The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-23
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tContinucd from Previous TaEe'i not presented to the state departmen until ' o'clock that evening. Meanwhile Easement had spent several hours in al Irish prison
 It is not improbable that the sigma ture at the bottom of the extraordinar. message which follows is in the "ciphe Devoy" referred to in the Won Ige papers New York Supreme Court Jus tice Daniel F. Cohalan has long beer prominent in Irish-American circles though he has never been directly ident fled with violent action.
 That Judge Cohalan, however, is helt in high favor by the pro- German ele nent of this country is evidenced by tho fact that Viereck's Weekly, in making selections recently for the most impor- tant political offices in this country puts him forth for the position of Unlteo States senator from New York.
 The communication as translated into Won Igel's record is typewritten, line for line, below a, cipher, except for tn. signature, which remains untranslatet from the original cipher figures. It is dated New York, April r, 1916, numbered s35-l6, and inscribed at the top Very secret
 No ss5-16
 '.very secret
 New York. April r, 1916
 Judge Cohalan requests the trans mission Of the following remarks
 The revolution in Ireland can only be successful if supported from Ger many, otherwise England will be able to suppress it, even though it be only after hard struggles. Therefore, help is necessary. This should consist pri- marily, of aerial attacks in England and q diversion of the fleet simultaneous ly with Irish revolution. Then, if possi- ble, landing of troops, arms, and ann intuition in Ireland,- and possibly some officers from Zeppelins. This would en- able the Irish ports to be closed against England and the establishment of sta tions for submarines on the Irish coast and the cutting off of the supply of food for England. The services of the revo- Iution may, therefore. decide the war
 He asks that telegram to this ef- feet be sent to Berlin.
 '5132 S167 0230
 "To His E,xcellency
 Count Von Bernstorff.
 Imperial Ambassador,
 Washington, D. e.
 Along this same line is a code messa ge by wireless to Banker Max Moebius, Oberwallstras Berlin, which is inter esting chiefly as showing the code method of important communications practced by the German official plotters in this country. The code translation was found with the copy of the message among Won Igel's Fapers. The original is a German dispatch which, being translated into English, sounds like an innocent business transaction, viz:
 National Germania Insurance con- tract certainly promised. Executor is evidently satisfied with proposition. Necessary steps have been taken.
 HENRY NEUMAN." Not so innocent and harmless as it looks. for what the message really means is this:
 Irish agree to proposition. The neces- sary steps have been taken
 Canada was also the object of solicitous interest on the part of Ger manys representatives in America, as was startlingly proven in the plot to blow up the Welland canal Another lesser but not unpromIsing enterprise Igel because the volunteer plotter was too old, though he has the best of good will,' and also because of his known connection with the Gaelic-Amer- fcan and the Indian revolutionists Such is the indorsement upon the letter, signed fications for fomenting disorders in Que bee.
 "As honorary president of the first Independence club started at Montreal about the time of the Boer war, and of which the Hon. Honore Mercier, now minister of colonization in the govern ment of the Province of Quebec, was one of the vice presidents and later president, I am well known among the members and journalists in that organ ization. ** There is now in the place of the Independence club se- cret society based upon it's principles, aiming at the total separation of Can ada from the British empire. It includes all the former members of the Independence club and men high in Ca nadian political life. The adherents are for the most part French and Irish Ca [ am in daily connection with one of the leading men in the sep aration movement, Hon. J. Hall Kelly, who is member of the legislative coun- cil of the Province of quebec. and also a member of the government"
 Information carefully and extensively set forth in the secret, documents of the German officialdom was sometime wide of the facts For example, a lengthy memorandum of March l. l916 by the secret agent, Captain Boehm, dealing with the Mexican crisis, appears to have been largely the work of some fervid and protective irnagina-
 
 line President Wilson's expected message to Congress. It predicts that the Pres- ldent will attribute MexIco's anti-Amer- lean activities direct to German money and indictment; that he will call upon Congress to support him in radical meas ures (the prophet even attempts to par- aphrase the language to be employed in the message); that Congress will in dorse the Presidents stand, following W hich upward of 150 German spies and agent provocateurs were to be arrested and the ambassadors of the central pow CTS to receive their passports.
 For all this, Captain Boehm's author lty is thus indicated over his own sig nature:
 2ssThe foregoing memorandum was just given to me by an acquaintance return Ing from Washington. The 'acquaint- ance' is a skillful journalist who has good connections. I cannot vouch for his reliability. but I know that he hates the present administration and fights it. His informant is a former secretary of