The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-09-26
u. S. Gives Proof That Berlin Oi-
reCted Violence and intrigue
In America.
COMPLETE SPY SYSTEM
Committee on Public information Re.
veals Startling List of Teuton
Underground Activities Against
u. S. Government.

Washington. Sept. 25.-Further dis
closures of far-reaching German pro-
%paganda. intrigues and plots In this
country prior to the diplomatic break
with Germany have been made by the
committee on public information.
In a bulletin styled official expose"
the committee quotes the numerous
letters and extracts from letters seized
by the Department of Justice In April,
1916, in a raid upon the New York
Office of Wolfe Won Igel. Won lgel. in
carrying on his manifold pro-German
and anti-American activities. the do
cuments show, was In constant touch
with the German embassy and with
Count Won Bernstorff, then the Ger
man ambassador to the United States.
Canning Evidence Found.
In the form of letters, telegram
rotations, checks, receipts, registerV
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-that the Ger
man Imperial government through its
representatives in a then friendly ma
ton was concerned with
Violation Of the laws of the United
States.
Destruction 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 writer's
and lecturers.
Financing of propaganda.
Maintenance OF a spy system under
the guise of a commercial inyestiga-
ton bureau.
purpose of stirring up labor troubles
In munition plants.
"The bomb industry and other re-
lated activities"
Holland a German Way Station.
The committee, a which Secretaries
Lansing. Baker and Daniels are mem
bers and George Creel. ch2irman. has
this to say concerning Holland:
1T has long been an open secret
that Holland is merely a way station
for shipments of c%ontraband and into
Germany. Here is official eonfirma-
ton from the von Igel records which
would seem to indicate a suspicious
and confidential relation between the
Holland commission and the German
diplomatic officials accredited to this
Germans that they could not success.
fully get the munitions to their own
country. The message in code with
interlinear translation is entered as A
24993' and headed German embassy,
Washington, ID. c.. April 8. 1916 II
runs as follows:
Kilograms from Berlin by secret,
roundabout way for Carl Heysen: Con.
sent sale Holland three hundred
thousand chests tcartridgesl and two
hundred tons powder. Please get in
touch with Holland commission. Sen
der. wal minister, foreign office. In
representation.
"(Signed) Hatzfeldt."
Prince Hatzfeldt was an official OF
the German embassy.
Hamburg-American Line Involved.
The NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. lines bur
a OF investigation, the committee
states, an ~"Inocent pretending agency
was at the outset the secret service OF
the neutrality-suspicious. STEAMSHIP
company. Under Paul Koenig. its man
ager, it became an adjunct of the Ger
mar diplomatic secret service. A letter
dated July 20, 1915, from o. r.. one o
its operatives to 1000 characterized
by the committee as Captain Won Pa
pen. former German military attache'
tells OF the payment of $3.50, I o an un
named person under peculiar precau
tions. after the recipient had mad,
this statement:
II intend to cause serious damag,
to vessels of the Allies leaving ports
of the United States by placing bombs
which | am making myself, on board
These bombs resemble ordinary lump
OF coal and ] am planning to hav,
them concealed in the coal to be ladel
On steamers of the Allies"
Money for Irish Rebels.
Money apparently went from Gel
man sources in the United State
through embassy channels to Sir Re
ger Easement, the Irishman executes
I'm London.
Several lines Of communication BIZ
italians Give JeweIry for Country.
Rome, Sept. 25.-Nearly 100
pounds Of gold has been donated t
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