Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-07
VAST BERLIN PLOT
! JTNEARTHED US.
Threat of Bandit Revolt
Used to Coerce Car
rama Aid
$4,000, 900 WA SPENT

NEW YORK, March I.--Germany threat
IA General Carranza with the most for
s.,,e revolution he had ever known" II
.,used 10 make war on the United
&c in accordance with Foreign Secre-
,.ry zlmernanns proposal for German
W.x,co-Japanese alliance.
rb's fact together with other sensational
..,..,opments were disclosed by Federal au-
..o-;tiss today in the investigation that
..rored the arrest of Dr. Ernest Matthias
s.tunna. German, and Dr. Chandra
r,.rraberty, a Bengalese, for formulating
! an East Indian plot.
FACTS IN SPY SYSTEM
,,,ormation obtained by Federal authori-
.,.s from pa pers seized in the office Of Wolf
.or Ieel at the time of the Welland Canal
.,o, exposures, together with other hits of
audience. enabled Federal authorities here.
.,oy said TO announce these disclosures:
THAT Robert Fay. lieutenant in the
csrman army. who escaped from the
t,saeraI penitentiary at Atlanta whileN
carving term for plotting to destroy
Allied muntion ships. went to Mexico,
ubere he is now in hiding.
THAT S3OOO.OOG has been spent by
,.s German Government in fomentins
.n, plots in the United States within
the last few months.
THAT hthousand nds" Of German spies
are now engaged in different parts Of
the country IN terminating ana rurther-
ing conspiracies
THAT the spy system Is headed by an
agent of the Kaisers government, re-
ferred 10 as the master spy who is
still at large.
Thai Berlin. in spite Of many arrests
1lAt. t.
entity satisfied with the results accom-
plished
Won Igels name is connected with many
=. the disclosures Federal authorities as
sert they have reason to believe that he
~,s the managing director of the German
anti system until he. sailed for home with
Count Won Bernstorff, and that he turned
sis work over to the master spy" whose
IDENTITY has not yet been disclosed
Tho Federal authorities learned. they as
serted this afternoon. that Carranza was
,o,i6ed in So many words that if he did
| not acauesce in the German program a
Ao,aruned revolution would be set under
NAV financed by German money and en-
| rreered by German military authorities,
70 depose him.
PRESSURE ON CARRANZA
| In this connection It was recalled that n
| Sienatch from I'll Paso several weeks ago
hroke the news that United States agents
we're investigating reports that German
eonsuls we're supplying villa and other ban
dts with funds with which to renew their
onerations against Carranza. 1t is believed
n he motA than coincidence that Villa
suddenly became active in northern Mexico
and that Fecista bandits began operating
IN the Monterey district ar about the same
time that Germany began exerting pressure
on Mexico to join in possible war against
the United States. Viewed in the light of
III dispatch disclosures, it is now believed
that northern Mexican bandits were stirred
to activity by German agents for the sole
purpose Of convincing Carranza that Ger
many could make good her threats.
There is ample evidence to prove that
there Is spy system for the German Gov.
ernment in this country directing the activ-
Ties OF the various groups of tools said
high Government official this afternoon.
He is the hub in this intricate intrigue
and his agents, numbering thousands. are
the spokes Before Won Igel left this coun.
try each OF these agents received consid
cradle cash appropriation. varying IL
amount according to the importance of the
agent and the work mapped out for him. II
has been ascertaned that the amount
known to have been spent to date has beer
little in excess of $4,000, 900"
Furthermore, the Government official as.
serted, a streak of German" has beer
found In many of the peace societies and
pacihst organizations which the authori.
ties have investigated since the work of tht
kaiser's secret agents began to assume
such menacing scope
Assistant United States District Attor
ney John e. Knox spent the greater part OF
the day with Captain william NJ Ofhey
mead Of the Federal Bureau of Tnvestiga
ton, studying the papers seized in vor
lgels office. Those papers that have to d,
with the cases against Sakunna and tn.
eengalese will be laid before a Fedora
Grand Jury tomorrow
Knox announced today that he was pre-
parlng to bring Representative Buchanan n
Of Illinois; H. Robert Fowler. Henry
Martin and others ind cted last year ol
charges OF conspiring to foment strikes il
muhiton plants to trial at an early date