The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-07-19
AMAZING STORY or HOW PROVIDENCE
JOURNAL UNCOVERED GERMAN PLOTS
Met Guile With Guile and Spy With Spy and for Almost Three Years
Kept the Government Informed of Teutonic Intrigue
and Treachery in This COMMUNICATION Tells
How II Was Done.

WIN spy hon IL iuu llN III P'A
stor1Ts own household and Its w.
wireless stations listening IN" on Il
German Sayville Zine" to Berlin--h0s
In fact, this one New England newspi
per for almost three years kept IN
United States government Informed q
the German-Austrian plots In Americ
has at last been revealed.
John r. Rathom, In a speech mad
at the convention Of the Canadian
Press association In Toronto, and re
ported in the Editor and Publisher
from the Toronto Star, weaves stor,
Of plot and counter-plot as remarkable
as any that have come from the pen Of
K. Phillips Oppenheim. And Mr.. Rath
ON says that he has safe full OF doc
uments yet unused which he Will pull
out II the situation ever again requires
II.
The story brIstles with dramatic lit
tie scenes almost unbelievable In hum
drum America. There Is Bernstorfr's
confidential secretary at the last mo-
ment at Halifax revealing himself as
an American. There is the pretty ste
nographer who sat on the packing box
with Captain Won Papen and made him
write the evidence Of his own guilt
And through II all runs the treil OF
the green blubber," which Is Mr.. Rath-
om's word for the strange "air holes"
In German brains which make them
overlook the most obvious things. We
see the "green blubber" when Van
Horne. the spy. dressed up like work
man and then rode In a Pullman. Fol
lows, too, the incident of the foolish
little street car tight that cost Doctor
Albert his famous portfolio of treach-
erous secrets.
It's Great Story.
It's great story, and greater still In
its hints of what 1t might be. Here IT
is:
''The Providence Journal" begins
the Editor and Publisher, happened
upon its course OF exposure through
having had for ten years before the
war what other papers described as a
bug on wireless telegraphy. The pa
per had maintained two powerful wire
less plants at Point Judith and ut
Block Island. When war broke out
they had decided to listen in on the
messages crossing the Atlantic. For
five months they kept record of these
messages, and then they set out to find
the codes and make revelations. OF
the material they secured they used
only a fractional part.
zone of the newspapers stenogra-
piers was sent and secured an APP
pointment In the Austrian consulate In
New York. Other of Its workers were
constantly engaged In shadowing Cap
tain Boyd, Captain Won Papen, for
mer Austrian Ambassador Dumba, the
German Ambassador Bernstorff and
other German and Austrian officials.
The two wireless plants increasingly
listened In. two shifts of operators ut
work day and night, on Sayville and
Nantucket, the two wireless stations
which were being used mostly by the
Germans to keep In touch with Berlin,
from where they received instructions
for every detail of their plotting pol
Icy.
"For the United States government
the Brooklyn navy yard had had In
structions TO keep a close watch on
the Sayvllle and Nantucket stations,
but nothing suspicious was ever re-
ported until Mr.. Rathom took some
of the messages which he had received |
IRON his operators TO the state depart
inent II was then learned that the
navy yard operators had been In the
pay of German agents IN America, and
had been told not TO hear too much.
Ingenious Codes Used.
"The codes used by the Germans
were OF the most ingenious nature.
Many OF them pretended to be stock
quotations. and some were even done
up as funeral directions. In some
cases. however. the codes showed evil
fence OF the "green blubber." referred
to by the speaker, as ON one occasion
when Mr. Rathom was able TO 90 TO
President Wilson and show him copies
N eight separate messages sent by the
wireless plant within nine days, all
relating that little Emily" had died
II such and such an Illness. In certain
,art of room. had been buried I'm a
ertain cemetery beside such and such
previously deceased relative. In every
me OF these messages the illness. the
,art OF the room, the name OF the rela-
i've. the cemetery. and so on. varied.
md a clear code was detected in each
" the messages.
Green Blubbcr In Brain.
THE first revelation which Mr..
2athom told illustrated the German
for laundering. II was the
tory OF Werner Horne-the man who ,
vas responsible for the attempt TO
low up the yanceboro bridge. Horne
lad been detected as German spy by =
me of the Journal reporters In New ,
York. In an effort TO disguise himself !
Horne allowed his beard to grow for I
hree days. put on an old suit which he
purchased for three dollars (even this ,
letail was reported) and packed his
PERSONAL effects in an old carpet bag. ,
having carried out these elaborate pre- :
,autions he took passage for the point I
shere the sob" was TO be done, on one I
# the finest and most luxurious trains I
q the United States. AS is well known {
,nur ho tr-oc aauVht When aSEpd lafar 4.