The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-09-24

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Destruction Of lives and property
in merchant vessels on the high seas.
Irish revolutionary plots against
Great Britain.
"Fomenting iIl-feeling against the
United States in Mexico.
"subornation Of American writer's
and lecturers.
Financing Of propaganda.
Maintenance of spy system I'M
der the guise Of q commercial in.
vestigation bureau.
"Subsidizing OF a bureau for the
purpose Of stirring up labor troubles
in munition plants.
The bomb industry and other re-
lated activities.
Perhaps the most Illuminating
single document in the collection is
a letter of July 20. 1915, written on
the stationery Of the Bureau Of In
vestigatton'.
Aid To Germany.
This innocent, pretending agency
was at the outset the secret service
of the Hamburg American Steamship
company. Under Paul Koenig, its
manager, IL became an adjunct to
the German diplomatic secret SER
vice. Xxx is the secret designation
of Koenig, who is now under indict-
ments on criminal charges in con-
nection with his diplomatic work,
and is interned at Fort Oglethorpe.
THE person represented by the
figure 1000 is Captain Won Papen,
former military attache Of the Ger
man embassy and the practical ex-
ecutive Of its underground system.
Describes Subtefuaes.
Ana1NmNnnt "a p
the reproduction. describes the sub
terfuges Of Xxx (Koenig) so that
he might not be identified by the
mysterious when they met.
Xxx states that money was to be
drawn for the payment Of $3.50 to the
unnamed person, under peculiar pre-
cautions. through Check No. 146 on
the Riggs National bank, Washing
ton, dated July Is, payable to --,
signed --. amount $3.50. No rea-
son was given as to why the pay
ment was made says the report.
Makes Statement.
Several days after the payment.
the recipient called at the passenger
Office Of the -- line and made a
statement which is thus embodied in
the xxx report:
my name is -. have an Of
fee at the building. but do
not care to state my local address. l
intend to causeS serious damage to
vessels of the allies leaving ports of
the United States by placing bombs,
which am making myself, on board.
These bombs resemble ordinary
Jumps of coal, and / am planning to
have them concealed in the coal to
be laden on steamers of the allies
Brought Sample Bomb.
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, o. r. to 7000,' indicating that
the secret agent known as o. r. had
transmitted it to Won Papen.
SNOW for the proof, direct and un-
escapabIe. Check 146 on the Riggs
National bank has been traced and
added to the secret service eollee-
ton.
"It is payable to koenig and sign
ed by Won Papen. Therefore Won
Papen stands convicted on the evil
dence of a report claimed az an Off
ciaI document by the Germans, of
paving 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 department of justice of
fioiaIs.
Compare these documents with
the following authorized statement
from Berlin, transmitted by Wire less
for publication in The New York
Times in December, 1915:
ornvaFnnnnt has
naturally, never knowingly accepted
the support of any person, group Of
persons, society, or organization
seeking to promote the cause Of Ger
many in the United States by IL
legal 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
Also Directed Spies,
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 1Ameri-
can citizen and proprietor OF the
Hour Glass. at 300 Cor $3.50 Fifth ave-
nue., recommending a relative of his
who, according to his description,
must be an interesting and some
what formidable figure. Mr.. Vests
description, somewhat curtailed. fol-
lows:
He is a grandson OF the late
Oberhofprediger Strauss Of Berlin;
brother of the present Militar Ober-
pfarrer Strauss Of Potsdam; nephew
Of the late Admiral Won Schleinitz;
the late General Won Mantey, etc.
This gentleman changed his name
some twenty-odd years ago to an
American name. and none of his as
sociates suspect his German birth or
antecedents,
I" He is an international journalist
Of great repute. for years at the head
of a newspaper organization in Eng
land. He has a personal reason to
be very bitter against England, be-
cause two years ago (this letter ap-
pears to have been written about
June /, 1915, which would make the
date referred to the early summer of
1919, a certain attack was made
against him over commercial mat
tiers in Great Britain. and it was
only by appealing to the United
States department Of state and
writ of habeas corpus before the
Lord Chief Justice of England that
he escaped successfully.
Wt&nGo o S6FN0 1SFWfanys
He was in England and France
at the outbreak of the war; he has
access to the great sources Of Brit
ish and French official information.
He wants to 60 across to Europe and
serve secretly for Germany.
"Of the completeness and skill Of
Germany's spy system in this coun-
try, glimpse Is afforded through the
voluminous correspondence of DR..
Thee. Otto of Allentown, Pa. DR..
Otto's special concern was to ascer-
tain the nature Of the contracts for
munitions and arms upon. which the
various factories in the neighborhood
were engaged and report them to
the German embassy.
Earned Recommendation.