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man to act as chauffeur on the aut
A:t brought Huerta. They had
their conference, and at the conclu-
sion of that conference every word
that was uttered-uttered through
an interpreter, because BOyEd did
not speak Spanish-was sent down
to the Department Of State the next
morning. They had The entire facts
before them. and knew everything,
and for several months later, when
Boy-Ed and BernstorH were frothing
at the mouth and uttering denials.
The State Department had the very
words that We're uttered.
Another incident" he continued.
that is of great interest. came when
one of our most valued and keenest
StenOgrapherS in our own office, Il
girl that came to us seven years ago
from about twenty miles outside OF
Providence. was given a position in
he office of the Austrian Consul-Gen-
eral in New York city. She had ney-
CT been in New York before, but she
was head of a number of people in
competition. and the man choosing
the stenographer they wanted, cap
able girl able to do his work and TO
formed that she was the party to
choose-by other friends of ours
One day about five or six weeks after
she got there she informed us that
II great packing case was being filled
up with propag ganda documents and
with bills of expense in connection
with explosions in munition plants,
and other vital and valuable things.
and was to be shipped off the follow
ing week right straight to England
on a Swedish ship and from there to
Germany.
The only thing we could possibly
do was to identify the package. One
day when they were about to close
the package up this girl, under in
StructiOnS-and | may say inciden-
tally she is now back at work getting
her SIG a week-Sat on this box eat
ing her lunch. Nearly everybody
else had gone. but Won Papen, rath-
er debonair, and fond of ladies', wan
dered in and sat on the packing box
and asked if he could share her
lunch with her. She said certainly,
and while they were sharing the
sandwiches he made some sentimen-
tai advances and she in rather d
dreamy way took out a large red
pencil and drew two big red hearts
on this packing case 1t was Capt.
Won Papen himself who put the ar
row through them. And, ladies and
gentlemen, when the ship Austrias
II. reached Falmouth they picked
that package out of the hold from
about hundred and fifty others and
i - - Ii
hearts. And yet they say there are
no brilliant people but the Germans.
Another incident. the loss of a
portfolio belonging to DR.. Reinrich
Albert. an Austrian official, which
contained papers relating to Ambas-
sador Dumba's efforts to incite labor
troubles in the United States, created
quite stir among the diplomats. Mr..
Rathom told of how Journal repor
ter got the papers as the result OF
which Dumba was sent back to Aus
tria by the President.
"One of the Journal reporters had
been shadowing DR.. Albert in New
York, but for months nothing seem
ed wrong. One day he went into a
loather-g goods store, where he order
ed a portfolio and gave the salesman
instructions to put his initials on II.
The reporter, as soon as Albert had
gone out, walked up to the salesman
and ordered another portfolio Of the
same kind, but with no initials, say
ing he would rather first see how the
other gentleman's initials looked.
When he come back and saw the ini
tials he said he didn't like them and
departed TO go to another shop and
have the same initials put on his
portfolio His work was becoming
less tiresome and less fruitless than
it mad been. A day or so later AL
bert, carrying his new portfolio, was
followed from the front Of his apart
ments by the Journal man. Albert
boarded an elevated train. He plac-
ed his bag containing papers on the
seat beside him. Suddenly he was
stirred by a fight in the front of the
car. AS he stood up to see what the
trouble was, as did nearly everybody
else in the car, the portfolios were
changed. This happened on a Sat
urday morning. Albert, in a state
ment later, said that he discovered
the trick the same day, but we know
for a fact that he did not discover
the difference until Monday morn
ing. Needless to say the men who
were fighting on the street car were
also in the employ of the Journal"
1t was through the Journal, Mr..
Rattom said, that a great quantity
of important papers were secured
from Wolf Won Ingel. These papers
revealed the Easement plot for the
Irish uprising When the papers
were taken, Mr. Rathom said, in il
lustrating his point that there is a
certain amount of stupidity in ali
German diplomatists, Won Bernstorff
made application to the State Depart
ment to have them returned.