The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-09-23

which is interesting chiefly as show
ing the code method of important
communications practiced by the Ger
man official plotters in this country.
The code translation was found with
the copy of the message among you
Igel's papers. The original is a Ger
man dispatch which, being translated
into English, sounds like an innocent
business transaction, viz:
National Germania Insurance con-
tract certainly promised. Executor is
evidently satisfied with proposition.
Necessary steps have been taken.
Henry Neuman."
Not so innocent and harmless as it
looks, for what the message really
means is this:
Irish agree to proposition. The
necessary steps have been taken"
Canade was also the object of
solicitous interest on the part of Ger
many's representatives in America, as
was startlingly proven in the plot to
blow up the Welland Canal. Another
lesser but not unpromising enterprise
against Canada was foregone by Won
1gel because the volunteer plotter was
too old, though he has the best of
good WILL" and also because of his
known connection with the Gaelic
American and the Indian Revolution
lists. Such is the Endorsement upon
the letter, signed only "X", who TO-
menting disorders in Quebec.
"As honorary president of the first
Independence Club started at Mont
real about the time of the Boer War,
and of which the Hon. Honore Mer-
cier, now minister of colonization in
the government of the Province of
Quebec, was one of the vicepresidents
and later president. I am we'll known
among the members and journalists
in that organization. There is
now in the place of the Independence
Club a secret society based upon its
principles, aiming at the total separa-
ton of Canada from the British En-
pire. 1t includes all tlA for
mer members of the independence
Club and men high in Canadian polit
zeal life. The adherents are for the
most part French and Irish Canad-
ians. l am in daily connec-
ton with one of the leading men in
the separation movement, Hon. j.
Hall Kelly, who is a member of the
Legislative Council of the Province
of Quebec and also a member of the
Government"
Information carefully and extern
sively set forth in the secret docu-
ments of the German officialdom was
sometimes wide of the facts. For ex-
ample, a lengthy memorandum of
March 1, 1916, transmitted by the
secret agent, Capt. Boehm, dealing
have been largely the work of some
fervid and protective imagination.
The memorandum purports to outline
President Wilson's expected message
to Congress. 1t predicts that the
President will attribute Mexico's anti
American activities direct to German
money and Indictment; that he will
call upon Congress to support him in
radical measures (the prophet even
attempts to paraphrase the language
to be employed in the message); that
Congress will indorse the Presidents
stand, following which upward of $50
German spies and agents provoca-
tours were to be arrested and the am
baesadors of the central powers to
receive their passports.
For all this, Capt, Boehm's author
i.y is thus indicated over his own sig
nature:
'The foregoing memorandum was
lust given to me by an acquaintance
returning from Washington. The &C
uuaintance' IS skillful journalist
who has good connections. l can not
vouch for his reliability, but l know
that he hates the present administra-
ton and fights it. His informant is
a former secretary of the American
embassy at Rome now in Washing
ton"
Capt. Boehm himself was too loose
of tongue for the good of his service,
it would appear from report of the
German military information bureau
dated March 81, 1916.
"Capt Boehm decided to leave after
reports received here were submitted