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concealed in the coal to be laden on
steamers of the allies"
Finally xxx states that "the call
err brought with him sample bomb,
such as has been described to you
by the subscriber" and asks for the
instructions.
The document is lettered at the foot,
20. r. to 7OOO." indicating that the
secret agent known as 20. R." had
transmitted it to Won Papen.
Now for the proof. direct and un-
escapable Check 1i6 on the Riggs Ma
tional Bank has been traced and add
ed to the Secret Service collection. 1t
is payable to Koenig and signed by
Won Papen. Therefore Won Papen
stands convicted. on the evidence of
a report claimed as an official docu-
ment by the Germans of paying
money to a plotter designing to blow
up merchant ships sailing from the
port of New York. The person who
made this report is known to Depart
ment of Justice officials.
Compare these documents with the
following authorized statement from
Berlin, transmitted by wireless for
publication in the New York Times in
December, 1915:
Some Wonderful Sophistry.
1.-THE German government has, natu-
rally, never knowingly accepted the
support of any person. group of per-
sons. society, or organization seeking
to promote the cause of Germany in
the United States by Illegal acts, by
counsel of violence, by contravention
Of law, or by any means whatever that
could offend the American people in
the pride of their own authority"
Destruction was not by any means
the sole interest of Koenig's energetic
bureau. 1t concerned itself also with
spy enterprises. To Koenig wrote
Otto West, an American citizen and
proprietor of the Hour Glass, at 303
Cor 1863 Fifth avenue, recommending
relative of his who, according to his
description, must be an interesting and
somewhat formidable figure. Mr..
Vests description, somewhat curtail-
ed. follows:
He is a grandson Of the late Ober-
hofprediger Strauss, of Berlin; broth
er of the present Militar Oberfarrer
Stauss, of Potsdam; nephew of the
late Admiral Won Schleinitz: the late
Gen. Won Mantey, etc. This gentle
man changed his name some twenty
odd years ago to an American name,
and none of his associates suspect
his German birth or antecedents. He
is an international journalist of great
repute. for years at the head of a
newspaper organization in England.
He has a personal reason to be very
bitter against England. because two
years ago (this letter appears to have
been written about June /, 1915. which
would make the date referred to the
early summer of 1919 a certain at
tack was made against him over COM
mercial matters in Great Britain. and
it was only by appealing to the United
States Department of State and a
writ of habeas corpus before the Lord
Chief Justice OF England that he es-
capped successfully. He was in
England and France at the outbreak
of the war: he has access to the great
sources of British and French Off
cial information. He wants to go
across to Europe and serve secretly
for Germany"
Proved by Correspondence.
OF the completeness and skill of Ger
many . spy system III IIllS country.
a glimpse is afforded through the
voluminous correspondence of DR.
Teo. Otto, of Allentown, Pa. DIR.
Otto's special concern was to ascer-
tain the nature of the contracts for
munitions and arms upon which the
various factories in the neighborhooo
were engaged and report them to the
German Embassy. His work was
such as to earn him special commen-
dation, for which. he expresses him.
self in one Of his letters as duly
appreciative. He was able. he states,
'.in my capacity as a physician to
establish relations with officials OF
almost all of the munitions factories
situated in this vicinity" Either Dr..
Otto substitutes fancy for fact or
he was able to obtain curiously exact
Information in many instances, such
as the number of foreign government.
Inspectors: the character, caliber, and
quantity Of guns ordered by foreign
governments; and other valuable de-
tails. os the Traylor Engineering
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