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Ihich still are withheld.
has been traced and added to the secret
koenig and signed by Won Papen.
Therefore Won Papen stands convicted
on the evidence of a report claimed as
an official document by the Germans, of
blow up merchant ships sailing from
the port of New York. The person who
made this report is known to Depart
ment of Justice officials.
destruction was not by any means
the sole interest of koenig's energetic
bureau. 1t concerned itself also with
spy enterprises. To Koenig wrote Otto
West. an American citizen and proprie-
tor of the Hour Glass. at 303 Cor 363)
5th avenue. recommending a relative Of
his who. according to his description.
must be an interesting and somewhat
formidable figure. Mr.. Vests descrip-
ton; somewhat curtailed. follows:
,ofH.a ne is a grandson OF the late ober-
OF the present Militar Oberpfarrer
Strauss Of Potsdam. nephew of the late
Admiral Won Schleinitz, the late Cen
Won Mantey. etc. This gentleman changed
an American name, and none OF his asso-
ciates suspects his German birth or ante
cedents. He is an interna tional Journal
'he- OF great repute, for years at tho head
He has personal reason to be very BIT
ter against England. because two years
ago (this letter appears to have been writ
ten about June l. 1915, which would
make the date referred to the early sum-
mer Of 1879 a certain attack was made
against him over commercial matters in
Great Britain. and it was only by ap-
peaiihg to the United States Department
Of State and a writ of habeas corpus be-
fore the lord chief justice of England
f,,l1x
was In England and France at the out
break of the war. he has access to the
great sources of British and French off,
ciai information. He wants to go across
TO Europe and serve secretly for Ger
many
Completeness of Spy System.
OF the completeness and skill of Ger
manys spy system in this country, a
glimpse is afforded through the volumi-
nous correspondence of a physician of
Allentown. Pa. This physicians special
concern was to ascertain the nature of
the contracts for munitions and arms
upon which the various factories in the
neighborhood were engaged and report
them to the German embassy. His worl,
was such as to earn him Special com
mendatlon, for which he expresses him
self in one Of his letters as duly an
preciative. He was able. he states. .n
my capacity as a physician to establish
the munitions factories situated in this
vicinity" Either he substitutes fancy
for fact or he was able to obtain curl.
ously exact Information in many in
stances. such as the number of foreign
government inspectors: the character.
calioer and quantity of guns ordered by
foreign governments and other yaluab HE
details. OF the Traylor Engineering Com
pany OF Allentown, he writes in April OF
An English inspector is presen. in
the department. and he most rieor-
ousiy tests the work: but I was as
sured that he seemed to be incompe-
tent. inasmuch as he had been reneat
edly duped. Obviously the manaae-
ment of the concern attaches ir-
portance to creating a belief thar all
, pro1ectiles being produced were IN
tended for the United States govern
ment. This. he comments is belied
by the presence Of foreign govern
ment inspectors.
Labor Bureau Under Won Ieel.
Closely related to and to some extent
under the guidance of Won Igel was
the German and Austro- Hungarian la :
Dor information and relief bureau.
with central headquarters at 13G Lib
-'tS e' Nc" i oTh city, and
branches in Cleveland. Detroit, Bridge
port, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Chi
| cago. The head of this enterprise was
Hans Liebau. from whom it took it's
| famillarly accepted name of the .Ii
| bau Employment Agency" During the
| trying days which followed the arrest
| of the Welland canal conspirators ii
was unwaveringly asserted that the
Liebau concern was bona fide en-
plOyment agency and nothing elise
with no object other than to secure
| positions for German. Austrian or Hun
| gar1an workmen seeking employment
| That was for publication only In Won
Igel's papers the truth appears, brought
out by the refusal of the Austro- Hun
| garian embassy to continue its sub
| sides to the bureau
| That the Austro-Hungarian EN- bassv
had taken official cognizance of the
| bureau previously. however. is dis
closed in the letter written by the
! ambassador to the Austro- Hungarian
found in the possession of James F. ].
Archibald by the British authorities
| August 80, 1915. In this letter the
ambassador stated:
"It is my impression that we car
disorganize and hold up for months
ture of munitions in Bethlehem anf
the middle west. which, in the opinion
lof the German military attache is n,
| Importance and amply outweighs the
comparatively small expenditure o,
money involved; but even IL the strikes
Ido not come off. it is probable that we
should extort, under pressure of cir.
cumstances. more favorable conditions
of labor for our poor, downtrodden fel-
t1ow countrymen. So far as German
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