The Washington herald., 1917-09-23

the government Of the Province of
Quebec. was one of the vice presidents
and later president i am well known
among the members and journalists
| In that organization. There l.
now In the place of the Independence
Club a secret society based upon fits
principles. aiming at the total sep
aration of Canada from the British
Empire. II includes all the
former members of the Independence
Club and men high In Canadian poll
tical life. The adherents are for the
most part French and Irish Cana
dams. / am in daily connec-
ton with one of the leading men in
the separation movement Hon. ].
Hall Kelly. who is a member of the
Legislative Council of the Province
OF Quebec and also a member Of the
government"
Information carefully and extern
sively set forth in the secret docu-
nents of the German officialdom was
sometimes wide OF the facts. For ex-
ample. a length memorandum of
March !, 1916. transmitted by the
secret agent, Capt. Boehm, dealing
with the Mexican crisis. appears to
have been largely the work of some
fervid and protective imagination.
The memorandum purports to outline
President Wilson's expected message
to Congress. 1t predicts that the
President will attribute Mexfco's anti
American activities direct TO German
money and incitement; that he will
call upon Co 49, ess to support him in
radical measures dhe prophet even
attempts to paraphrase the language
to be employed in the message); that
Congress will indorse the Presidents
stand. following which upward of $50
German spies and agents provoca-
teurs were to be arrested and the am
bassadors of the central powers to
receive their passports.
Knew What Congress Would Do.
For all this. Capt Boehm's author
Ity is thus indicated over his own sig
nature:
THE foregoing memorandum was
Just given TO me by an acquaintance
returning from Washington. The 'ac-
quaintance' is skillful journalist
who has good connections. I cannot
vouch for his reliability. but ] know
that he hates the present administra-
tion. and fights 1t. His informant Is
a former secretary of the American
| ~ @NSAANB INV III " dsulllE-
ton"
| Capt. Boehm himself was too loose
OF tongue for the good of his service,
it would appear from a report of the
German military information bureau,
dated March IL. 1876:
Capt Boehm decided to leave after
reports received here were submitted
to him to the effect that members of
the press were informed as TO his per-
sonality and the purpose of his being
here. Too great confidence in the ST.
lence of his fellow men. especially the
members of the American Truth Soci-
ETY.. was probably the cause
Of his becoming quickly known here"
"OppositIon" Ruled by Grants.
So the notorious American Truth So
ciety. which strenuously denied it's
lTIo-German associations figures as in
directly linked up with Germany's Sc
cret representa- tives. This society is
still extant, and jeremiah A. O'Leary.
it, moving spirit, is now the editor
of Bull. recently shut out of the mails
for publishing seditious matter.
Many inventors, some OF them OBJ
iviously cranks. are represented either
by correspondence or notation as nav
| llS pans INV OlNlnS the Us O. SGnuTg
devices of destruction. One entry of
the sort merits special attention be-
cause of the notoriety OF the individual
involved. Here Z IS. translated from
the German record of correspondence: :
"June Is, 1915. Sender, C. S. Vier-
eek Contents. inquiry as to bombs
supply offer. Told TO send further de-
tails"
Possibly the further details are in
dicated in another entry Of four
months later
Sender. viereck. Contents. offer Of
picric acid"
Picric acid is a constituent OF many
high explosives. Mr.. viereck is some
thing of a high explosive himself,
having been editor Of the virulently
pro-German weekly Fatherland, OF
New York. now changed in title but
not in purpose to "viereck's Weekly"
Just what interest Dr. L. A. Dessar,
. Of . Broad street. New York City,
had in German aerial warfare is d
matter for speculation.
In the Won Igel archives appears a
letter from r. L. Scoyille. of Sewick-
ley, Pa, and New York City, urging
the merits Of the Semple aerogrenade.
DR.. Dessar evidently forwarded the
letter where he thought it would do
the most good. viz, to Won Igel.
Letters show Plots.
Carefully preserved (for what pur-
pose one can only conjecture) are two
letters written early in 1916 by T. J.
, Dowling, OF lO7 Franklin avenue. Hart
ford. Conn. to Count Won BernstorG.
the German Ambas 81 ador, explaining a
1fffIa V1a Of ha 50
near various munitions factories and
| blow them up. Specifically. he eN-
pressed willingness to destroy the Sco-
Vile Manufacturing Company and the
Chase Mills, OF waterville, Conn; the
Remington Arms Company and the
Union Metallic Cartridge Company
: factories in Bridgeport, Conn; and
when that was completed he thought
? that he might so out to Port Huron,
: Mich. and blow up the Grand Trunk
! tunnel near that place. As all these
: constructions are still standing. il 4:
} obvious that Mr.. Dowlings plans fail
: ed to commend themselves to his dis
tinguished correspondent. His present
: " vhereabouts are not known.
Other would-be destroyers OF Ger
, many's foes were less definite. Family
pride was the enercizing motive oi
: Mr.. c. J. Waldron, OF Medusa, \. Y.
} who wrote that, being a direct de
: scendant of Baron Won Waldron, n
$ was deeply interested in the German
{ cause. wherefore he proffered (Apri
. 10. 1876 a shell of his own invention
1t was not accepted.
A note of grim humor is supplied 1N
: William ]. Ruff, Of Quincy. Ill, who's
letter of July %, 1915, to Capt. vcf
Papen suggests new methods of blow
ing up trenches and planting mine!
for ships. My sole idea." explains th'
Ingenious hIr. Ruff. lis to help an'
save lives" @ Nothing in the Vol
Igel archives supplies evidence tha