The Benson signal., 1917-09-29

details OF which remain undiscovered,
concerning communication re-manu-
facture hand grenades.
The following reference to Supreme
Court Justice Daniel F. Cohalan Of
New York is contained, the committee
states, in letter found in the Won
Igel papers in cipher with interlinear
translation, dated New York, April II.
1916, numbered 335-16 and inscribed at
the top Every secret"
Judge Cohalan requests the trans
mission Of the following remarks:
1.-The revolution in Ireland can only
be successful If supported from Ger
many; otherwise England will be able
to suppress 1t, even though it be only
after hard struggle. Therefore help Is
necessary. This should consist pri-
marily Of aerial attack in England and
a diversion of the fleet simultaneously
with Irish revolution. Then, If pos
sible, landing of troops, arms and
ammunition in Ireland, and possibly
some officers from Zeppelins. This
would enable the Irish ports to be
closed against England and the estab-
lishment Of stations for submarines on
the Irish coast and the cutting off of
the supply of food for England. The
services of the revolution may there
fore decide the war
HE asks that telegram to this ef-
feet be sent to Berlin"
This letter was signed "5132 8167
O230" and was addressed to Count
Won Bernstorff, Imperial ambassador,
Washington, D. c.
Code Message.
A code message sent to Berlin was
given as follows:
National Germania insurance con-
tract certainly promised. Executor is
evidently satisfied with proposition.
Necessary steps have been taken.
"HENRY NEWMAN"
Of this message the committee has
this to say:
mot so innocent and harmless as it
looks, for what the message really
means is this: Irish agree to PROPOSE
tion. The necessary steps have been
taken
Information carefully and exten-
sively set forth in the secret document
of the German officialdom, was some
times wide of the facts. For example,
a lengthy memorandum of March 81,
1916, transmitted by the secret agent,
Captain Boehm, dealing with the Mex
lean crisis, appears to have been
largely the work of some fervid and
protective imagination.
"It predicts that the President will
attribute Mexico's anti-American ac-
tivities to German money and incite-
ment; that he will call upon Congress
to support him in radical measures
(the prophet even attempts to para
phrase the language to be employed
in the message): that Congress will
endorse the Presidents stand, follow
ing which upward of $50 German
spies and agents were to be arrested
and the ambassadors of the central
powers to receive their passports"
After citing an extract from Captain
Boehm's letter, the committee states
that he was "too loose of tongue" for
the good of service and, citing re-
port of the German military informa-
ton bureau of March 21, 1916, quotes
the report as follows:
"Too great confidence in the silence
of his fellow men, especially the mem
bers of the American Truth Society
was probably the cause of his
becoming quickly known here"
The committees statement con-
tinues:
$50 the notorious American Truth
Society, which so strenuously denied
it's pro-German associations, figures
as indirectly linked up with Germany's
secret representatives. This society
is still extant and jeremiah A.
O'Leary, it's moving spirit, is now the
editor of Bull" recently shut out of
the mails for publishing seditious mat
ter"
Many investors, the committee
states the seized papers show, are
represented as having plans involving
use of devices of destruction. One
entry is cited as follows
"'June Is, 1915. Sender. G. S. Vier
rex. Contents, inquiry as to bombs;
supply offer. Told to send further de-
tails.
POSSIBLY the further Details" the
statement continues, "are indicated in
another entry of four months later:
"'Sender, Vierreck. Contents, offer
of picric acid
"Picric acid is constituent of many
high explosives"
An entry entitled pure war ex-
penses" from the Won Igel paper Is
made public by the committee as fol-
lows:
Edward Emerson, 81 900.
Fair Play (Mr. Braun, $4,000.
"Fair Play (Mr. Braun), $1,000.
Marcus Braun, $1,000.
81. Archibald, $5,000.''
The statement continues:
Concerning the identity Of the last