The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1917-10-06
DASTARDLY WORK OF GERMAN SPIES
DISCLOSED BY Seized DOCUMENTS
That Emlssaries Of the Kaiser Struck Many Foul Blows
= Proved by Papers Made Public by the
Government
Ex-eERMAN AMBASSADOR is DEEPLY INVOLVED IN PLOT

frequented during two years OF singu-
ldEly quiet and unbusinesslike exist
ence chiefly by Germans who had moth
Ing whatsoever to do with advertising.
The other was a large safe bearing the
insignia OF the German imperial gov
eminent.
One morning in April. 1915. govern
ment secret service men visited this
same Wall street ONCE while Won Igel
was preparing a mass of papers which
he had taken from the safe foritraDs-
fer TO the German embassy In Wash
ington.
Find Lists Of Spies. ~
When the papers were examined by
the department OF Justice the reason for
| Won Igel's determined fight became APP
parent. Here. In the form of letters,
kilograms. notations. checks. receipts.
| lsdgers. cashbooks. cipher codes lists
| of spies. and other memoranda and rec
| ords were found indications-in some
| instances of the vaguest nature. In
| others OF the most damning conclusive
| ness-that the German imperial gov
eminent. through its representatives in
a then friendly nation. 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 Ill feeling against the
United States in Mexico.
| Subornation of American writers and
| lecturers.
Financing OF propaganda.
Maintenance Of a spy eystem under
the guise of a commercial investiBa-
ton bureau.
subsidizing of a bureau for the pur-
| nf atIx rip lah nr n
munition plants
The bomb industry and other related
activities.
Koenio-von Papen Commerce Bureau.
Perhaps the most illuminating single
document In the collection Is a letter OF
July 20. 1915, reproduced as II APP
peared upon the stationery OF the "Bu-
reau of Investi CATION" This innocent
pretending agency was at the outset
the secret service of the Hamburg
American Steamship company. Under
Paul Koenig. its manager. II became an
adjunct TO the German diplomatic secret
service. Xxx IL the secret designa-
ton OF Koenig who 10 now under In
dictments on criminal charges In con-
nection with this diplomatic" work
and Is informed at Fort Oglethorpe.
The person represented by the figure
ct 900" is Captain Won Papen. former
military attache of the German en-
bassy and the practical executive of Its
underground system. The document de-
scrtbes the subterfuges OF xxx" (Koe-
nig) so that he might not be Identified
by the mysterious - when they met
xxx" states that money was to be
drawn for the payment of $3.50 TO the
unnamed person, under peculiar precau-
lions, through Check No. LAG on the
Riggs National bank. Washington
dated July 10. payable to------
signed -. amount $3.50. No rea-
| rixf IN ph mn m a m
was made" says the report
Bombs In Coal.
Several days after the payment. the
recipient called at the passenger Of
Ace of the = line" and made a state
ment which is thus embodied in the
xxx report.
my name Is ] have an once
Mt the - building, but do not care
to state my local address. I intend to
cause serious damage to vessels of the
allies leaving ports of the United States
by placing bombs which I am making
myself on board. These bombs re-
semble ordinary Jumps OF coal, and
am planning to have them concealed in
the coal to be laden on steamers oil
the allies"
Finally xxx states that "the caller
brought with him q sample bomb
such as has been described to you by
the subscriber" and asks for the In
structions.
The document Is lsttered at the foot
20. r. to 70o0." indicating that the Sc
cret agent known as 20. r." had trans
mitted Il to Won Papen.
Check 10 Traced.
Now for the proof. direct and unes-
capable. Check l46 on the Riggs Nation
MI bank mas been traced and added to
the secret service collection. 1t is pay
able to Koenig and signed by Won Papen
Therefore Won Papen stands convicted
on the evidence Of report claimed al
an Official document by the Germans. OF
paying money to a plotter designing to
blow up merchant ships sailing from the
port of New York. The person who made
this report is known to department OF
Justice officials
Compare these documents with the fol.
lowing authorized statement from Ber-
lin, transmitted by wireless for publica-
ton in the New York Times in December
1916:
Tho German government has. nat.
urally. never knowingly accepted the sup
port OF any person. group OF persons So
ciety or organization seeking to pro-
mote the cause of Germany In the United
States by Illegal acts, by counsel OF vi
olence, by contravention of law, or by
any means whatever that could offend
the American people in the pride of theSr
own authority"
the sole interest OF Koeng's energetic
bureau. 1t concerned Itself also with
spy enterprises To Koenig wrote Otto
West, an American citizen and pro.
prietor of the Hour Glass. at 1903 (ol
1861 Fifth avenue. recommending a rela.
tive OF his who. according to his de.
scription, must be an interesting and
somewhat formidable figure Mr.. Vests
description, somewhat curtailed, follows
HE Is a grandson of the late Ober.
hofpredger Strauss of Berlin. brother
OF the present Militar Oberpfarrer straus.
OF Potsdam. nephew OF the late Admiral
Won Schleinitz,, the late General Won Man.
tey. etc. This gentleman changed his name
some twenty odd years ago to an Amer.
team name. and none OF his associates sus.
J ] poets his German birth or antecedents