The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1917-09-27

| the sympathetic German-American press
| charged this government with having, on
| the strength of information obtained from
! the seized Won Igel papers, advised the
| British government of the revolutionary
| plot and Easements part therein.
The department OF state and the de-
| partTent OF Justice promptly refuted the
charges When the Won Igel papers
were seized I'm New York the district
| attorney and his assistants busted them
| selves in a search for information TO
| sustain the indictments which they had
| obtained against Won Igel. and over
| looked for the time being the great mass
| OF other evidence which pointed incrlm-
| inatlnglv to others.
Want Cohalan Senator.
Department OF justice officials admit
| that the papers relating to Easement
were sent to Washington the night be-
! fore Easements arrest was reported.
but they were not received by the attor-
ney general until the afternoon OF the
day upon which the British authorities
picked up the Irish leader, and were not
presented TO the state department untl
seven o'clock that evening Meanwhile,
Easement had spent 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
Dewey" referred to In the Won Ige pa
pers New York Supreme Court JUS
tice Daniel f. Cohalan has long been
prominent i'm Irish-American circles.
though he has never been directly iden-
titled with violent action.
That Judge Cohalan. however. is held
in high favor by the pro-German ele-
ment OF this country is evidenced by the
fact that Vlerecks Weekly. in rnaking
selections recently for the most impor-
tant political offices in this country puts
him forth for the position OF United
States senator from New York.
"HeIp Is Necessary"
The communication as translated into
Won Igel's record Is typewriter. line for
line, below a cipher. except for the sig
nature, which remains untranslated from
the original cipher figures. II is dated
New York April H. 1916. numbered 1885,
IS. and inscribed at the top VERY Secret"
New York. April II, 1916.
"Jourge Coholan requests the trans
mission of the following remarks:
THE revolution In Ireland can only
be successful n supported from Ger
many. otherwise England will be able
to suppress IT, 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 feet simultaneously
with Irish revolution Then, II pos
sible. 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
of 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
1912 1857 0230.
ITO His EXcellency
Count Won Bernstorff.
Washington. d. c.
Code Message to Moebius.
Along this same line is a code mes
sage by wireless to Banker Max Moe
bius. 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
latlon was found with the cory of the
message among Won Igel's papers. The
original is a German dispatch which.
being translated into English. sounds
like an innocent business transaction
viz:
National Germanla Insurance con-
tract certainly promised Executor is
evidently satisfied with proposition.
Necessary steps have been taken.
HENRY NEUMAN."
Not so innocent and harmless as 1t |
looks for what the message really |
means is this:
Irish agree to proposition. The nee
essary steps have been taken"
Plots Involve Trouble in Canada.
Canada was also the object of solicit |
tous interest on the part of Germany's |
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 Igel 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.
Information carefully and extensively |
set forth in the secret documents of the |
German officialdom was sometimes wide |
OF the facts. For example, a lengthy
memorandum OF March /. 1916. trans
mitted by the secret agent. Captain |
Boehm, dealing with the Mexican crisis, |
appears to have been largely the work
of some fervid and protective magma
tion.
The memorandum purports to outline
President Wilson's expected message to |
congress 1t predicts that the president
will attribute MeXico's anti American |
activities direct to German money and
incitement: that he will call upon con-
Sress to support him in radical meas
ures tthe prophet even attempts to para
phrase the language to be employed in
the mcssage): that congress will in
dorse the presidents stand. following
which upward of $50 German spies and
agents provocateurs were to be ar
rested and the ambassadors of the CEN
trail powers to receive their passports.
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. | cannot Vouch for
his reliability. but know that he hates
the present administration and fights
il. His informant is former secretary
of the American embassy at Rome now
in Washington"
Captain Boehm himself was too loose
of tongue for the good OF his service.
IL would appear from a report OF the
German military information bureau
dated March 81, 1915
Captain Buehm 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 Germany's secret
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$1,000 was sent to Sir ROGER Easement.