The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-07-18

TORONTO, (By Mail0-One of the most amazing stories ever told to a Toronto audience was an address to the Canadian Press Association by John A. Rathom, editor and publisher of the Providence Journal, few days ago. The address was entitled Some Inside History" and lifted the veil as to the manner that newspaper was able to reveal so many German con- spiracies in the United States.
 The Journal happened upon its other pepers described as a "bug" on course of exposure through having had for ten years before the war what other paerS described as a bug on wireless telegraphy. The paper had maintained two powerful wireless plants at Point Judith and at Block Island. When war broke out, they had decided to listen in" on the mes sages crossing the Atlantic. For five months they kept record of these mes sages, and they then set out to find the codes and make revelations.
 Editor Rathom said in part:
 "A friend of mine, thinking himself very friendly, but in a thing which I objected to, went to Paris and while there purchased a lot of war relics. Among them, was one of the first iron crosses that had been given by the German Emperor to a major of regi- men who died on the field, and whose cross had been taken from him and taken to Paris. It was sold to my friend with a statement as to whom 1t belonged, and my friend sent it to me.
 "I sent it to BernStorf with letter saying that a mark of honorable dis function for a man who had done his duty for his country belongs to his family; l gave the name of the man and the name of the family, and ask ed him to take care of the cross, so that it could be sent back after the war or at some time to the mans peO- pie.
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 "The ambassador tore the note in pieces, threw the note in the face of the man sent, and threw the cross on the floor, saying that after having been defiled by the hands of American dogs, the cross was of no use to any body in Germany. l knew my man was telling the truth, because the man I had in there reported the incident to me exactly the way he did.
 Incidentally I might say that the individual to whom l refer was in the German embassy F months as one of the ambassadors secretaries, and the ambassador had no knowledge that he was not what he pretended to be until the Frederic VIII left New York for Halifax. He said to my man: "Iou had better get aboard or you will lose your boat" and he replied: q am safer on this side"
 "In the famous Huerta case-the attempt of the German government to embroil us with Mexico-an attempt that the recent Zimmerman letter proved beyond any doubt to be true, was already proved by us long time before. Early.in the war my man at the embaSsy-I say my man. you must pardon me for that; mean our man because l am not the Providence Journal-was ordered by Capt Boy-Ed to go to New York and get a suite of six quiet rooms in a hotel where BOy-Ed and his people could meet Huerta. Naturally, though, my man being loyal, he could do nothing else than select the rooms we selected for him, so he went 70 the Manhattan Hotel and got suite of rooms, which we rigged up with the apparatus, and to make assurances doubly sure, 1 got another man to act as chauffeur on the auto that brought Huerta. They had their conference and every word that was uttered-uttered by means of an interpreter, because BOy-Ed did not speak Spanish-was sent down to the department of state the next morn- ing. They had the entire facts be- fore them, and knew everything and several months later when Boy-Ed and Bernstorff were frothing at the mouth and uttering denials, the state depart men had the very words that were ut tered.
 Another incident that is of great interest came when one of our most valued and keenest stenographers in our office, a girl that came to us sev- en years ago from about twenty miles outside of Providence, was given a position in the office of the American
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