Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-09-27
u. S. Gives Proof That Berlin Dr.
reCted Violence and Intrigue
In America.
COMPLETE SPY SYSTEM
Committee on Public information Re.
veaIs Startling List of Teuton
Underground Activities Against
u. S. Government.

Washington, Sept. 24.-Further dis.
closures of ~far-reaching German pro.
paganda, intrigues and plots in this
country prior to the diplomatic break
with Germany have been made by the
committee on public information.
In a bulletin styled Official expose
the committee quotes the numerous
letters and extracts from letters seized
by the Department of Justice in April,
1916, in a raid upon the New York
office OF Wolfe Won Igel. Won Igel, in
carrying on his manifold ~pro-German
and anti-American activities, the do,
cuments show, was in constant touch
with the German embassy and with
Count Won Bernstorff, then the Ger
man ambassador to the United States.
oDamning Evidence Found.
"In the form of letters, kilograms,
notations, checks, receipts, registers,
cash books, cipher codes, lists of spies
and other memoranda and records
the committee says, ''were found in
dlcations-in some instances of the
vaguest nature, in others of the most
damning conclusiveness-that the Ger
man Imperial government through it's
representatives in a then friendly M
ton was concerned with
violation of the laws of the United
States.
OBSTRUCTION of lives and property
in merchant vessels on the high seas.
Irish revolutionary plots against
Great Britain.
%"Fomenting ill feeling against the
United States in Mexico.
"~Subornation Of American writer's
and lecturers.
Enhancing of propaganda.
maintenance OF a spy system under
The guise of a commercial investiga-
ton bureau.
"Subsidizing of a bureau for the
purpose of stirring up labor troubles
in munition plants.
"The bomb industry and other re-
lated activities"
Holland a German Way Station.
The committee, Of which Secretaries
Lansing, Baker ana Daniels are mem
bers and George Creel, chairman, has
this to say concerning Holland:
1T has long been an open secret
that Holland is merely a way station
for shipments Of C%ontraband and into
Germany. Here is official confrma-
ton from the von 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
lnterlinear translation is entered as A
24993' and headed German embassy
Washington, D. c., April 6, 1876 1t
runs as follows:
kilograms frorl Berlin by secret
roundabout way for Carl Heysen: Con
sent sale Holland three hundred
thousand chests (cartridges) and two
hundred tons powder. Please get ir
touch with Holland commission. Sen
der, war minister, foreign office, ir
representation.
"(Signed) Hatzfeldt."
Prince hatfield was an official O.
the German embassy.
Hamburg-Ameriean Line Involved.
The Hamburg-American lines bur
eau of Investigation, the committe,
states, an Innocent pretending agenc,
was at the outset the secret service O
the neutrality-suspicious. STEAMSHIP
company. Under Paul Koenig, it's man
ager, it became an adjunct Of the Ger
man diplomatic secret service. A lette
dated July 20, 1915, from %. r., one O
it's operatives to 1000 characterize,
by the committee as Captain Won Pa
pen, former German military attache
tells Of the payment Of $3.50, to an ur
named person under peculiar precau
lions, after the recipient had mad
this statement:
Il intend to cause serious damag
to vessels of the Allies leaving port
Of the United States by placing bombs
which l am making myself, on board
These bombs resemble ordinary lump
of coal and I am planning to hav
them concealed in the coal to be lade
on steamers of the Allies"
Money for Irish Rebels.
Money apparently went from &c,
man sources in the United State
through embassy channels to Sir R,
ger Easement, the Irishman execute
In London.
Several lines of communication b,
italians Give Jewelry for Country.
> Rome, Sept. "a. - Nearly 1,OG
pounds Of gold has been donated t
the treasury department during tn
past four months In the form of orn,
ments, old coins and family jewelr,
The golden crown Of Prince Amede,
the father OF the duke of Abruzzi, wa
one OF the gifts originating in the cit
> Of Turin. Venice so far has led a