The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-06

THE HAYS FREE PRESS
they should have endeavored to shout
der upon the American government the
| responsibility for the arrest of Easement
| The Gaeiic-American, DeyOy's paper and
/ the sympathetic German-American press
| charged this government with having, on
! the strength Of Information obtained from
| the seized Won Igel papers, advised the
| British government of the revolutionary
plot and Easements part therein
| The department of state and the de-
| charges When the Won Igel papers
were seized in New York the district
/ attorney and his assistants busted them
selves in a search for Information to
/ obtained against Won Igel, and over
| looked for the time being the great mass
/ OF other evidence which pointed incrim-
! inatingly to others
Want CohaIan Senator.
Department OF justice officials admit
that the papers relating to Easement
were sent to Washington the night be-
fore Easements arrest was reported
| but they were not received by the attor-
i ney general until the afternoon of the
picked up the Irish leader. and were not
/ presented TO the state department until
| seven o'clock that evening. Meanwhile
| Easement had spent several hours in an
| Irish prison
| 1t is not improbable that the signature
| at the bottom of the extraordinary
message which follows is in the cipher
| Dewey referred to in the Won IgeI pa
| pers. New York Supreme Court Jus
| tice Daniel F. Cohalan has long been
| prominent in Irish-American circles.
| though ne has never been directly fden-
| tilted with violent action
| That Judge Cohalan however. is held
in high favor by the pro-German eIe-
| ment Of this country is evidenced by the
| fact that Viereck's Weekly in making
| selections recently for the most impor-
tant political offices in this country. puts
| him forth for the position of United
| States senator from New York.
"HeIp Is Necessary"
| The communication translated into
| Won IgePs record is typewriter, line for
| line, below a cipher, except for the sig
/ nature. which remains untranslated from
/ the original cipher figures 1t is dated
| New York. April II. 1916. numbered 3S5-
| is. and inscribed at the top Very Secret"
| New York. April II. 1916
| Jourge COholan requests the trans
mission of the following remarks:
| The revolution in Ireland can only
be successful If supported from Ger
! many. otherwise England will be able
| to suppress 1T. even though it be only
| after hard struggles. Therefore help is
| necessary This should consist pri-
| marily Of aerial attacks in England and
| a diversion of the fleet simultaneously
| with Irish revolution Then. If DOS
| sible. a landing of troops. arms and
| ammunition in Ireland and possibly
some officers from ZeppeIins. This
would enable the Irish ports to be closed
| against England and the tablishment
/ Of stations for submarines on the Irish
| coast and the cutting of of the supply
/ of food for England The services of
! the revolution may therefore decide the
war
He asks that telegram to this eff
1882 SIs7 e o2sO.
ITO His Excellency
| Count Won BernstorR
Washington. D. c."
Code Message to Moebius.
| Along this same line is q code mes
| sage by wireless to Banker Max Moe
| bus. Oberwalstrasse. Berlin which is
| interesting chiefly as showing the code
/ method Of important communications
! practiced by the German official plot
| ters in this country The code trans
| lation was found with the copy of the
| message among Won IgeI's papers. The
/ original is a German 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 1t
| looks. for what the message really
/ means is this:
Irish agree to proposition The nee
essary steps have been taken"
Plots Involve Trouble In Canada.
Canada was also the object of solicit
| tous interest on the part of Germany'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 IgeI be-
| cause the volunteer pIotter was too old
| though he has the best of good wiII"'
and also because of his known connec-
/ ton with the Gaelic-American and the
| Indian revolutionists-
Information carefully and extensively
| set forth in the secret documents of the
| German officiaIdom was sometimes wide
| Of the facts. For example. a lengthy
| memorandum of March l. 1916 trans
mitted by the secret agent. Captain
| Boehm. dealing with the Mexican crisis.
appears to have been largely the work
| of some feryid and protective magma
| ton
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 con-
gress to support him in radical meas
| ures (the prophet even attempts to para
| phrase the language to be employed in
| the message); that congress will in
| dOrse the presidents stand. following
which upward OF $50 German spies and
agents pTovocateurs were to be ar
| rested and the ambassadors of the CEN
| trail powers to receive their passports.
Captain Boehm Leaves.
For all this. Captain Boehm's author
| ity is thus indicated over his own sig
| nature:
The following memorandum was Just
given to me by an acquaintance return
| ing from Washington The tacQuaint-
ance' is a skillfuI journalist who has
| good connections I cannot vouch for
| his reliability. but I know that he hates
| the present Administered ton and fights
| it His informant Is a former secretary
| of the American embassy at Rome now
/ in Washington"
Captain Boehm himself was too loose
! of tongue for the good of his service.
/ it would appear from a report of the
| German military information bureau
/ dated March 81. 1916
Captain Boehm decided to leave after
| reports received here were submitted to
| him to the effect that members Of the
press were informed as to his personality
| and the purpose of his being here Too
great confidence in the members Of the
American Truth society was prob
ably the cause of his becoming quickly