Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-07-13

of ours. 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 "a nunition plants
| and other vital and valuable things,
and was to be shipped of the follow
ing week right straight to England on
a Swedish ship and from there 90 Ger
many.
Won Papen Flirts.
1.-THE only thing we could possibly do
was to Identify the package. One day
when they were about to close the
package up this girl. under instruc-
tions-and l may say incidentally she
| is now back at,work geIting her SIC
week-sat on this box eating her lunch.
| Nearly everybody else had gone, but
| Won Papen, 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 male some sentl-
mental advances and she In rather u
dreamy way took out large red pencil
and drew two big red hearts on this
| packing case. 1t was Captain Won Pa
| pen himself who put al arrow through
them. And, ladies aad gentlemen,
when the ship Austrias II reached Fall
mouth they picked that package out OF
the hold from about a hundred and fif-
ty others and identified it 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 a stir
among the diplomats. Mr.. Rathom told
of how 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 Tor months nSthing seemed
wrong. One day he went into q leather
goods store, where he ordered a port
folio and gave the SALESMAN instruc-
lions to put his initials IN it. 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, So yiag 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 mi
tials put on his portfolio. His work
was becoming less tireEome and less
fruitless than it had been.
ga 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
elevated train. He placed his bag con-
tanning papers on the seat beside him.
Suddenly he was stirred by a 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 a Saturday morning. Albert,
in a statement later, SAID that he dis
covered the trick the game day, but
we know for fact that he did not dis
cover the difference until Monday
morning. 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
the Easement plot for the Irish upris-
ing. When the papers were taken, Mr.
Rathom said, In illustrating his point !
that there is u certain amount of stu !
pidity in all German diplOmatists, Won |
Bernstorff made application to the |
state department to have them re- |
turned. He was told that any paper he |
could identify would be returned to !
him. and then realized how he had |
committed himself In asking that the |
papers be returned.
Asked Journal Suppression.
"'Three days before Bernstorfr was
ordered to return to Germany, Mr.. |
Rathom declared, he demanded that |
the American government suppress the
Providence journal.
Every statement that we have
made in regard to German plots In the |
United States has been proven to be |
positively true declared Mr.. Rathom.
For the first nine or ten months no one |
believed what we were saying. We |
were shouting against the wind. The
dismissal of Doctor Dumba was the |
first result of our months of effort.
awe have not printed one-fftieth OF
what we secured, but we were very |
glad. when events turned, to turn the
key on tie safe in which it is deposit
ed and forget the balance, because the |