Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1917-09-27

pose OF SLlTTluS up IdDOI tAOuOACS -
munition, plants.
The bomb industry and other related
| activities.
Some Of the Plots Against Y. s.
Briefly, GermaHy's spy plots against
the United States, as made pubic DI
committee on public information, are
as follows:
In the fall of 1914, shortly after
the outbreak of the war, the Ger
man embassy established publicity
department at 60 Wall street, under
| the direction of Wolf Won lgei.
About two years later this office
was raided and documentary proof
obtained that Wolf Won Igel was the
chief spy and plotter Of vast sys-
tenn maintained in the United
States under Ambassador Won Bern
storff's general direction.
Paul Koenig, pretending to con-
duct the secret service of the Ham,
burg-American Steamship company
from New York Office. was discov.
cred to be in reality one Of the d.
in the United States. He is now In
termed at Fort Oglethorpe, In Won
Bernstorff's code he was known as
Xxx"
In report by Koenig to his boss,
Captain Won Papen Of the German en-
bassy, Koenig describes an agent
who has made bombs to resemble
Jumps of coal to be placed on board
merchantmen sailing from New
York for the purpose of blowing
them up while at sea.
James F. J. Archibald, magazine
writer and war correspondent, &C.
knowledged receipt Of $1,000 from the
German embassy for propaganda work.
! Edwin Emerson, another correspond
ent, got $1,000.
John Dewey of New York city, pro-
| fessional Irish patriot, and now editor
; of the Gaelic-American, was the active
| agent of Germany in this country in
promoting the recent revolution in Ire
land. He was the go-between for
! Bernstorff and Sir Roger Easement,
executed for treason by the British
government. Dewey handled a check
for $1,000 from the German embassy
for Easement.
Daniel f. Cohalan, justice of the
New York supreme court, asked the
German embassy to telegraph to Berlin
advice on the Irish revolution, as "the
! services Of this revolution may decide
the war;"
The Chicago branch of the German
and AuStrO-Hungarian Labor 1nfOrma-
ton and Relief bureau was active in
promoting labor disorder. DR.. Max
Niven of Chicago received $50 for the
labor fund"
Completeness Of the German spy
system was due to loyalty TO the kaiser
of Americans of German extraction
who were willing to betray the coun-
try Of their adoption.
Canada was also the object of Ger
man conspirators operating in the
United States under the direction of
the German embassy. There were un-
successful plots to destroy the Welland
canal and to accomplish the separa-
ton of Canada from the British en-
pire.
G. S. Viereck, editor of the Father
land, now changed in title (but not in
purpose) to Viereck's Weekly, offered
help in supplying picric acid, con-
stituent of many high explosives.
William ]. Ruff of Quincy, ILL.,, want
ed to help "save lives" by providing
! the Germans with device to blow up
trenches and destroy ships.
Ray Beveridge, California artist, re-
ceived $4,000 from the German en-
bassy for a pro-German lecture tour,
| masquerading in part as a Red Cross
| feature.
Bernstorffs staff was busy also with
| promoting the transportation of NUM-
tons through Holland, supposedly a
neutral.
Wolf Won Igels spy system produced
: secret code message April II, 1916,
to this effect: Herewith respectfully
| send an extract regarding troops sta
toned in California and the armament
of the cost fort Notifications"
More DupIicity Is Shown.
How Germany "shamefully abused
and exploited" the protection of the
United States by secreting in the Ger
man legation at Bucharest, after the
American government had taken
charge of Germany's affairs at the
Roumanian, capital quantities of pow
erful explosives for bomb plots and
deadly microbes, With instructions for
their use in destroying horses and cat
tie, was revealed by Secretary Lansing.
The latest story is told in a report
to the state department from William
Whiting Andrews, secretary Of the le-
CATION at Bucharest, and letter from
Foreign Minister Porombaru Of Rou-
mania.
Stunned by Revelations.
The publication of Lansings latest
bombshell, Bernstorffs letter to his