South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-09-23

Roger Easement, the Irishman
executed in London.
Find Several Lines.
Several lines of communication
between the German diplomatic SER
vice and the Irish revolutionary
movement are indicated in the cap
tured documents" the statement
continues. John Dewey of New
York, now editor of the Gaelic
American, a violently anti-British
paper. was one OF the active agents
of this connection. Significant en-
tries appear here and there; refer
ences to messages from the German
embassy at Washington and the
German consulate at New York;
mention of a secret code to be en-
ployed in communicating with him
and of a cipher dewey; also a nota-
ton the details of which remain
undiscovered, concerning com
munication remanufacture hand
grenades."
The following reference to Su-
preme Court Justice Daniel f. Cob
alan of New York is contained. the
committee states, in a letter found
IN the Won Igel papers in cipher |
with interlinear translation, dated |
New York, April II. 1916, number
ed 335-16 and inscribed at the top
Very secret"
Judge Cohalan requests the
transmission of the following re-
marks:
Success Depends on Germany.
The revolution in ireland can |
only be successful if supported |
from Germany, otherwise England !
will be able to suppress il, even /
though it be only after hard strug- |
giles. Therefore help is necessary. |
This should consist primarily of |
aerial attacks in England and a di- |
version 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 es- |
of stations for subma |
rines on the Irish coast and the cut
ting off of the supply of food for |
England. The services of the revo- |
luton may, therefore, decide the /
war
He asks that a telegram to this
effect be sent to Berlin"
This letter was signed 1912
1857 023O," and was addressed to
Count Won Bernstorff, Imperial
Washington, d. c.
A code message sent to Berlin
was given as follows:
National Germania Insurance
contract certainly promised. Exec
utor is evidently satisfied with prop
osition. Necessary steps have been
taken.
Henry Neuman."
OF this message the committee
has this to say:
Not so innocent and harmless
as it looks, for what the message
really means is this:
Irish agree to proposition. The
necessary steps have been taken.
Some is Imaginative.
Information carefully and ex-
tensively set forth in the secret doc
uments of the German officialdom,
the committee continues, was
sometimes wide of the facts For
a lengthy memorandum of
March 1. 1916, transmitted by the
secret agent, Capt Boehm, dealing
with the " Xican crisis. appears to
have bee. fgely the work of some
fervid and protective imagination.
1T predicts that the president
will attribute Mexico's anti-Ameri-
can activities TO German money and \
Indictment; that he will call upon
congress to support him in radical
measures (the prophet even at
tempts to paraphrase the language
70 be employed in the message); /
that congress will endorse the pres
ident's stand follow ing which up
ward of $50 German spies and
agents provocatuers were to be ar
rested and the ambassadors of the
central powers to receive their pass
ports"
After citing an extract from
Capt Boehm's letter, the commit
tee states that he was too loose of
tongue" for the good of his service
and, citing a report of the German
information bureau of
March 81. 1916, quotes the report
as follows:
Too great confidence in the
silence of his fellow men. especially /
the members of the American
Truth society. was probably the
cause of his becoming quickly /
known here
The committees statement con
tinues:
The Truth Society.
so the notorious American F.
Truth society, which so strenuous /
" denied its pro-German associa- (
lions. figures as indirectly linked up /
with Germany's secret representa- /
tive. This society is still eXtant 4
and Jeremiah A O'Leary its NOV /
ing spirit. is now the editor OF 1
Bull. recently shut out Of the mails
for publishing seditious matter"
Many inventors, the committee
states the seized papers show, are
as having plans involv- (
ing the use OF devices of destruc- !
ton. One entry is cited as follows: (
June Is, 1915. Sender, 9. S. !