The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-09-24


career in many parts of the world,
and once cabled TO New York news-
paper a picturesque but imaginative
account OF his own death In the far
east under painful and interesting
! conditions. He was born in Dresden,
travelling under American passport
obtained by false representations.
Paper Heavily Subsidized.
Fair Play, that mIsnamed organ of
Teutonic inspiration, appears to have
been subsidized quite disproportion-
ately to it's value, since IL received In
all $4,000 in the course of few
appears as its editor, is known as a
political leader among the Hungari-
ans OF lower Second avenue, in New
York, and has been variously, con-
nected with the fringes Of the publ
cation world. He is supposed himself
to be a Hungarian. His associate in
Fair Play was one ]. p. Bryan. y
Did Not Fiji Bill.
Even with such liberal support
Fair Play did not fill the bill, for in
January, 1915, letter was written by
f. Schroeder, a German newspaper
correspondent in Toxic, to the Ger
man diplomatic Representatives Ia
menting the lack of a genuinely in
fluential- weekly in New York devoted
to Teutonic interests, and suggesting
that one Borsodi might be the right
man to conduct such a publication.
May BE Magazine Editor.
frequent hints of George sylves-
ter Viereck's journalistic activities
appear, and there are few notations
of Pearson: Subject, Press, which
may refer to Parsons Magazine, OF
which the editor, Frank Harris, is
a secret agent named Pearson, who is
the subject of other entries.
Artist ms Lecturer.
The lecture platform is represented
by Ray Beveridge, the California art
list, and sister of Kuehne Beveridge,
Privy Counsellor Albert acknowledge
es receipt of $4,000. from the embassy
to finance Miss Beveridge's lecture
tour. German war pictures were also
to be furnished, though the alleged
scope of the lecture was to be com
work. s"
British Halter Paid.
"Other figures of more vague inn
port drift into light here and there in
investigation reports. Col E. q.
Woodford, an old British hater, ap-
pears to have received sundry sums
of money for services unspecified. The
following letters found in the Won
Igel papers refer to Colonel Wood
New York, April 4, 1915.
Ellis Excellency Mr.. Won Igel.
According to a letter. received here
today the imperial embassy is OF the
should not be paid to Woodford.
please act accordingly and inform
Woodford, If he should show up there
again, that Berlin has received the
letter regarding the sum to be paid
and has besides again been asked by
telegraph whether money should be
paid.
Colonel Woodford appears, how
ever, from the following letter to
have received the sums promised:
New York, April 10, 1916.
/" His Excellency Mr.. Won Igel:
please pay the remainder of $3.50
to Woodford. He is to, receive $oOO
to order (from Berlin).
"'Please have the inclosed receipt
attested. (Signed) Pr
All these, it must be remembered,
are but a small portion of one Ger
but one chamber, as 1t were in an
enormous and complicated maze OF
plotting. other entries
appear too vague to indicate anything
more definite than some connection
with or interest in enterprises alrea-
dy ACCOMPLISHMENTS to the well
land canal conspiracy; correspondence
with DR.. Walter Scheele, accused or
being a bomb manufacturer; referenc-l
es to the Maverick and the Annie /
Larsen, blockade runners; side lights
on Japanese propaganda, Mexican
plots, and Canadian lines of secret in
even hints that ofncerS
high in the military service OF the /
United States were being improperly
used for German military enterprises.
Won IgeI Escapes.
How far the plot goes will prob
ably never be known. The spider, Won /
Igel, had scuttled away to his own
refuge in Germany. His nest is de-
stroyed. But the strands of the web
that he wove may still stretch over
the city or town which you who read
1T has been an open secret that
shipments OF contraband into Ger
many. Here is official confirmation
from the Won Igel records, Wnlch
would seem to indicate q suspicious
md confidential relation between the
Holland commission and the German
oficials accredited to this
Seuntry, or possibly a. belief by the
Germans that they could not success
July get munitions to their own
"The message in code, with inter
tnear translation, is entered as A 249S
md headed German Embassy, WASH
ngton, D. c., April 6, 1916. It runs
Telegram from Berlin by secret
way for Carl Heysen,
consent sale Holland three hundred
thousand chests (cartridges) and two
hundred tons powder. Please get In
ouch with Holland commission. Send
r, War Minister, Foreign ONCE, in
representation.
"While chiefly concerned with mill
ary AFFAIRS in Europe, the represent
,tiYes of a supposedly friendly ma
ion were keeping an interested /
watch on our own activities in that :
inc. A secret code message of April
/, 1915, signed 1922 46729 4691s, ad-
ressed Won IgeI to this effect:
Herewith respectfully send an ex-
ract regarding the troops stationed
n California and the armament of the
cast fortifcations.'