Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-09-13
TACEDLATT RAID
DISCLOSES PLOT
Evidence OF Nationwide Con-
spiracy Found in Office of
Philadelphia Paper.
BOGUS NEWS SYNDlCATED
Two More Editors Surrender And Are
Held In $40. 900 Bail
Others to Appear.

Evidence seized by the government
agents in their raid on the Philadel-
phia Tageblatt Office at 107 North
Sixth street, Philadelphia, on Monday
evening is alleged to show a nation
wide conspiracy against the United
States.
In the books and records of the
Tageblatt is evidence that it received
regular money contributions from a
person in Mexico, supposed TO have
been German agent. The books also
show that the Tageblatt was not sup
ported by the German labor organi
cations, for which it processes TO be
1.-THE official organ. but had entire diff
ferent sources of income.
AT the same time, the Tageblatt en-
ployed a man who came to this coun-
try after the war began, whose whole
family is in Germany, and who got
an important position in the editorial
department as sort of German cen
sor to see that the paper was kept in
the right German and anti-American
tone
Letters From Congressman.
In the correspondence of the paper
letters were found from several
prominent Congressmen, including
Senator La Toilette.
While the Tageblatt editors were
drawing on their Imagination TO
manufacture German victories and
American distress, food scarcity, mill
tary impotence and disaster, the Off
cial information sent to the paper by
the United States Government depart
ments was thrown into the waste
paper baskets he Tageblatt editors
didn't even take the trouble of open
\ ing the envelope containing true in
formation sent out by the United
States Government to all newspapers
This kind of news was found in seal
ed envelopes, ust as it was received,
\ in the wastepaper bales recovered in
the raid
/ All the time the Tageblatt editors
were doing this, they sat in their
Office and wrote fake kilograms and
cablegrams purporting to come from
Amsterdam, Berlin, London, Petro-
grad, and Washington bolstering up
the Kaiser's cause and designed to
injure America The point about the
articles which the Tageblatt manu-
featured in its own Office but printed
with the date lines of foreign cities
il that by putting these date lines on
their homemade fabrications the
Tageblatt editors made it appear as
Il the stores had been passed upon
and approved by official French, Eng
fish, or American censors.
National German Propaganda.
The records seized in the Tageblatt
raid also indicated that it was in con-
slant communication with Germans
throughout the country, and that its
serial stories were syndicated German
propaganda assembled and sent out in
matrix form from the Office of the
New York Staats-Zeitung These long
syndicate stories were all part of ma
tional German propaganda and con-
tanned rarely anything except argu-
ments in favor of Germany and
twisted historical revie attacking Eng
land, France and Italy, and blaming
them for the war, in which Germany
was the innocent, inoffensive victim
OF brutal attack and inscriptions
intrigue.
Besides the two editors arrested at
the time of the raid, Herman Lemke,
the business manager, and DR.. Martin
Darkow, the managing editor; two
other editors have surrendered, and
their bail was fixed at $4,000 each.
he men held were Louis Werner. edi-
tor in chief, and Waldimar Alfredo,
an editorial writer Peter Schaefer.
President of the company which pub
fishes the Tageblatt, and Paul Vogel,
Treasurer, the other men wanted,
were in Cincinnati, it was said, and
their counsel promised they would be
in Philadelphia tomorrow.