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been written about June 1. 1915, which
would make the date referred to the
early summer of 1879 a certain at
tack was made against him over conf
mercial matters in Great Britain and
it was only by appealing to the United
States department of state and writ
of habeas corpus before the lord chief
justice of England that he escaped
successfully. He was in Eng
land and France at the outbreak of
the war; he has access to the great
sources of British and French Off
cial information. He wants to go
across to Europe and serve secretly
for Germany"
OF the completeness and skill of
Germany's spy system in this country.
a glimpse is afforded through the
voluminous correspondence of DR..
Theo Otto, of Allentown, Pa. DR..
Otto's special concern was to ascer-
tain 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 work was such
as to earn him special commentator,
for which he expresses himself in one
of mis- letters as duly appreciative.
He was able, he states, ''in my capa-
city as a physician to establish re-
lations with officials of almost all of
the munitions factories situated in
this vicinity" Either DR.. Otto sub
stitutes fancy for fact or he was able
to obtain curiously exact information
in many instances, such as the num-
Der of foreign government inspectors;
the character, caliber and quantity of
guns ordered by foreign governments;
and other valuable details. OF the
Traylor Engineering Co., of Allen
town, he writes in April of last year:
IAN English inspector is present in
the department. and he most rigor-
ously tests the work; but / was as
sured that he seemed to be incompe-
tent, inasmuch as he had been repeat
edly duped. Obviously the manage
ment of the concern attaches impor-
lance to creating belief that all pro-
jectiles being produced were intended
for the United States government"
This, he comments, is belied by the
presence of foreign government in
spectors.
In these activities there was, of
course, nothing illegal. DR.. Otto is
still practicing his profession in AL
lentown. He clans to be an Ameri-
can citizen. though his claim is not
clear. and declares himself thorough
ly loyal to this country.
Closely related to and to some ex-
tent under the guidance of Won Igel
was the German and Austro-Hunga-
rian labor information and relief bu-
reau, with central headquarters at
136 Liberty street. New York City,
and branches in Cleveland, Detroit,
Bridgeport, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia,
and Chicago The head of this en-
terprise was Hans Liebeu, from whom
it took its Familiarity accepted name
of the "Iiebau Employment Agency"
During the trying days which followed
the arrest of the Welland canal con-
spirators it was unwaveringly assert
ed that the Liebau concern was
bona fide employment agency and
nothing else, with no object other
than to secure positions for German,
Austrian, or Hungarian workmen
seeking employment That was for
publication only. In Won IgePs pa
pers the truth appears, brought out
by the refusal of the Austro-Hunga-
rian embassy to confine its subsidies
to the bureau
That the Austro-Hungarian embas-
sy had taken official cogniZance of
the bureau previously, however, is
disclosed in the letter written by the
ambassador to the Austro-Hungarian
minister for foreign affairs which was
found in the possession of James F. ].
Archibald by the British authorities
August 30, 1915. In this letter the
ambassador stated:
at is my impression that we can
disorganize and hold up for months,
if not entirely prevent. the manufac-
ture of munitions in Bethlehem and
the middle west, which, in the opinion
of the German military attache, is of
Importance and amply outweighs the
comparatively small expenditure of
money involved; but even if the
strikes do not come off it is probable
that we should extort, under pressure
of circumstances, more favorable con-
ditions of labor for our poor, down.
trodden fellow countrymen. So far as
German workmen are found in the
skilled hands, means of leaving will
be provided Immediately for them.
Besides this, a private German EN-
ployment office has been established
which provides employment for per-
sons who have voluntarily given up
their places and it is already working
we'll We shall also join in and the
widest support is assured u.s."
The following representatives on be-
half OF the bureaus efficiency were
made, under date of March "a, 1916,