hungarian.
His associate in Fair Play was one ]. P.
Bryan.
Even with such liberal support Fair
! Play" did not fill the bill, for in Janu-
airy, 1916, a letter was written by F.
Schroeder, a German newspaper cor
respondent in Toxic, to the German
! diplomatic representatives lamenting the
lack of a genuinely influential weekly
/ in New York devoted to Teutonic in
| terests and suggesting that one Borsodi
| might be the right man to conduct such
| a publication
! Frequent hints of George Sylvester
| Viereck's journalistic activities appear,
and there are few notations of Pear
| son: Subject, Press" which may refer
| to Pearsons Magazine, of which the
| editor, Frank Harris, is strongly pro-
| German or may indicate secret agent
named Pearson, who is the subject of
! other entries.
! The lecture platform is represented
by Ray Beverage, the California artist,
and sister of Kuehne Beveridge, the
| prominent sculptor. In one entry Privy
| Counsellor Albert acknowledges receipt
| of $4,000 from the embassy to finance
| Miss Beveridge's lecture tour. German
war pictures were also to be furnished,
through the alleged scope of the lee
lures was to be comprised In topics al
| lied to Red Cross work.
other figures of more vague import
| drift into light here and there in the Won
Igel papers or the Bureau of Investi-
| cation reports Colonel z. G. Woodford
| an old British hater, appears 20 have
| received sundry sums of money for
services unsDecified.
SOME LETTERS.
The following letters found in the Won
| Igel papers refer to Colonel Woodford:
New York, April 4, 1916.
His Excellency, Mr.. Won Igel,
New York. n. Y:
According to a letter received here
today the imperial embassy is of the
same opinion as myself-that money
should not be paid to Woodford
Please act accordingly and inform
| Woodford, If he should show up there
again, that Berlin has received the let
ter regarding the sum to be paid and
has besides again been asked by tele-
graph whether money should be paid.
Until answer is received from Berlin,
nothing more can be paid.
(Signed) PRETZELL.
Colonel Woodford appears, however.
from the following letter to have re-
celVed the sums promised.
New York. April 10, 1916
His Excellency Mr.. Won 1gel:
Please pay the remainder of $3.50 to
Woodford. He is to receive $500 ac-
cording to order (from Berlin).
Please have the inclosed receipt at
tested.
.(Signed) P. r.
All these, it must be remembered, are
but a small portion of one German
agents records. They represent but
one chamber as it were, in an enormous
and complicated maze of underground
plotting other entries appear too
vague to indicate anything more definite
THAI some connection with or interest
In enterprise already notorious-pay-
ment to the Welland canal conspiracy;
correspondence with DR.. Walter Scheele,
accused of being a bomb manufacturer;
references to the Maverick and the An
ME Larsen, blockade runners; side lights
on Japanese propaganda, Mexican plots
and Canadian lines of secret informa-