The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1917-09-28
OFFICIAL EXPOSE OF ANTLAMER.
ICAN ACTIVITIES IN RECORDS
SEIZED.
IN LEAGUE WITH BERhST0RFF
Berlin Agent Was in Constant Touch
with German Embassy Officials and
the Ambassador - Statement De-
clares Holland TO BE Way Station.

lnef disclosures or lar reaching Gel
man propaganda intrigucs and plot
in this country prior to the diplomati
break with Germany were made toda,
by the committee on public informa
ton.
In a bulletin styled Official ox
pose" the committee quotes numcr
Gus letters and extracts from letter
seized by the department Of Justice II
April. 1916, in a raid upon the New
York office of Wolfe Won Igel VoI
lgel in starting on his manifold Ger
man and anti-Amercian activities. the
documents show. was in constan
touch with the German embassy ant
with Count Won Bernstorn, German
ambassador to the United States.
Extensive in It's scope.
"ln the form Of letters. telegrams
notations. checks, receipts registers
cash books. cipher codes. lists Of spies
and other memoranda and records .
the committee says, were found in
dications-in some instances Of the
vaguest nature in others OF the most
damaging cOnclusiveness - that the
German imperial government, through
Its representatives. in a then friendly
nation, was concerned with:
Destruction Of lives and prop
erty in merchant vessels on the
high seas
Irish revolutionary plots
against Great Britain
"Formenting i'll feeling against
the United States In Mexico.
'Subornation of American
writers and lecturers
Financing OF propaganda.
Maintenance Of a spy system
under the guise OF a commercial
investigation bureau.
Substituting of bureau for the
purpose OF stirring up labor trou.
bles in munitions plants.
"The bomb industry and other
related activities"
How They Size Up Holland.
The committee. OF which Secretaries
Lansing, Baker and Dapiels are mem
bers and George Creel chairman, has
this to say concerning Holland:
1T has been an open secret that
Holland is merely n way station for
shipments of contraband into Ger
many. Here is official confirmation
from the Won Igel records which
would seem to indicate a suspicious
and. confidential relation between the
Holland commission and the German
diplomatic officials accredited TO this
country, or possibly a belief by the
Germans that they could not success.
fully get the munitions to their own
country. The message IN code with
interlinear translation is entered as
A2493 and headed German embassy
Washington. d. c., April 6. 1916 II
runs as follows:
Telegram from Berlin by secret
roundabout way for Carl Heysen. Con
sent sale Holland three hundred thou.
sand chests (cartridges) and two hun.
dred tons powder Please get In touch
with Holland commission. Sender
war minister. foreign office. In repre-.
sentation.
Hatzfeldt.
Prince Hatzfeldt was an official OF
the German embassy.
Plot to Wreck Vessels.
The Hamburg-American lines bu.
feau OF investigation, the committee
states, an innocent pretending
agency" was at the outset the secret
service OF the Hamburg.American
steamship company. Under paul
koenig. its manager. IL became an ad.
1unct OF the German diplomatic secret
service. A letter dated July 90 1915
from 20. r." one OF its operatives. 10
1000 characterized by the commit.
Tee and Capt. Won Papen, former Ger.
man military attache). tells of the nav.
ment OF $3.50 to an unnamed person
under peculiar precautions after the
recipient had made this statement:
i intend to cause serious damage
TO vessels OF the allies leaving ports
or the United States by placing bombs
which am making myself, ON board
These bombs resemble ordinary lumns
or coal and am planning to have
them concealed in the coal to be laden
on steamers of the allies"
Money apparently went from Ger.
man sources in the United States
through embassy channels to Sir
Roger Easement, the Irishman execut.
ed in London.
Several lines of communication no.
tween the German diplomatic service
and the Irish revolutionary movement
are indicated in the captured docu.
ments.' are also communicated. John
Dovey. OF New York. now editor of
the Gaelic American. violently anti
British paper, was one of the active
agents of this connection. Significant
entries appear here ana there; refer.
ences TO messages from the German
at Washington and the Ger
nan consulate at New York: mention
ng communication re manufacture
land grenades.'"