The midland journal., 1917-09-28

the committee quotes numerous let
tiers and extracts from letters seized
by the Department of Justice in April,
1916, in a raid upon the New York
office of Wolfe Won Igel Won Igel, in
carrying on his manifold German
and anti-American activities, the docu-
ments show, was in constant touch
with the German Embassy and with
Count Won Bernstorff, then the German
ambassador to the United States.
"In the form of letters, kilograms,
cash books, cipher codes lists of spies
and other memoranda and records"
the committee says, "were found in
dieations-.in some instances of the
vaguest nature, in others Of the most
damning conclusiveness-tha the Ger
man Imperial Government through it's
representatives in then friendly ma
tiOn was concerned with.
violation of the laws CT the United
States
Destruction Of lives and property
In merchant vessels on the high seas
Irish revolutionary plots against
Great Britain.
"Fomenting ill feeling against the
United States in Mexico.
"Subornation Of American writer's
and lectures.
Financing of propaganda.
Maintenance of a spy system under
the guise Of commercial investigation
bureau.
"Subsidizing of bureau.fo the pur-
pose of stirring up labor troubles in
munition plants.
"The bomb industry and other re-
Hated activities
The committee, of which Secretaries
lansing, Baker and Daniels are men,
bers and George Creel, chairman, has
this to say concerning Hclland:
Holland A Way Station.
SIT has long been an open secret
that Holland is merely way station
FOR shipments of contraband into Ger
many. Here is official confirmation
from the Won Igel records which
would seem to indicate suspicious
and confidential relation between the
Holland Commission and the German
diplomatic officials accredited to this
country, or possibly a belief by the
Germans that they could not success.
fully get the munitions to their owr
country. The message in code with in.
terlinear translation is entered as
"A 2z93' and headed German Embassy,
Washington, D. c., April 6, 1876 II
runs as follows:
Telegram from Berlin by secret
roundabout way for Carl Heysen: Con-
sent sale Holland 100000 chests Gear
tridges) and 200 tons powder. Please
get in touch with Holland Commits
sion. Sender, War Minister, Foreign
Office, in representation.
(Signed) "'HATZFELDT.'
Prince Hatzfeldt was an official O.
The German Embassy.
The Hamburg American Lines bu.
Teau Of investigation, the committee
states, an innocent pretending agency.
was at the outset the secret service of i,
Ese Hamburg-American Steamship
Gtmpany. Under Paul Koenig, its
E'anager, it became an adjunct of the
German diplomatic secret service. A
tier dated July 20, 1915 from 80. R.
one of its operatives, to 1900" (char-
Gctsrized by the committee as Captain
won Papen, former German military
attache), tells of the payment Of $3.50
tC an unnamed person, under peculiar
precautions after the recipient had
made this statement:
II intend to cause serious damage
to vessels of the Allies leaving ports
of the United States by placing
bombs, which / am making myself,
on board, These bombs resemble or
dinary Jumps Of coal, and 1 am plan
ming to have them concealed in the
gal 10 be laden on steamers Of the
allies
Financing Irish Revolt.
osSney apparently went from Ger
Eaam sources in the United States
Through embassy channels to Sir
Roger Easement, the Irishman exc
cuted In London.
Several lines of communication
between the German diplomatic serv-
Zee and the Irish revolutionary move.
nent are indicated in the captured
documents" the statement continues.
John Dewey, of New York, now editor
~ the Gaelic American, violently
sati-British paper, was one of the ac-
rive agents OF this connection. Sig
nifcant entries appear here and there;
references to messages from the. Ger
man Embassy at Washington and the
German consulate at New York; men,
tlcn Of secret code to be employed in
communicating with him and cipher
Sxeecy'; also a notation, the details of
which remain undiscovered, concern
xHg communication remanufacture
bead-grenades."
The following reference to Supreme
Court Justice Daniel F. Cohalan, of