Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1917-09-23

1t would appear from report OF the
German military information bureau
dated March q, 1916
Capt Boehm decided to leave Al
ter reports received here were sub
mitted to him to the effect that mem
bers of the press were informed as
to his personality and the purpose OF
his being here. Too great confidence
in the silence of his fellow men, es.
pecially the members of the Ameri-
can Truth society, was
probably the cause of his becoming
quickly known here"
So the notorious American Truth
society, which so strenuously denied
its pro-German associations, figures
as indirectly linked up with Ger
many's secret representatives This
society is still extant and Jeremiah
A. OLeary, its moving spirit, is now
the editor of Bull, recently shut out
of the mails for publishing seditious
matter.
Many inventors, some of them OBJ
viously cranks, are represented either
by correspondence or notation as hay
ing plans involving the use of sundry
devices of destruction. One entry OF
the sort merits special attention be
cause of the notoriety of the individ-
ual involved. Here it is, translated
from the German record of cores
pondence:
June Is, 1915. Sender, c. s. Vier-
eek. Contents, inquiry as to bombs /;
supply offer. Told to send further
details"
Possibly the further details are in
dicated in another entry of four
months later
Sender, Viereck. Contents, offer
of picric acid"
Picric acid is constituent of many
high explosives. Mr. Viereck is some
thing of high explosive himself. hav-
ing been editor of the virulently pro-
German weekly Fatherland, of New
York.. now changed in title (but not
in purpose) to "Viereck's Weekly"
Just what interest DIR. L. A. Dessar,
of % Broad street, New York City,
had in German aerial warfare is q
matter for speculation.
In the Won Igel archives appears a
letter from R. L. Scoville, of Sewick-
ley, Pa, and New York City, urging
the merits of the Semple aerogrenade.
DR.. Dessar evidently forwarded the
letter where he thought it would do
the most good, viz. to Won Igel.
Carefully preserved flor what pur-
pose one can only conjecture) are two
letters written early in 1916 by T. ].
Bowling. of 107 Franklin avenue,
Hartford, Conn.,, to Count Won Bern
storff, the German ambassador. eX-
planning a little plan of the writer's
to get rooms near various munitions
factories and blow them up. Specifi-
cally, he expressed willingness to de-
stroy the Scoville Manufacturing COM
pany and the Chase Mills, of Water
vile, Conn; the Remington Arms
company and the Union Metallic Cart
ridge company factories in Bridge
port, Con-, and when that was COM
pleted he thought that he might go
out to Port Huron, Mich, and blow
up the Grand Trunk tunnel near that
place. AS all these constructions are
still standing, it is obvious that Mr.
Dowling's plans failed to commend
themselves to his distinguished cor
respondent. His present whereabouts
are not known.
Other would-be destroyers of Ger
many's foes were less definite Fami-
ly pride was the energizing motive of
Mr.. C. ]. Waldron of Medusa, N. Y,
who wrote that, being a direct de-
scendant of Baron Won Waldron, he
was deeply interested in the German
cause. wherefore he proffered april
10, 1850 a shell of his own inven-
ton. 1t was not accepted.
A note of grim humor is supplied by
William ]. Ruff, of Quincy, Ill. whose
letter of July 26, 1915, to Capt Won
Papen suggests new methods of blow
ing up trenches and planting mines
for ships. my sole idea," explains
the ingenious Mr.. Ruff, sis to help
and save lives" @ Nothing in the
Won Igel archives supplies evidence
that Mr.. Rufus singular lifdsaving
practices were adopted.
OF more direct military interest to
this country is the espionage enter
prise limited at in a secret code mes
sage of April IL, 1916, signed 1922
1929 46919," addressing Won Igel to
this effect:
Herewith respectfully send an eX-
tract regarding the troops stationed
in California and the armament of
the coast Notifications"
Journalists, lecturers and publish
ers were literally employed by Won
Igel and his associates for the pur-
pose of German propaganda. Among
those thus tainted with the stigma of
dishonorable professional conduct are
two magazine writer's and war cor
respondents, James F. ]. Archibald,
now in Washington, and Edwin Emer-
son, said to be in Africa. The follow