The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-10-04
E ON PUBLIC INFORMATION.


ence chiefly by Germans who had moth
Ing whatsoever TO do with advertising.
The other was n large safe bearing the
insignia OF the German imperial gov
ernment.
one morning In April. 1916. govern
ment secret service men visited this
same Wall street office while Won lgel
was preparing a mass OF papers which
he had taken from the safe for traus-
fer to the German embassy In Wash
ington.
Find Lists OF Spies.
when the papers were examined by
| the department of justice the reason Tor
Won Igers determined fight became APP
parent Here. in the form OF letters,
kilograms. notatons. checks receipts.
ledgers. cashbooks, cipher codes. lists
of spies and other memoranda and rec
ords we're found indcatlons-in some
Instances of the vaguest nature. In
others of the most damning conclusive
ness-that the German imperial gov
ernment. through Its representatives, In
then friendly nation. was concerned
with:
Violation Of the laws OF the United
states.
Destruction OF lives and property In
merchant vessels on the high seas.
Great Britain.
FomentIng III feeling against the
| United States In Mexico.
Subornatlon OF American writers and
| lecturers -
Financing OF propaganda.
Maintenance OF n spy system under
| the gulse OF a commercial investiga-
tion bureau.
Subsidlzng OF bureau for the pur-
| = Inhar trOnhiaa In
| munition ptnnts.
The bomb industry and other related
| activities.
Koenig-von Papen Commerce Bureau.
Perhaps the most Illuminating single
| document in the collection Is letter OF
July 90 1915. reproduced as 1t ap-
peared upon the stationery OF the "Bu-
reau OF Investi CATION" This Innocent.
pretending agency was at the outset
the secret service OF the Hamburg
American Steamship company. Under
Paul Koenig. Its manager. It became an
adjunct TO the German diplomatic secret
service. xxx is the secret designa-
ton OF Koenig. who Is now under In
dictments on criminal charges In con-
| nectIon with this diplomatic" work,
and Is lnterned at Fort Oglethorpe.
The person represented by the figure
"7 900" Is Captain Won Papen, former
military attache OF the German EN-
bassy and the practical executive oil It's
| underground system. The document de-
| scribes the subterfuges of NIX (koe-
nig) so that he might not b" identified
/ nv the mysterious - when they met
| ky states that money was to be
I drawn for the payment OF $3.50 to the
| unnamed person, under peculiar precau-
tions. through Check No. li6 on the
| Riggs National bank, Washington.
dated July l6 payable to-----
/ signed --. amount $3.50. NO rea-
son was given rs to why the payment
was made" says the report
Bombs in Coal.
Several days after the payment the
recipIent called at the passenger Of
fee OF the - line" and made state
ment which is thus embodied In the
xxx report.
"My name Is have an office
at the - building, but do not care
10 state my local address. | intend to
cause serious damage to vessels OF the
allies leaving ports OF the United states
nv placing bombs, which am making
myself. on board These bombs re-
semhle ordinary Jumps of coal, and
am Manning to have them concealed In
the coal to be laden on steamers OF
the allies
Finally xxx states that the caller
brought with him sample bomb
"such as has been described to you by
the subscriber" and asks for the in
structiona.
THE document is lettered at the foot
90 n. to 1000" indicating that the Sc
cret agent known as 20. r." had trans
mittod II to Won Papen.
Check Is Traced.
, Now for the proof, direct and unes
, capable. Check LAG on the Riggs Nation
al hank has been traced and added &C
the secret service collection. II Is pay
able to Koenig and signed by. Won Papen
Therefore Won Papen stands convicted
on the evidence of report claimed a:
an official document by the Germans, ol
paying money to a plotter designing tC
: blow up merchant ships sailing from the
port of New York. The person who made
this report Is known to department %
Justice officials
Compare these documents with the fol
/ | lowing authorized statement from Ber
, lin. transmitted by wireless for publica
tion in the New York Times In December
1915:
I "The German government has, nat
p urally, never knowingly accepted the sup
port of any person, group Of persons. so
= mote the cause OF Germany in the Unite,
: States by Illegal acts, by counsel or vi
n olence by contraventon OF law, or b.
any means whatever that could offen
the American people in the pride of thei
+ own authority"
: Destruction was not by any mean
the sole interest OF Koenlg's energeti
I bureau. It concerned itself also wit
\ spy enterprises. TO Koeng wrote OFT
l. West, an American citizen and pro
4 prietor of the Hour Glass, at 3O3 20
S60 Fifth avenue, recommending a rela
Z tive OF his who, according to his de
g scription, must be an interesting an
, somewhat formidable figure. Mr.. West
. description somewhat curtaied follows
d "He Is n grandson of the late Ober
g hofprediger Strauss OF Berlin, brothe
OF the present Militar Oberpfarrer Straus
OF Potsdam, nephew OF the late AdmirS
Won Schleinitz, the late General Won Mar
i tey, etc. This gentleman changed his nam
Il some twenty odd years ago to an Amer
y lean name. and none OF his associates su:
C poets his German birth or antecedent
IS He is an international journalist OF grea
C repute. for years at the head OF a news
paper organization In England
II "He has personal reason to be yer
& bitter against England because tw
o. years ago Uhis letter appears to hav
= been written about June /, 1915. whic
n would make the date referred to IL
n early summer OF 1879 certain attaC
IS was made against him over commercii
Is matters In Great Britain, and II VIZ
l. only by appealing to the United STATE