Middletown transcript., 1917-09-29
AMAZING GERMAN PLOTS IN i. s.
REVEALED IN Won |GELL'S PAPERS
Important Disclosures Made By Committee
on Informalion---Irish Rebellion One
Sample of Activity---List of Spies

Washington.-Add disclosures
Of Teuton treachery, intrigues and
plots in this country prior to the break
with Germany were made public by
the Committee on Public Information.
In bulletin styled Official Expose
the committee quotes numerous let
ters and extracts from letters seized
by the Department Of Justice in April,
1916, in raid upon the New York
office of Wolfe Won Igel. Won Igel, in
carrying on his manifold pre- German
and anti-American activities, the docu,
ments show, was in constant touch
with the German Embassy and with
Count Won Bernstorff, then the German
ambassador to the United States.
I'm the form of letters, telegrams,
nctations checks, receipts, ledgers,
cash books, cipher codes lists of spies
and other memoranda and records,
the committee says, were found in
dications-in some instances of the
vaguest nature, in others of the most
damning conclusiveness- the Ger
man Imperial Government through its
representatives in then friendly ma
ton was concerned with.
Violation of the laws of tie United
States.
OBSTRUCTION of lives and property
In merchant vessels on the high seas
Irish revolutionary plots against
Great Britain.
"Fomenting i'll feeling against the
United States in Mexico.
"Subornation Of American writers
and lectures.
Enhancing Of propaganda
Maintenance Of a spy system under
the guise of commercial investigation
bureau.
"Subsidizing CT a bureau for the pur-
pose Of stirring up labor troubles in
munition plants.
THE bomb industry ard other re-
| lated activities"
The committee, Of which Secretaries
Lansing, Baker and Daniels are mem
| bers and George Creel. chairman, has
| this to say concerning Hclland:
Holland A Way Station.
"It has long been an open secret
that Holland is merely a way station
for shipments OF contraband into Ger
u:lny Here is official confirma tiol
! from the Won Igel records which
would seem to indicate a suspicious
| ard confidential relation between the
Holland Commission and the German
diplomatic officials accredited to this
country. or possibly a belief by the
! Germans that they could not success
| ruly set tee munitions to their OW1
country. The message in code with in
'~rlinear translation is entered a
q 2493' and headed German Embassy
Washington, D. c., April 6, 1916 ]
ruas as follows:
Telegram from Berlin by score
roundabout way fer Carl Heysen: Con
sert sale. Holland 100000 chests Gear
tridges) and 200 tons powder. Pleas
get in torch with Holland CommiS
sion. Sender. War Minister. Forei"'
On.ce, in representation.
(Signed) 'HATZFELDT."
Prince Hatzfeldt was an official c
the German Embassy.
The Ham burg American Lines bl'
reau CT investigation, the ccmmitte'
states, al innocent pretending agency
was at the outset the secret service c
the Hamburg-American Steamship
Company. Under Paul kOenig. ii!
manager, it became an adjunct of th'
German diplomatic secret service. !
letter dated July 20, 1915, from 20. R.,
one Of its operatives, to 1000" (char
acterized by the committee as Captain
Won Papen, former German militar.
attache), tells CT the payment of SIS
to IN unnamed person, under peculia
precautions after the recipient hat
made this statement:
Il intend to cause serious damag
to vessels Of the Allies leaving port
of the United States by placin
bombs, which l am making myself
on board These bombs resemble OF
binary Jumps of coal, and / am plar
ming to have them concealed in tn
coal to be laden on steamers cf tn
Allies"
Financing Irish Revolt.
Money apparently went from Gel
man sources in the United State
through embassy channels to 81
Roger Easement, the Irishman exc
cuted in London.
Several lines of communicate
between the German diplomatic SerN
ice and the Irish revolutionary move
ment are indicated in the capture
documents" the statement continues
John Dewey, of New York, now edito
of the Gaelic American, a violentl
anti-British paper. was one OF the az
tive agents Of this connection. SIS
nificant entries appear here and there
references to messages from the Gel
man Embassy at Washington and tn
German consulate at New York; mel
ton of 4 secret code to be employed i
communicating with him and 'ciphe
decoy'; also notation, the details
which remain undiscovered, concerl
ing Communication remanufactur
hand-grenades.
The following reference to Suprem
Court Justice Daniel F. Cohalan, {
New York, is contained, the commi
tee states, in a letter found in tn
Won Igel papers in cipher with inte
SWEDISH MINISTERS LOYAL.