Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-04-01


for the secret munitioning and coaling
of the ships. Possibly German ships
in other harbors were also involved.
The whole scheme collapsed early In
December. and the waiting reservists
were gradually disbanded.
Baked by IA Trick.
Admiral Sturdees Falkland island
victory on December s was probably
fatal to the plot When by a wireless
trick Won Spec was induced to put IN
at Port Stanley while he was hurry
ing from the Pacific to take his part
in the dash across to Africa, the fate
of the enterprise was sealed, for the
German fleet was sunk and a group of
helpless liners crossing to Africa
without powerful warshlps to protect
them would have been at the mercy
of the scattered cruisers which Brit
ain maintained in those waters. II Is
also possible, tho on this point | have
no information, that the excellent
British and American secret service
organizations may have fathomed the
plot At such an early stage that meas
ures were taken to make its execution
! impossible. German plots are gener-
ally so ponderous and complicated and
take so much time to develop that
! something goes wrong with the ma
| chinery before success is attained.
! Stories about plans to invade for
eisn countries are always subject to
suspicion. for such plans rarely leak
out, but Major Darnley Stuart
/ stephens. former member of the
/ British secret service, who claims to
! have important feats of espionage to
/ his credit in Germany publishes in
! the current English Review II letter
| from n highly placed German secret
agent in the United States written in
| 1913, which is at least interesting.
/ The unnamed German, after indulging
/ in some ironiCal comments about
! America, reminiscent of Won Papen's
celebrated phrase, "These idotic yam
KEGS" declares that Germany with
10000 men could master the United
! States. lie indicates that mo cAredi-
tion would land in two sections one
capturing Boston the other disem-
| barking at the head of the Ches0-
peake, and that the two armies would
! fight thSir way to a junction, NheE
the Industrial heart of the country
would have been conquered.
| Major Stuart-Stephens points out
that there is at present lying idle in
| German harbors enough tonnage to
carry German army of this size
! ~
that a German would reveal such Il
scheme if it We're seriously contem-
| plated, to a member of a rival intelli-
| gence service, and | quote it only to
! point out that so long as the british
navy controls at any rate the surface
| of the seas an attack of this nature
would not be permitted whatever the
result Of an engagement between the
German and American fleets. 1t may
| be that considerations of Sclt-lntereSt
and not sentiment would cause Eng
| land to prevent Germany from re-
couping herself from this war at
Americas expense, but the fact does
remain that the British navy has stood
and does stand between America and
danger from Germany, and this ought
not to be forgotten when the some
what high-handed methods taken by
/ England in dealing with neutral COM
merce are denounced.
Not Onc-Tcnth Revealed.
Tho bribery and corruption depart
ment of the German foreign office has
devoted only small fraction of its
| efforts during this war to the United
States. altho not one-tenth of what has
been going on in Mexico, America
and Japan has yet been revealed, ac-
cording to men here who are in touch
with these matters. Probably the
chief efforts of the Wilhelmstrasse
have been concentrated on Russia,
with remarkable results, among them
the incarceration of the war minister
of 1915, General Soukhomlinoff, in
the fortress Of st. Peter and st. Paul
on charge of high treason, and the
charge openly made on the floor of
the duma by Professor Miliukoff that
the 1916 premier, NJ Stuermer, was
In German pay And ir italy France
and even in England enemy agents
are active, but the censorship prevents
me from retailing many amazing Incl
dents showing the ubiquity and au-
dacity of teutonic agents in countries
of the entente.
1t is necessary to confine this story
to activities in neutral countries. At
the present time, according to my in
formation, German propaganda is be-
ing carried on with feVerish energy in
fourteen neutral and all the belliger-
ent countries. In Turkey and Bull
! garia, and to some extent in Greece,
German methods OF the kind with
which Americans have now become
familiar succeeded. In Italy, Ru-
mania, and apparently in America
they have failed. But success or fail
ure does not mean that activities
cease. IL uIhty Has tOlIlt Ol lllt
German side, backsheesh must con
tinue to be distributed to prevent her
from backsliding; If Italy took the
wrong turning, there Is hope that by
assiduous attentions she may be
redeemed"
Twenty Millions Day.
The distribution of money is by nc
means the only method of German
propaganda, nor is it the worst. tho it
may be the most persuasive. 1t costs
Germans about $20,000,000 a day to
fight this war, and she spent, accord
ing to an incomplete and conserva-
tive estimate, $373.000,000 in propa-
ganda, legitimate and illegitimate,
during the first year and a half of
war. This sum would carry on the
war for nearly three weeks and rep
esents arbout the cost of the Panama
canal.
The tactics used by Germany In
each country vary from assassination
TO peace meetings depending upon the
state OF civilization in the country
concerned and the object Germany
seeks to gain. There are three weap-
ons wielded-intimidat persuasion
and bribery. America has had a dose
of all three, but more of the second
than of the first and third. The little
! Scandinavian states bordering Ger