Carrizozo outlook. [volume] (Carrizozo, N.M.) 1910-1945, 1917-07-20

number OF people In competition, ana
the man choosing the stsnographer
they wanted "a capable girl able 10
do his work and TO keep her mouth
shut had been Informed that she was
the party to choose-by other friends
OF ours. One day about five or six
weeks after she got there she Informed
us that n great packing case was being
filled up with propaganda documents
and with bills OF expense In connec'
ton with explosions In munltion plants
aud other vital and valuable things,
and was to be shipped of the follow
Ing week right straight to England on
a Swedish ship aud from there to Ger
many.
Won Papen Filrts.
"The only thing we could possibly do
was to identify the package. One Aay
when they were about to close The
package up this girl, under lnstruc-
tions-nnd I may say incidentally she
Is now back nj work getting her SIG a
week-sat on this box eating her lunch.
Nearly everybody else had gone, but
Won papen, rather debonnlr and o n
OF ladies', wandered In and sat on the
packing box and asked II he could
share her lunch with her. She said
certainly, and while they were sharing
the sandwiches he made some senu-
mental advances and she In rather a
dreamy way took out n large red pencil
and drew two big red hearts on this
packing case. II WA Captain Won Pa
pen himself who put an arrow through
them. And, ladies and gentlemen,
when the ship Austrlns ii reached Fal-
mouth they picked that package OUT OF
the hold from about n hundred and hf'
ty others and identified II by the W
big red hearts. And yet they say there
are no brilliant people but the Ger
mans
"Another incident, the loss OF II port
folio belonging to DR.. Heinrich Albert,
nm Austrian official. which contained
papers relating to Ambassador DUN
ba's efforts TO lncite labor troubles In
the United States, created quite n stir
among the diplomats. Mr.. Rathom told
OF how n journal reporter got the pa
pers us the result of which Dumbn was
sent back to Austria by the president
"'One OF the Journal reporters had
been shadowlng Doctor Albert In New
York, but for months nothing seemed
wrong. One dry he went Into a lenther
goods store, where he ordered q port
folio and gave the salesman instruc'
lions to put his initials on II. The re-
porter, as soon as Albert had gone out,
walked up to the salesman and ordered
another portfolio OF the same kind.
"'A day or two later Albert, carry
Ing the new portfolio, was followed
from the front of his apartments by
the Journal man. Albert boarded m
elevated train. lie placed his bng con
/, tanning papers on the seat beside him
Suddenly he was stirred by IL fight IL
the front Of the car. AS he stood VI
to see what the trouble was, MS die
nearly everybody else In the cur, the
portfolios were changed. This hap
{ pened on n Saturday morning. Albert
I'm Il statement later, said that he dis
covered the trick the same day, bu
we know for n fact that he did not dis
cover the difference until Monda!
: morning. Needless to say, the men VIII
were fighting on the street car wer'
: also In the employ OF the Journal
l at M through the journal, MI
Rnthom said, that n great quantity o
y important papers were secured frot
: Wolf Won Igel. These papers revenle'
the easement plot for the Irish uprl'
ing. When the papers were taken, Nj
! Rnthom snid. In illustrating his poin
Q that there Is n certain amount of ST.
u pidity In all German dlplomatlsts, Vo
7 Rcrnstorff made application to tn
state department TO have them r.
!, turned. lie was told that any paper !
u could Identify would be returned
y, him. and then realized how he ha
y committed himself In asking that Il
/, papers be returned.
awe have not printed one-hftleth
whit we secured, but we were vel
@. glad. wien events turned, 20 turn u
Of key on the snfe In which II Is deposl
W ed and forget the balance, because Il
W work we tried to do has been nccoI
n pllshed,'"