The Washington times., 1917-06-25

never been IN New YORK DeIoret put
she was ahead OF a number of peo-
pie in competition. and the man
choosing the stenographer they
wanted. a capable girl able to do his
work and to keep her mouth shut,
had been informed that she was the
party to choose-by other friends OF
ours.
"One day about 1--WE or six weeks
after she got there she informed us
that a great packing case was being
filled up with propaganda documents
and with bills of expense in con-
nection with explosions in munition
plants and other vital and valuable
things, and was to be shipped OF the
following week right straight to Eng
land on a Swedish ship and from
there to Germany.
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 in
structions-and may say incidentally
she Is now back at work getting her
SIS 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 IL
he could share her lunch with her.
She said certainly, and while they
were sharing the sandwiches he made
some sentimental advances as she In
rather a dreamy way took out
large red pencil and drew two big
red hearts on this packing case.
at was Capt. Won Papen himself
who put the arrow through them.
And, ladies and gentlemen. when
ha II
mouth they picked that package out
of the hold from about a hundred and
fifty others and identified II by the
two big red hearts. And yet they say
there are no brilliant people but the
Germans.
DIR. AIbert's Portfolio.
Another incident, the loss of a
portfolio belonging to DR.. Heinrich
Albert, an Austrian official, which
contained papers relating to Ambas-
sador Dumba's efforts to incite labor
troubles in the United States. created
quite a stir among the diplomats. Mr..
Rathom told OF how a Journal re-
porter got the papers as the result
OF which Dumba was sent back 10
Austria by the President.
zone OF the Journal reporters had
been shadowing DR.. Albert in New
York, but for months nothing seemed
wrong. One day he went into a
leather-goods store, where he order
ed a portfolio and gave the salesman
instructions to put his initials on II.
The reporter, as soon as Albert had
gone out, walked up to the salesman
and ordered another portfolio of the
same kind, but with no initials, say
ing he would rather first see how
the other gentleman's 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 initials put on his
portfolio. His work was becoming
less tiresome and less fruitless than
1t had been. A day or so later AL
bert, carrying his new portfolio, was
followed from the front OF his apart
ments by the Journal man. Albert
boarded an elevated train. He placed
his bag containing papers on the seat
beside him Suddenly he was stirred
by a night in the front OF the car.
As he stood up to see what the trou-
BILE was, as did nearly everybody
else in the car, the portfolios were
changed. This happened on a Satur-
day morning. Albert, in a statement
later, said that he discovered the
trick the same day, but we know
for a fact that he did not discover the
until Monday morning.
Needless to say the men who were
fighting on the street car were also
in the employ of the Journal"
The basement Plot.
1t was through the Journal, Mr..
RAthom said, that a great quantity Of
Important papers were secured from
Wolf Won Ingel. These papers revealed
the Easement plot for the Irish upris-
Ing. When the papers were taken. Mr.. /
Rathom said, IN Illustrating his point
that there is a certain amount of stu
pidity In all German dIpIomatists, Won |
Bernstorff made application to the
State Department to have them re
turned to him. and then realized how
he had committed himself in asking
that the papers be returned. !
Three days before Bernstorff was
ordered to return to Germany, Mr.. |
Rathom declared, he demanded that
the American Government suppress
the Providence Journal.
Waited Long to Convince Public.
Every statement that we have !
made in regard TO German plots in |
The United States has been proven to |
be positively true" declared Mr.. |
For the first nine or ten |
months no one believed what we
were saying. We were shouting 4
against the wind. The dismissal OF |
DR.. Dumba was the first result of our |
of effort.
We have not printed one-fftieth |
Df what we secured, but we were /
very glad, when events turned, to /
urn the key on the safe in which 1t I
IS deposited and forget the balance, |