The courier-index., 1917-12-14

janftor and thus get access to its
files. About a month after this let
err had been received by the steam
ship office man did appear and
apply. for employment as a janitor
He was subjected to a third degree
examination and then falteringly ad-
mitted that he had been sent by the
Providence Journal
For two days thereafter the offices
of the steamship company were jubi-
liant and they wrote an elaborate re-
port of their triumph to the embassy
at Washington, copy of which is
now in Mr.. Rathom's possession
Some weeks later the young man
with the German name at Lima, who
had given the welcome tip, wrote
rather plaintively that he had not
heard from the steamship company,
and so felt that his information had
been worthless, though he had done
his best. He said he was coming to
New York to seek his fortune and
asked for clerical position by which
he might support himself for a few
months while looking about. He was
assured-by telegraph he could
have job. 1t was this young man
from Lima" who went through the
files of the company at his leisure
and supplied the Providence Journal
with mass of data not only fixing
the responsibility of the Welland
canal plot but giving much other
valuable information, including proofs
of the activities of Captain Hans
Tauscher, the agent in this country
of the Krupps and the husband of
Madam Gadski
In addition to these things. it is
stated of John r. Rathom that "he
is the man who discovered and re-
vealed the plot to restore Huerta
to German-made Dictatorship in
Mexico. He is the man who proved
that the Lusitania warning was sent
out by the German embassy on or
ders direct from Berlin. He is the
man who exposed William Jennings
Bryan's peace at any price inter
view with Dumba. He is the man
who sent Consul-General Bopp, at
San Francisco. to prison for two
years for conspiracy He is the man
who warned the government that the
Canadian parliament building at OF
tawa was to be fired. three weeks
before it was burned by German
agents"
The facsimile of Won Papen
memorandum of accounts is given
showing items amounting to $3.50
of expenditure in effort to unearth
information about Rathom's past car
eer that would fnjure his standing
and credibility.
The need for precautions against
plotting within the United States is |
not ended. the Worlds Work article
declares. Today in he offices of
the Providence Journal" it says.
lis card index of the names OF
1000 people. hundreds of them
American citizens, dozens of them
honored leaders in professional and
public life, who are known still to
be working the kaiser's will in every
important city in the United States.
These traitors are, many of them,
unsupported by neignbors and friends
who respect and trust them. The
government has been in formed of
their activities. The Journal is still
following their movements, and ev-
cry day checkmates some of them.
Thus, privately, the Journal is doing
great patriotic service. Publicly. it
is attempting to- -areuse%s-the loyal
citizens of the country to the COM
mon. danger. and to show them from
its experience, how to combat this
most deadly and insidious peril
Mr.. Rathom was born in Melbourne
Australia, of English parentage, and
was educated there and at Harrow
England. At eighteen he began news
paper work as correspondent of
Australian papers, reporting the mill
tary operations in the Soudan long
before the days OF Kitchener and
Obdurman. Later his wanderings
took him to Hong Kong where he had
been brought up as child and had
learned to speak the Chinese Ian
guage. Then he crossed the Pacific
and did important work in turn for
the Portland Oregonian and the San
Francisco Chronicle. He covered the
Behring sea controversy with Great
Britain as the Pacific coast cores
pendent of the New York Herald,