The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1917-09-28
Won Bernstorff Revealed as Head
Of lntrlgues in This
Country.
spy net COVERED NATION
kalser's Representatives Paid for
Blowing Up Merchant Ships Leav-
Ing New York--lrish Revolt
Aided-other secket Ae-
tlvltles Told.

hvioNihS cApOSuTt Ol 0tr'
many's espionage and desperate activ'
lily In America Is possibly the most
startling made since the first declara.
ton Of war in August. 1914. II Is
based on official documents held by
the United States government which
have not hitherto been made available
TO the press.
tBy the CommitteesAon Public lnfor-
fnation.l
Washington, Sept. %. - Within u
few days German newspaper pub
lished in this country employed as the
headline to an article dealing with a
ruinor OF Germnn-American dlsaffec-
ton In this country the derisiye legend,
Lieb Washington, magst ruhfg seln."
This is, of course, parody on the
refrain of die Wacht am Rheln," the
German national hymn:
"Lieb' Vaterland. magst ruhig sein."
Loved fatherland, be restful Cor
undlsturbed).
| In the parody II carries sneer COM
prehensIble only to one who under
stands the German mode of speech and
thought.
Type Of German Propaganda.
or itself the instance Is slight. But
II typifies certain important phase
of the German propaganda which
subtly but persIstently seeks to pre-
sent Germany's COURSE In America In
the most favorable light, even TO the
extent of defending the improper nc
tvities OF the Teutonic diplomatic rep
resentatives before their passports
were given them.
Because Of this continuing propa-
ganda certain documents In the pos
session OF the department of justice
now assume peculiar importance, in
that they prove undeniably the init
mate relations between the accredited
representatives Of the kaiser In the
United States and plotters against the
laws and the security Of this country,
whose enterprise did not fall short OF
projected wholesale destruction of life
and property.
Curious Chapter In History Of War.
Such Of these documents as were
essential to legal proceedings brought
against the Germans have been pub
lished. Others are here made public
for the first time. TheyTorm curious,
If disjolnted chapter In the diplomatic
history OF the war
In the fall Of IDA, when the Ger
man plots against canada We're foment-
hs in lids county there was estab- |
.islird At ~ Ntl Freet an "adyert1s-
Ing Office pecspe, over by biz.
suaye Nun of Ten'onic aspect named |
Wolf Won lge.
There were tWn peculiar features
about this Office. one was that 1t was
frequented during two years'of singu-
larry quiet and uubHslnessllke exist
ence chiefly by Germans who had
nothing whatsoever TO do with adyer-
Using. The other was large safe,
bearing the insignia ofttie German Inn
perial government.
Won ISel Defies U. s. Agents.
To this Office there came one morn
ing In April, 1915. while Won Igel was
mass of papers which he
had taken from the safe for transfer
to the German embassy In Washington,
four United States secret service
agents from the department Of Justice,
who made their way past the guar
dams always on duty. put Won Igel
under arrest and undertook to seize
the papers.
The German was large, powerful
and brave. With the aid OF one asso-
ciate he stubbornlytfought the officers,
striving to rescue the papers, to close
the safe, to get to the telephone and
communicate with his superiprs. Re
volyers were drawn by the secret SER
vice pen. They produced no effect
upon the intrepid Won Igel.
"This is German territory" .he shout
ed. "Shoot me and you will bring on
war;
There was no shooting. But afterI
a protracted struggle the defenders
were overpowered and the papers
seized.
Find Proof Plot Was Laid.
When the papers were examinsd by
the department OF justice the reason
for Won Igelb determined eight be-
came apparent. Here In the form of
letters, kilograms, notations. checks
receipts. ledgers, cashhooks. cipher
codes, lists of spies, END other memo
randa and records, were found indIca-
some instances Of vaguest ma
tunre, in others of the most damning
conclusiveness-that the German i'm
perial government, through its. repre-
sentatives IN then friendly nation,
was concerned with
Violation Of laws Of the United
States.
Destruction Of lives and property in
merchant vessels on the high seas.
Irish revolutionary plots against
Great Britain.
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