The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-09-24
NEW LIGHT
ON GERMAN
INTRIGUES
Seized Papers Show Justice
Cohalan Urged Air
Raids on England
HOLLAND A WAY STA
TION FOR MUNITIONS
Dewey, O'Leary and Viereck
Among Those Involved
in Latest Expose

ptpN' w th'i Wis
closures of reaching German prop
Uganda, intrigues and plots in this coun-
try prior to the diplomatic break with
Germany were made Saturday by the
committee of public information.
In a bulletin styled Official Expose,
the committee quotes numerous letters
and extracts from letters seized by the
department of justice in April, 1915, in a
raid upon the New York offices of Wolfe
Won lgel. Won lge, in carrying on his
manifold pro-German and anti American
activities, the documents show, was in
constant touch with the German embassy
and with Count Won Bernstortf, then the
German ambassador TO the United
States.
In the form of letters, kilograms, no
tations, checks, receipts, ledgers, cash
books. ciper codes, lists of spies and
other memoranda and records" the com
mittee says, "were found indications-in
one instance of the vaguest nature, in
Others of the most damning conclusive
ness-that the German imperial govern
ment through its representatives in a
then friendly nation was concerned with
violation of the laws of the United
States, destruction of lives and prop
erty in merchant vessels on the high seas,
Irish revolution plots against Great Brit
ain, fomenting ill feeling against the
United States in Mexico, subornation of
American writers and lecturers, financing
of propaganda, maintenance of a spy
system under guise of ~ commercial in.
vestigatlon bureau, substituting of bu-
reau for the purpose of stirring up labor
troubles in munitions plants, the bomb
industry and other related activities"
The committee, of which Secretaries
lansing Baker and Daniels are members
and George Creel chairman, has this to
say concerning Holland:
1T has long been an open secret that
Holland is merely way-station for
shipments of contraband into Germany. |
Here is official confirmation from the |
Won lgel records which would seem to in. |
dicate suspicious and confidential rela.
ton between the Holland commission
and the German diplomatic officials ac.
credited to this country or possibly a be.
lief by the Germans that they could not
successfully get the munitions to their
own country. The message in code with
1nterlinear translation is entered as
'A2S493' and headed German embassy.
Washington, d. c., April 8, 1916 It
runs as follows:
Telegram from Berlin by secret
roundabout way for Carl Heysen: Con
sent sale Holland 100000 chests lear
trdges) and 200 tons powder. Please get
in touch with Holland commission. Send
er, War Minister Foreign Office in repre-.
sentation.
"'tSigned) Hatzfeldt.'"
Prince Hatzfeldt was an official of the
German embassy
The Hamburg American lines bureau
OF investigation, the committee states.
an innocent pretending agency, was at
the outset the secret service of the Ham.
burg American Steamship company. I'm
der Paul Koenig, its manager, il became
an adjunct of the German diplomatic Sc.
eret service. letter dated July 20,
l9l5, from 20. R." one of its operatives.
to 1000" characterized by the commit
tee as Capt Won Papen, former German
military attache) tells of the payment
OF 500 to an unnamed person, under pe- 3
cullar precautions, after the recipient had
made this statement:
Il intend serious damage to vessels Of Il
the allies leaving ports of the United {
States by placing bombs, which | am
making myself, on board These bombs t
resemble ordinary Jumps of coal and
am planning to have them concealed in
the coal to be laden on steamers of al
lies" =
Money apparently went from German r
sources in the United States through EN-. q
bassy channels 20 Sir Robert Easement. n
the lrishman executed in London. u
Several lines of communication be. \
tween the German diplomatic service and {,
the Irish revolutionary movement are in Ip
dcated in the captured documents" the
statement continues. John Devov of
New York, now editor of the Gaelic
American, violently anti British paper.
was one of the active agents of this con
nection. Significant entries appear here
and there; references to messages from s.
the German embassy at Washington, and S,
the German consulate at New York
mention OF a secret code TO be employed 4,
In communicating with him and of a 'ci. Il
pher dewey; also a notation, the details
OF winch remain undiscovered, concern Il
ing communication re manufacture hand s.
grenades'"
The following reference to Supreme
Court Justice Daniel F. Cohalan of New
York Is contained the committee states. /,
in letter found in the Won Igel papers z,
IN cipher with interlinear translation q
dated New York, April II, 1916, mum.
bered 335l6 and inscribed at the ton :
Very Secret"
Judge Cohaisn requests the transmits =
sion Of the following remarks >
THE revolution in ireland can only
be successful if supported from Germany. y
England will be able to sun
press IL. even though it be only after
lard struggles Therefore, help is neces-
AIRY. This should consist primarily Of y,
'erial attacks in England and diver Pl
ion Of the fleet simultaneously with 81
irish revolution G
Then. If possible. landing Of troops. lCl
rms and ammunition in Ireland and Br
'ossibly some officers from Zepoelins Be