Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-10-04
WORK OF GERMAN PLoTTERs

WORK OF GERMAN PLoTTERs
In the fail of 1914. shortly AFTER the.
outbreak of the war, the German en-
bassy established = publicity depart.
nnent at 60 Wall street, under the di-
rection of Wolf Won Iqei about two
years later this office was raided and
documentary proof obtained that Won
igei was the chief spy and pIotter OF
vast system maintained in the United
States under Ambassador Won Bern
storff's general direction.
Paul ,koenig, pretending to conduct
the secret service of the HAMBURG
American Steamship company from, a
New York office, was discovered to be
in reality one of the directors of the
German spy system in the United
States. He is now informed at Fort
Ogiethorpe- In Won 8ernstorff,s code
he was known as Xxx"
IN q report by koenio to his boss,
Captain Won Papen of the German
embassy, koenio describes an agent
who has made bombs to resemble
Jumps of coal to be placed on board
merchantmen sailing from New York,
| for the purpose of blowing them up
| while at sea.
DR.. Max Niven of Chicago is shown
as receiving $50 for the labor fund in
connection with establishing branch
Of German and Austro-Hungarian la
| Dor information and relief bureau in
| Detroit.
| The German embassy maintained
| confidential relations with the irish
revolutionary movement, through John
Dewey of New York formerly of Chi
cago), editor of the Gaelic American.
| Through Dewey at least one check for
| $1,000 was sent to Sir Roger Easement.
| Daniel r. cohaIan, supreme court
| justice Of New York, is shown in 4 Won
| igel cipher message az urging German
| support for the Irish revolution.
| George Sylvester Viereck, editor Of
| The FatherIand, a rabid pro-Gernan
| weekly published in New York city, is
noted in the German records as send
ing inquiries as to bombs and picric
acid. Viereck is still conducting his
paper, having changed it's name to Vie
reck's Weekly since the United States
entered the war.
James F. j. Archibald, the magazine
writer, in whose possession the Brit
ish government discovered official cor
| respondentce between Won Bernstorff
and Berlin, is shown in one of the pa
| pers seized to have acknowledged re-
ceipt of $1,000. Edwin Emerson, an
other writer, got 81 COO from Won IeeL
Ray Beveridge, a California artist.
and sister of kuehne Beveridge, the
sculptor, is shown to have received ST.
600 of German propaganda money.
|
Concerning the identity of the last
| mi he fa-
| for a signed receipt from J. F. j. Arch
| ibaid acknowledging the sum of IS 900
from the German embassy for propa
| ganda work What return Archfbal Id
| ever made in service is not clear except
| that certain war correspondence for
| which he contracted with New York
| newspapers was so obviously pretudiced
| on the side of the central powers that
| they declined to accept it,
Even with such liberal support Fair
| Play did not fill the bill. for in Janu-
ary 1915. a letter was written by F.
Schroeder. German newspaper CORE
| spondent in Toxic. to the German dipIo-
| matte repreSentatfv Iamenting the
| lack of a genuinely influential weekly
| in New York devoted to Teutonic inter
| ests and suggesting that one Borsodi
| might be the right man to conduct such
| publication
viereck and Others.
| Frequent hints of George Sylvester
| NierecNs journalistic activities appear
| and there are a few rotations of Pear
| subject. fDFeSS- winch may REFER
| to Parsons Magazine. of which the
| editor. Frank Harris is strongly pro-
| German. or may indicate a secret agent
| named Pearson. who is the subjet of
other entries.
| The lecture platform is represented
| by Ray Beveridge. the California artist
/ and sister of Kuehne Beyeridxe. the
| prominent sculptor In one entry Privy
/ Councillor Albert acknowledges receipt
| of $4,000 from the embassy to finance
i Miss Beveridge's lecture tour German
| war pictures were also to be furni he'd.
| though the alleged scope of the lectures
| was to be comprised in topics allied to
| Red Cross work.
| Other figures of vague import
| drift into light here and there in the
| Won Igel papers the bureau of in
| vestigation reports Col. E. G. Wood
| ford. old British hater. appears to
| for service unspecified. The following
| letters found in the Won Tgel papers re-
| fer to Colonel Woodford:
| New York. April 4. 1915.
| His Exce1iency. Mr. Won Igel.
| New York. N. "
| According to letter received here
| today. the imperial embassy is OF the
| should not be paid to Woodford.
| Please act accordingly and inform
I Woodford. if he should show up there
| again. that Berlin has received the let
| ter regarding the sum to be paid md
| has besides again been asked by teie-
| graph whether money should be paid
| Until answer is received from Berlin.
| nothing more can be paid
(sfgnedD PRETzELL
| Colonel woodford appears however.
from the following letter to have re-
| ceiyed the sums promised: