Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-07-28
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the man choosing the stenographe
they wanted "a capable girl able t,
DO his work and to keep her mouth
shuO had been Informed that she wa.
the party to choose-by other friends
OF ours. One day about five or sia
weeks after she got there she informed
US that great packing case was being
nlled up with propaganda documents
ana with bills of expense In connec.
ton with explosions in munition plants
ana other vital and valuable things,
ana was to be shipped off the follow
Ing week right straight to England on
a swedish ship and from there to Ger
many.
Won Papen FIlrts.
THE only thing we could possibly do
was to identify the package. One day
when they were about to close the
package up this girl, under instruc.
tions-and | may say incidentally she
Is now back at work getting her $16
week-sat on this box eating her lunch.
Nearly everybody else had gone, but
Won Papen, rather debonair and fond
of ladies', wandered In and sat on the
| packing box and asked If he coulQ
share her lunch with her. She said
certainly, and while they were sharing
the sandwiches he made some senti-
mental advances and she In rather a
dreamy way took out large red pencil
and drew two big red hearts on this
packing case. 1t was Captain Won Pa
pen himself who put an arrow through
them. And, ladies and gentlei len.
when the ship Austrias II reached FaIn
mouth they picked that package OFT of
the hold from about hundred and tif-
ty others and identified it by the two
big red hearts. And yet they say there
are no brilliant people but the Ger
mans
Another incident, the Toss of port"
folio belonging to DR.. Heinrich Albert,
an Austrian official, which contained |
papers relating to Ambassador Dunn
ba's efforts to incite labor. troubles in
the United States, created quite stir
among the diplomats. Mr.. Rathom told
of how Journal reporter got the pa
pers as the result Of which Dumba was
sent back to Austria by the president.
lone of the Journal reporters had
been shadowing Doctor Albert in New
York, but for months nothing seemed
ha inf
goods store, where he ordered a port
folio and gave the salesman instruc-
lions to put his initials on it. The re-
porter, as soon as Albert had gore out,
walked up to the salesman and ordered
another portfolio of the same kind.
"a day or two later Albert, carry
ing the new portfolio, was followed
from the front of his apartments by
the Journal man. Albert boarded an
elevated train. He placed his bag con-
tanning papers on the seat beside him.
he was stirred by fight In
the front of the car. AS he stood up
to see what the trouble was, as did
nearly everybody else in the car, the
portfolios were changed. This hap
pened on Saturday morning Albert,
in a statement later said that he dis
covered the trick the same day, but
we know for fact that he did not dis
cover the difference until Monday
Needless to say, the men who
we're fighting on the street car were
also In the employ of the Journal
ut was through the Journal, Mr..
3athom said, that great quantity of
papers were secured from
Wolf Won Igel. These papers revealed
he Easement plot for the Irish upris-'
ng. When the papers were taken, Mr.
2athom said, in Illustrating his point
1idity in all German diplomatists, Won
3ernstorff made application to the
itate department to have them re-
urned. He was told that any PAPER he
'ould identify would be returned to
lin, and then realized how he had
committed himself in asking that the
,apers be returned.
1--WE have not printed one-fftleth of
What we secured, but we were very
Had, when events turned, to turn the
,ey on the safe In which 1t Is deposit
d and forget the balance, because the
york we tried to do has been accom-.
'lished.'" 4