The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1917-09-28

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The following refsrencs to Supreme
Court Justice Daniel ,. Cohalan q
New York ID contained. the coonitts0
states, In . letter found IN IL Won
Igea papers IN cipher with interlineaf
translation. dated New York. April II.
1915. Numbered $3.50 and Inscribed as
the top very secret
Judge Cohalan requests the traAo-
mission Of the following remarks:
I The revelation in ireland can only
b successful IL supported nom Ger
many; otherwise England win Be able
to ssppress II. even though Il be only
after hard struggle. Therefore help y
necessary This should consist pri-
MARTY Of AERIAL attack in England and
q diversion Of the fleet simultaneously
with Irish revolution. Then, II pos
sible. landing Of troops. arms and
ammunition in Ireland, and possibly
some officers from Zeppelins. This
would enable the Irish ports to be
closed against England and the estab-
lishment Of stations for submarines ON
the Irish coast and the cutting Off Of
the supply Of food for England. Tho
services of the revolution may there
fore decide the war
He asks that telegram to this e.
feet be sent to Berlin"
This letter was signed "5132 o1e7
0230" and was addressed to Count
Won Bernstorff. Imperial ambassador.
Warrington. D. c."
Code Message.
A code message sent to Berlin was
given a. follows:
National Germania insurance con-
tract certainly promised. Executor il
evidently Satisfied with proposition.
Necessary steps have been taken.
HENRY NEWMAN"
or this message the committee has
this to say:
Not SO innocent and harmless 40 Il
looks, for what the message really
means is this: Irish agree to PROPOSE
ton. The necessary steps have been
taken
Information carefully and extern
sively set forth in the secret document
Of the German officialdom, was some
times wide Of the facts. For example,
a lengthy memorandum OF March II,
1916. transmitted by the secret agent.
Captain Boehm. dealing with the Mex
lean crisis, appears to have been
largely the work Of some fervid and
protective imagination.
1T predicts that the President will
attribute Mexico's anti-American ac-
tivities to German money and incite-
ment; that he will call upon Congress
to support him in radical measures
1.-THE prophet even attempts to para
phrase the language to be employed
In the message): that Congress will
endorse the Presidents stand, follow
ing which upward Of $50 German
spies and agents were to be arrested
and the ambassadors OF the central
powers to receive their passports"
After citing an extract from Captain
Boehm's letter. the committee states
that he was too loose of tongue" for
the good Of service and, citing q re-
port of the German military informa-
ton bureau Of March n, 1916, quotes
the report as follows:
TOO great confidence in the silence
of his fellow men, especially the men,
bers OF the American Truth Society
was probably the cause OF his
becoming quickly known here"
The committees statement con-
tinues:
Society. which 20 strenuously denied
its roGerman associations. figures
a. indirectly linked up with Germany's
secret representative, This society
d still extant and Jeremiah A.
oLeary. its moving spirit, il now the
editor Of Bull" recently shut out Of
the mails for publishing seditious mat.
ter"
Many investors, the committee
states the seized papers show, are
represented az having plans involving
use Of devices of destruction. One
entry IL cited as follows:
"'June Is, 1915. Sender. G. 8. vier-
rex. Contents, inquiry a. to bombs;
supply offer. Told to send further de-
tails
Possibly the further Details" the
statement continues, ARE indicated in
another entry Of four months later:
Sender, Vierreck. Contents, offer
Of picric acid
"Picric acid is constituent Of many
high explosives"
An entry entitled pure war ex-
penses" from the Won Igel paper IL
made public by the committee as fol.
lows:
Edward Emerson, $1,000.
Fair Play (Mr. Braun), $4,000.
Fair Play (Mr. Braun, $500.
Marcus Braun, $1,000.
u. Archibald, $4,000"
The statement continues:
Concerning the identity Of the last
entry, there might be room for doubt,
but for q signed receipt from J. F. ].
Archibald, acknowledging the sum Of