Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-10-02

1 ao0 SRc4it several hours In an
Irish prison.
1t is not improbable that the signature
| at the bottom of the extraordinary
message which follows is in the cipher
| Devoy'' referred to in the Won Igel pa
pers New York Supreme Court Jus
ice Daniel F. Cohalan has long been
| prominent in Irish-American circles.
though he has never been directly iden-
| tilted with violent action.
Inat Judge Cohalan, however, is held
IN high favor by the pro-German ele-
ment OF this country is evidenced by the
tact that Viereck's Weekly in making
selections recently for the most impor-
tant political offices in this country. puts
MIN forth for the position of United
states senator from New York.
"Help Is Necessary"
The communication as translated into
Won 1gefs record is typewriter, line for
me, below cipher, except for the sig
nature, which remains untranslated from
the original cipher figures 1t is dated
new York, April II. 1916 numbered 1885,
TO- anu inscribed at the top Very Secret"
New York. April II, 1916
"Jourge Coholan requests the trans
mission of the following remarks:
Inc revolution in Ireland can only
De successful If supported from Ger
many. otherwise England will be able
10 suppress 1t. even though IL be only
after hard struggles Therefore help is
necessary. This should consist pri-
marily OF aerial attacks in England and
a diversion of the fleet simultaneously
with Irish revolution. Then. if nos
slble, a landing of troops arms, and
ammunition in Ireland and possibly
some officers from Zeppelins. This
would enable the Irish ports to be closed
against England and the establishment
or stations for submarines on the Irish
coast and the cutting off of the supply
OF food for England The services of
the revolution may therefore decide the
war.
He asks that telegram to this eff
feet be sent to Berlin.
1912 1857 O23O
To His EXcellency
Count Won Bernstorff
Washington, D. c."
Code Message to Moebfus.
Along this same line is a code mes
sage by wireless to Banker Max Moe
bus. Oberwalstrasse, Berlin, which is
interesting chiefly as showing the code
method of important communications
practiced by the German official plot
tiers in this country The code trans
lation was found with the copy of the
message among Won IgePs papers. The
original is a German dispatch which
being translated into English sounds
like an innocent business transaction
viz:
National Germania Insurance con-
tract certainly promised. Executor is
evidently satisfied with proposition.
Necessary steps have been taken.
HENRY NEUMAN."
Not so innocent and harmless as IT
looks, for what the message really
means is this:
Irish agree to proposition. The nee
essary steps have been taken"
Ia
Canada was also the object of solicit
tous interest on the part of Germany's
representatives in America, as was
startlingly proven in the plot to blow
up the Welland canal. Another lesser
but not unpromising enterprise against
Canada was foregone by Won IgeI be-
cause the volunteer plotter was too old.
though he has the best of good will'
and also because of his known connec-
ton with the Gaelic American and the
Indian reVolutionists. Such is the in
dorsement upon the letter, signed only
''X," WHO thus sets forth his qualifca-
tons for fomenting disorders in Que
bee:
"As honorary president of the first
Independence club started at Montreal
about the time of the Boer war, and of
which Hon. Honore MERCER now minis
ter of colonization in the government
of the province of Quebec was one of
the vice presidents and later president
l am well known among the members
and journalists in that organization
There is now in the place of the
Independence club a secret society
based upon its principles aiming at the !
British empire. 1t includes all |
the former members of the Independ- |
ence club and men high in Canadian po-
litical life. The adherents are for the |
most part French and Irish Canadians. |
. 1 am in daily connection with |
one of the leading men in the separa-
ton movement, Hon. j. Hall Kelly, |
who is a member of the legislative |
council of the province of Quebec and |
also a member of the government"
Captain Boehm Leaves.
For all this, Captain Boehm's author
ity is thus indicated over his own sig
nature:
THE following memorandum was just
given to me by an acquaintance return
ing from Washington. The 'acquaint-
ance' is a skillful journalist who has
good connections. l cannot vouch for
his reliability, but know that he hates
the present administration and fights
It. His informant is a former secretary
of the American embassy at Rome now
in Washington"
of tongue for the good of his service,
it would appear from a report of the
German military information bureau
dated March 81, 1916.
Captain Boehm decided to leave after
reports received here were submitted to
him to the effect that members of the
press were informed as to his personality
and the purpose of his being here. Too
great confidence in the members of the
American Truth society was prob
ably the cause of his becoming quickly
known here"
So the notorious American Truth soci-
ETY., which so strenuously denied Its pro-
German associations, figures as indi-
rectly linked up with Germanys secret
This society is still ex-
tant. and jeremiah A. O'Leary, its NOV
ing spirit. is now the editor of Bull, re-
Gently shut out of the mails for publish
ing seditious matter.
Enter Viereck: George Sylvester.
Many inventors, some of them obvious
" cranks are represented either by cor
or notation as having plans
involving the use of sundry devices of
destruction One entry of the sort mer-
It's special attention because of the no
toriety of the individual involved. Here
t is. translated from the German record
IF correspondence:
June Is, 1916 Sender. G. S.. Viereck,
Contents, inquiry as to bombs;2 supply
offer. Told to send further Details
POSSIBLY the IuTIneT ueldllS are luu'- |
,ated in another entry of four months
ater
Sender, viereck. Contents. offer of
oicric acid
Picric acid is a constituent of many
nigh explosives. Mr.. Viereck is some
hing of a high explosive himself, having
been editor of the virulently pro-German
weekly Fatherland of New York, now
changed in title Cbut not in purpose) to
'Viereck's Weekly" !
Just what interest DR.. L. A. Dessar of
y Broad street, New York city, haG in ,
3erman aerial warfare is matter for ,,
speculation. !
In the Won Igel archives appears a
etter from R. L. Scoville of Sewickley.
pa. and New York city urging the mer-
is of the Semple aerogrenade. Doctor ,
Dessar evidently forwarded the letter
where he thought it would do the most !
good, viz, to Won Igel.
The following curious entry appears IN
Won IgeTs records:
"Pure War Expenses 7
Edward Emerson ........................$1,OO 900 s