Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-07-20

the rarity to choose-by other friends
Of orrs. One day about five or six
weeks after she got there she Informed
US that great packing case was being
| filled up with propaganda documents
and with bills of expense In connec
ton with explosions in munition plant
and other vital and valuable things.
and was to be shipped off the follow
Ing week right straight to England on
Swedish ship and from there to Ger
many.
Won Papen Flirts.
'The only thing we could possibly do
was to identify the package. One dag
when they were about TO close the
package up this girl, under instruc-
tions-and l may say incidentally che
Is now back at work getting her $16
week-sat on this box eating her lunch.
Nearly everybody else had gone, but
Won PapeD, rather debonair and fond
of ladies, wandered 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 seati
mental advances and she In rather
dreamy way took out a large red pencil
and drew two big red hearts on this
packing case. 1t was Captain Won Pa
pen himself who put an arrow through
them. And, ladies and gentlemen,
when the ship Austrias II reached Fall
mouth they picked that package out of
the hold from about hundred and tif-
ty others and identified ii by the two
big red hearts. And yet they say there
are no brilliant people but the Ger
mans
Another incident, the loss of port
folio belonging TO DR.. Heinrich Albert,
an Austrian official, which contained
papers relating to Ambassador Dunn
ba's efforts to incite labor troubles In
the United States, created quite stir
among the diplomats Mr.. Rathom told
of how a Journal reporter got the pa
pers as the result of which Dumba was
sent back to Austria by the president
Zone of the Journal reporters had
been shadowing Doctor Albert in New
York, but for months nothing seemed
wrong One day he went into a leather
goods store, where he ordered a port
folio and gave the salesman instruc-
tons to put his initials on II. The re-
porter, as soon as Albert had gone out.
walked up to the salesman and ordered
another portfolio of the same kind, but
with no initials, saying he would
rather first see how the other gentle
mans initials looked. When he came
back and saw the initials he said he
didn't like them and departed to go to
another shop and have the same ini-
tails put on his portfolio. His work
was becoming less tiresOme and less
fruitiess than It had been.
"A day or two later Albert, carry
ing the new portfolio, was followed
from the front of his apartments by |
the Journal man. Albert boarded an
train. He placed his bag con- |
tanning papers on the seat beside him. |
Suddenly he was stirred by 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 hap
pened on Saturday morning. Albert,
In statement later, said that he dis
covered the trick the same day, but
we know for q fact that he did not dis
cover the difference until Monday
Needless to say, the men who
were fighting on the street car were
also in the employ Of the Journal
at was through the Journal. Mr..
Rathom said, that a great quantity OF
Important papers were secured from
Wolf Won Igel. These papers revealed
he Easement plot for the Irish upris-
ng. When the papers were taken, Mr..
aathom said, Ia illustrating his point
hat there is a certain amount of stu
,idity in all German diplomatists. Won
Sernstorff made application to the
tate department TO have them re-
urned He was told that any paper he
ould identify would be returned to
i'm. and then realized how he had
ommitted himself in asking that the
apers be returned.
Asked Journal Suppression.
Three days before Bernstorff was
rdered to return to Germany, Mr..
.athom declared, he demanded that
he American government suppress the
rovidence Journal.
"'Eyery statement that we have
Iade In regard TO GERMAN plots in the
nited States has been proven to be
true declared Mr.. Rathom.
or the first nine or ten months no one
alieved what we were saying. We t
ere shouting against the wind. The v
smissal of Doctor Dumba was the |
st result of our months of effort. h
we have not printed one-fiftieth of h
hat we secured, but We were very
adj when events turned. to turn the Il
" on the safe in which 1t is deposit n
and forget the balance. because the Ii
Ork we tried to do has been accom- e
lshed.'