The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-23
American Publisher Shown to Have Received Money
 From Berlin
STATE DEPARTMENT
 GIVES TO PUBLIC
 VON IGEL LETTERS
These, Written by Agents of Kaiser While at Peace With This Country,
 Indicate Enmity

Washington, September 22.
 Further disclosures of far reaching German propa- ganda, intrigues and plots in this country prior to the diplomatic break with Ger many were made today by the committee of public in- formation.
 In a bulletin styled "Of- ficial Expose" the commit- tee quotes numerous letters and extracts from letters
 seized by the department of
 justice in April, 1916, in a
 raid upon the New York of
 flee of Wa'1e yer Toel. Von
 Igel, in e
 fold pro America
 uments Sw WAS fn stant touch with the German
 embassy and with Count Won Bernstorff, then the
 German ambassador to the United States.
 "In the form of letters, telegrams, notations, checks, receipts, ledgers, cash books, cipher codes, lists of spies and other memoranda and rec ords," the committee says, "were found indications-in some instances of the vaguest nature, in others of the most damning conclusiveness-- that the German imperial govern ment, through it's representatives in then friendsly nation, was con- cerned with:
 1vioIation of the laws of the
 United States.
 "Destruction of lives and prop erty in merchant vessels on the high seas.
 sTrish revolutionary Dlots against Great Britain. "Fomentins fll-feelinE agalnst the United States in Mexico. "subornation of Amesicaa writers and lecturers. "FinancinE of propagaHda. Maintenance of . spy system under the guise of . commercial investigation bureau. "subsidizinE of bureau for the purpose of stirring up labor troa- bles in munition. plants. s'The bomb industry and otheg related activities.s The committee. of which Secretaries Lansing. Baker and Daniels are mem- bers. and George Creel chairman. has this to say concerning Holland COMMITTEES STATEMENT Tt has long been an open secret that Holland is merely a way station for shipments of contraband into Germany.
 Here is official confirmation from the
 von Igel records which would seem to
 Indicate suspicious and confidential relation between the Holland commis- sion and the German diplomatic off, cials accredited to this country; or pos sibly belief by the Germans that they could not successfully get the munitions to their own country. The message in code with interlinear translation is en- tered as 'A2493' and headed German kmbassy, Washington, D. C.. April 6, 1916.' It runs as follows. "sTeIesram from Berlin by se- cret. roundabout way for Carl Heysens Consent sale Holland 300.- 900 chests (cartridges) and 200 tons powder. Please get in touch with Holland oinmission. Sender. war minister. foreign office. in representation.
 (SiEneD "sHATZFEI.DT.. Prince Hatzfeldt was an official of the German embassy
 In the Hamburg American lines bu- reau of investigation the committee states. an innocent pretending agency was at the outset the secret service of the Hamburg American Steamship com amy, Under Paul Koenig. its manager. | It became an adjunct of the German dip- iomatic secret service. letter dated July 70, 1915 from 70. R,' one of it's operatives, to ''7o0o" Characterised by the committee as Captain Von Papen
 (Coptsp"~a ar p.~. Twelyey