Evening star., 1917-09-23
5000 from the German embassy
propa&andA work.
1air Play'' Got 4x,5oo.

$1,000 from tho German smoassy Tor
propaganda work. ~
stTair Play" Got @x,5oo.
Fair Play appears to have been sub
sidised quite disproportionately to its
value. sincs It received In all $500 in
the course Of . few months in 1915.
Marcus Braun. who appears A. its ed
itor, In known Is q political leader
among the HunEarians Of lower I'd
avenue In New York. and has been
variously connected with the fringes
Of tho publication world. He IL sup
posed himself 70 Be Hungarian. His
associate In Fair Play was one J. P.
Bryan.
Even with such liberal support Fair
Play did not NIL the bill. for in jan
uary. 1915. letter was written by F.
respondent in TOXIC. to the German Dip
lomatic representatives lamenting tho
lack Of q genuinely influential weekly
in New York devoted to Teutonic in
terests. and suggesting that one Bor-
sodi might be the right man to con-
duct such . publication.
Lecture Platform Represented.
Tho lecture platform is represented
by Ray Beveridge. tho California artist,
and sister Of Kuehne Beveridge. the
prominent sculptor. In one entry Privy
Counselor Albert Acknowledges receipt
Of $4,000 from tho embassy to finance
Miss Beveridge's lecture tour German
war pictures were also to be furnished,
was to be comprised in topics allied to
Red Cross work.
Other figures Of more vague import
drift into light here and there in the
Won 1gel papers or the bureau Of in
ford, an old British hater. appears to
have received sundry sums Of money for
services unspecined. The following let
ters found In the Won Igel papers refer
to Col. Woodford:
New York, April 4. 1915
His Excellency Mr.. Won Igel. New York,
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. II 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.
fSigned) PRETZELL.
Coi Food1ord appears, however.
ceived the sums promised:
New York. April 10, 1916
his Excellency Mr. Won fgel:
Please pay the remainder Of two
hundred and fifty dollars to Woodford.
He is to receive $500 according to
order (from Berlin).
Please have the inclosed receipt at
tested. (Signed) Pr.
Side Lights on German Plots.
All these, it must be remembered are
but small portion Of one German agent g
Der, as It were, in an enormous and COM
plicated maze Of underground plotting.
Other entries appear too vague to indi-
cate anything more definite than some
connection with or interest in enterprises
already noeorious-payments to the We'll
land canal conspiracy; correspondence
with DR.. Walter Scheele, accused OF being
a bomb manufacturer: references to the
Maverick and the Annie Larsen, blockade
runners: side lights on Japanese propa-
ganda, Mexican plots and Canadian lines
OF secret information; even hints that off,
GERS high in the military service Of the
United States were being improperly used
for German military enterprises.
How far the plot goes will probably
never be known. The spider, Won Igel,
Germany. His nest is destroyed. But
the strands Of the web that he wove may
still stretch over the city or town which
you who read this inhabit
contraband Through Holland.
It has long been an open secret that
Holland is merely a way station for
shipments of contraband into Germany.
Here is official confirmation from the
Won Igel records, which would seem to
indicate a suspicious and confidential
relation between the Holland commits
sion" and the German diplomatic ON
cials accredited to this country. or pos
sibly a belief by tho Germans that they
could not successfully get the muni-
tions to their own country. The mes
sage. in code. with interlinear trans
headed. German Embassy. washing
ton. D. c.. April 6. 1916" 1t runs as
follows:
Telegram from Berlin by secret,
roundabout way for Carl Heysen: Con-
sent sale Holland 100000 chests (car-
get in touch with Holland commission
Sender. war minister. foreign office, in
representation.
"(Signed) HATZFELDT."
While chiefly concerned with military
affairs in Europe. the representatives
of supposedly friendly nation We're
keeping an interested watch on our
own activities in that line. A secret
code message Of April IL. 1916. signed.
1922 1929 46919,' addressed Won Igel,
was to this effect:
Herewith respectfully send an ex-
tract regarding the troops stationed in
California and the armament OF the
coast fortiflcations."
STUDY IS BEING MADE
OF CIVIL WAR PRICES.