The Alaska daily empire., 1917-06-27
Veil Lifted by Editor of Providence Journal in Long Address Before
 NeWSpapermen SPARKS CAUGHT DOPE Entire Conversations Are Taken Down and the Plans of PIOtterS are
 Discovered

TORONTO, June 2O-(By mail) One of the most amazing stories
 ever told to Toronto audience was
 an address to the Canadian Press
 Association by John A. Rathom, edi- tor and publisher of the Providence
 Journal, a few days ago. The ad-
 dress was entitled Some Inside His tory' and lifted the veil as to the
 manner that newspaper was able to
 reveal so many German conspiracies
 in the United States.
 The Journal happened upon it's
 course of exposure through having had for ten years before the war
 what other papers described as a
 bug" on wireless telegraphy. The
 paper had maintained two powerful
 wireless plants at Point Judith and
 at Block Island. When war broke
 out, they had decided to ''listen in" on the messages crossing the Allan tic. For five months they kept rec
 ord of these messages, and they then set out to find the codes and make
 revelations. Of this material they secured only a fractional part.
 "A friend of mine," said MT. Rath-
 om. thinking himself very friendly,
 but in a thing which I objected to, went to Paris and while there pur-
 chased lot of war relics. Among them, was one of the first iron
 crosses that had been given by the German Emperor to a major of a regiment who died on the field, and
 whose cross had been taken from him and taken to Paris. It was sold to my friend with statement as to
 whom it belonged, and my friend sent | it to me.
 "I sent it to Bernstorff with a let ter saying that a mark of honorable distinction for man who had done
 his duty for his country belongs to his family; I gave the name of the
 man and the name of the family,
 and begged him to take care of the
 cross, so that it could be sent back after the war or at some time to the mans people.
 The True Bernstorff
 "The ambassador tore the note in the man I sent and thew the cross
 on the floor, saying that after hav- ing been defiled by the hands of American dogs, the cross was of no
 use to anybody in Germany. 1 knew
 my man was telling the truth, be-
 cause the man I had in there report
 ed the incident to me exactly the
 way he did" Uaughter).
 Incidentally I might say that the individual to whom I refer was in
 the German embassy IF months as
 one of the ambassadors secretaries
 and the ambassador had no know
 ledge that he was not what he pre-
 tended to be until the Frederic VIII left New York for Halifax He said to may man: You had better get aboard or you will lose your boat"
 and he replied: q am safer on this side''
 "In the famous Huerta case-the
 attempt of the German government to embroil us with Mexico-an at tempt that the recent Zimmerman let ter proved beyond any doubt to be true, was already proved by us long time before. Early in the war my man at the embassy-I say my I mean our man because am not the Providence Journal-was ordered by Capt. Boyed to go to New York and get a suite of six quiet rooms in a hotel where BOy-Ed and his
 people could meet Huerta. Naturally, though. my man being loyal. he could do nothing else than select the rooms we selected for him, so he went to the Manhattan Hotel and got suite of rooms, which we rigged up with the apparatus. and to make assurances double sure, got another man toact as chauffeur on the auto that brought Huerta.
 They had their conference and every
 word that was uttered uttered by
 means of an interpreter. because
 Boy-Ed did not speak Spanish-waa
 sent down to the department of state
 the next morning. They had the en- tire facts before them. and knew ev- erything, and several months later,
 when Boy-Ed and Bernstorff were
 frothing at the mouth and uttering denials. the state department had the very words that were uttered. (Ap- plause.)
 The Clever Stenoorapher
 Another incident" he continued,
 that is of great interest came when one of our most valued and keenest stenographers in our own office, girl that came to us seven years ago from about twenty miles outside of
 Providence. was given position in the office of the American Consul General in New Yordk City. She had never been in New York before, but she was head of number of people in competition. and the man choosing the stenographer-they wanted ca pablo girl able to do his work and to keep her mouth shut-had been