Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-09-23

EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS.
In bulletin styled Official expose"
the committee quotes numerous let
ters and extracts from letters seized
by the Department of Justice in April,
1916, in raid upon the New York
office of Wolfe Won Igel. Won Igel,
in carrying on his manifold pro- Ger
man and anti-American activities, the
documents show. was in constant
touch with the German embassy and
with Count Won Bernstorff. German
ambassador to the United States.
I'm the form of letters, telegram,
notations, checks, receipts, registers,
cash books, cipher codes, lists Of spies
and other memoranda and records"
the committee says, were found in
dications-in some instances of the
vaguest nature, in other Of the most
damning conclusiveness - that the
German imperial government through
its representatives in a then friendly
nation was concerned with
PLOTS ARE DETAILED. 4
"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. w..
"Fomenting i'll feeling against the
United States in Mexico.
"Subornation Of American writer's
and lecturers.
Financing of propaganda.
Maintenance OF spy system un-
der the guise OF a commercial investi-
CATION bureau. H.. 4 '..-
"Subsidixing Of a bureau for the
purpose of stirring up labor troubles
in munition plants.
"The bomb industry and other re-
lated activities"
Holland Way-Station to Germany.
The committee, of which Secre-
taries Lansing, Baker and Daniels are
members, and George Creel, chair
man, has this to say concerning Hol-
lapl;
"It has long been an open secret
that Holland is merely a way station
for shipments of contraband into
Germany. There is official confirma-
tion from the Won Igel records which
would seem to indicate a suspicious
and confidential relation between the
Holland commission and the Ger
man diplomatic officials accredited to
this country, or possibly a belief by
the Germans that they could not sue
cessfully get the munitions to their
own country. The message in code
with interlinear translations is EN-
tered as "A 24o3' and headed Ger.
man embassy, Washington, D. C..
April 70, 1916 1t runs as follows:
Telegram from Berlin by secret
roundabout way for Carl Heysen
Consent sale Holland three hundred.
thousand chests (cartridges) and tive
hundred tons powder Please get If
touch with Holland commission
Sender war minister, foreign Office
in representation. 1E
(Signed} 'HATZFELDT."
Prince Hatzfeldt was an official oi
the German embassy. ..Y
Sent Bombs in Coal.
me hanourg-Amerlcan lines bu.
reau of investigation. the committe.
states, an innocent pretending agen.
cy," was at the outset the secret serv.
ice of the Hamburg American Steam.
ship company. Under Paul Koenig
its manager, it became an adjunct of
the German diplomatic secret service.
A letter dated July 20, 1915, from
%. r." one OF its operatives. 70
1000 characterized by the commit
tee as Captain Won Papen. former
German military attacte) tells of the
payment of $50 to all unnamed per-
son, under peculiar precautions, after
the recipient had made this state-
ment:
Il intend to cause serious damage
to vessels of the allies leaving ports
of the United States BY placing
bombs, which | am making myself,