Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-10-11
A COLUMN OF CLIPPINGS
An Amazing Record OF Intrigue.
The Macon News says:

Will be no real occasion for anybody IN
search of thrills to read such stories 7
of intrigue and adventure as "The
Clique of Cold" or Michael strogoff,
the Courier of the Carr"
hTe revelations of treachery and
conspiracy which went on underneath
the service during the regime Of the
Gar furnish in plain facts simply stat
ed, as stirring a series of enthralling
dramas as were ever written by the
most lurid novelists
Documents found in the archives of
the Gar at Tsarkeo Selo, showing up
the aiser and the Russian ruler as
arch-conspirators against Great Brit
ain at time when they were posing
as England's dearest friends and we'll
wishers have been the sensation Of
two continents for several wetks, and
have branded the Kaiser as one of
the most depraved scoundrels that
ever sat upon throne.
But the series OF exposures have not
ended here. Information brought back
from Russia by Herman Bernstein, OF
the New York Herald, has confirmed
the fact that Henry Fords celebrated
peace junket was inaugurated by Ger
many, through the cunning instrument
! tally of Rosika Schwimmer, whose ac-
tivities in this country in 1915 are
well remembered 1t was also she
who suggested this peace voyage to-
poor, deluded Henry Ford, and Mr..
Bernstein, who was one of tn eparty,
testifies that it was pathetic" to see
Ford, the idealist, when he realized
that he had been tricked by the Aus
trian adventures.
Mrs. Schwimmer was in close touch
with a member of the Russian commits
sion to this country under the old re-
gime, and this man was himself an
agent of Germany The fact is now
brought out that he was in constant
communication with German and Aus
trian agents who blew up ships carry
ing supplies and ammunition to Russia.
| He rejected the output of factories
when as matter of fact it was not de-
! fective. He cynically avowed to one
of his reluctant tools that the Rus
sian empress was in sympathy with
the Germans and that the government
in Petrograd did not want the Ger
mans to lose the war.
Pathetic" indeed is the word to ap-
ply to Ford How pitiful it all seems,
as we look back upon it, to recall
his merry assurance that he was go
ing to "get the boys out of the trenches
by Christmas, while all Germany was
laughing in its sleeve at his childlike
innocence.
And how much more pathetic it is
to think Of the smooth Col Nekrasoff,
accepted everywhere as the commits
sioner of Russia in this country
which in fact he was-and regarded as
a sincere friend of the Allies when he
1Sas in almost hourly communication
with Germany, selling the secrets of
his mission and booming hundreds y
thousands of his fellow countrymen 1
death for lack of ammunition.
If Germany had had anything 70
lose, morally, these recent revelations
would have damned her for all time
70 come in the eyes of every honest
man, while the tools she used are even
more contemplate.
Stuermer, the most despicable of the
German agents in Russia, has already
died in prison, and the old regime in
Russia, had one military officer shot
before he could tell all he knew. But
fortunately there are scores of these
spies and conspirators still alive, and
il is not hard to guess the fate that
awaits them