Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-23

be employed in the message); that
Congress Will indorse the Presidents
stand, following which upward of $50
German spies aid agents provocateurs
were TO be arrested and the amhassa-
doris of the central powers TO receive
their passports.
For all this, Captain Boehms author
y is thus indicated over his own sig
IotIre:
The foregoing memorandum was
Just given TO me by an acquaintance
returning from Washington. The 'ac-
puaintance' is ski!lful journalist.
who has good connections. l canno,
vouch for his reliability, but | know
that he hates the present administra-
ton and fights it. His informant is
former secretary of the America II
embassy at Rome now in Washing
ton"
Captain Boehm himself was too loose
of tongue for the good of his service.
II would appear from a report of the
German military information bureau
dated March 81. 1916.
Captain Boehm decided TO leave
after reports received here were sub
United to him to the effect that mem
bcrs of the press were informed as
TO his personality and the purpose o.
his being here. TOO great confidence
( in the silence of his fellow men. es-
pecially the members Of the American
Truth Society was probably
the cause Of his becoming quickl.
known here"
Truth Society Active.
SO the notorious American TrutF
Society. which SO strcnuously denied
ITS pro-Gcrman associations. figures rs
/ indirectly linked UP with Germany.
secret representatives. This society i.
stu extant. and jeremiah a. OLcary
ITS moving spirit, is now the edito.
OF Bull. recently shut out Of the mail!
for publishing scditious matter
! Many inventors, some of them OBJ
vlousiy cranks. arc represented either
by correspondence or notation az hav,
ing plans involving tho use Of sundr,
devices OF destruction. one entry o.
the sort merits special attention be.
cause OF the notoricty of the individua
involved. Here it is, translated from
/ the German record Of corrcspondcuce
June 10. 1915. Sender. G.. S. Vicr
/ eek. Contents. inquiry as to bombs
/ supply offer. Told TO send further de
] tails"
/ Possibly the further details ere In
nicated In another entry OF four months
, later.
Sender. viereck. Contents offer o
/ picric acid"
llcric acid is a constituent OF man,
hiHh explosives. Mr.. Vicreck Is some
ming Of high explosive himself, hav
ing been editor Of the virulcntly Dro
ncfinan weekly, Fathcriand. OF New
YORK. now changed in tito (but not fl
purpoSc) 70 'Nicrcck's Weekly"
Just what interest DR.. l.. A. Dessar
OF :" broad street. New York CITY
ma" IN German aerial warfare ~
matter for speculation.
IN inc Won igcl archives appears ;
e'tcr from X l.. Scovilie. OF Sewick
ley. Ia. and New York CITY. urgin,
thc merits OF the Scmple aeroercnadc
Or. Dessar evidently forwarded Tn
leteT where he though 1t would do tn
most good. VIZ 10 Won Igel
Wants to How Up Plants.
N'r'tuily preserved tfor what pnr
posc one can only conjecture) are tw,
letters written carly in 1916 by r
lowing. OF 10. Franklin Avenue
hartford. Conn. TO Count Won Bcrn
storm, the German amba.sndo, nv
piaininS little plan Of tho writer.
10 got rooms near various munitio,
factories and blow thcm up. Spcciec,I
~. he exprcssed Willingness TO dca,ro,
'he scoVii!e Manufacturing Conru n,