Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1917-10-03


Through Dewey at least one check for
$1,000 was sent to Sir Roger Case
ment.
Daniel F. Cohalan, Supreme court
justice of New York, is shown In a
Won Igel cipher message as urging
German support for the Irish reVoiu-
ton.
George Sylvester Viereck, editor of
The Fatherland, rabid pro-German
weekly published in New York city, is
noted in the German records as send
ing inquiries as to bombs and picric
acid, Viereck is still conducting his
paper, having changed its name to Vie
reck's Weekly since the United States
entered the war.
James f. J. Archibald. the magazine
writer, In whose possession the Brit
ish government discovered official cor
respondence between Won Bernstorf
and Berlin, is shown in one Of the pa
pers seized to have acknowledged re-
ceipt of $1,000. Edwin Emerson, an
other writer, got $1,000 from Won Igel.
Ray Beveridge, a California artist,
and sister of Kuehne Beveridge, the
sculptor, is shown to have received
$4,000 Of German propaganda money.
Astounding additional revelations
of Count Won Bernstorff's direction of
German plots in the United States
has made it certain congress will IN
dertake a thorough investigation.
Lansing Absolves Congress.
To clear congress Immediately of
any suspicion which the state de-
partment's revelation may have direct
ed unwittingly at its members, Secre-
tary Lansing dictated the following
statement:
"If there is any misunderstanding,
1 shall say emphatically l do not see
how the BernStorff message in any
way reflects upon congress or any
member. Apparently it was 2he pur-
pose to employ agencies to influence
them, of which they would have no
knowledge, and in case they were in
fuenced would be entirely innocent.
do not know what the organization
was. This expose is apropOs of Ger
man methods of peace propaganda and
there Is no intention Of casting suspi-
cion on members of congress"
Find Lists of Spies.
When Won IgeFs papers were examined by
the department of justice the reason for
Won IgePs determined fight became APP
parent. Here. in the form of letters.
kilograms, nOtations. checks, receipts,
| ledgers, cashbooks, cipher codes, lists
of spies. and other memoranda and rec
ords were found indications-in some
| instances of the vaguest nature. in
others of the most damning conclusive
ness-that the German imperial gov
eminent, through it's representatives in
| a then friendly nation. was concerned
with:
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.
Fomenting i'll feeling against the
United States in Mexico.
Subornation of American writer's and
| lecturers.
Financing of propaganda.
Maintenance of a spy system under
| the guise of a commercial investiga-
| ton bureau.
Substituting of bureau for the pur
| pose of stirring up labor troubles in
The bomb industry and other related
| activities.
Koenig-Von Papen Commerce Bureau.
Perhaps the most Illuminating single
| document in the collection is letter Of
July 20. 1915, reproduced as it ap-
pelred upon the stationery of the Blu
| reau of Investigation" This innocent
| pretending agency was at the outset
| the secret service of the Hamburg
| American Steamship company Under
| Paul Koenig, its manager, 1t became an
| adjunct to the German diplomatic secret
| service. xxx" is the secret designa-
| ton of Koenig. who is now under in
| dictments on criminal charges in con-
| nection with this diplomatic" work,
| and is interned at Fort Oglethorpe.
The person represented by the figure
| 1000" is Captain Won Papen, former
| military attache of the German en-
| bassy and the practical executive of its
| underground system. The document de-
| scribes the subterfuges of xxx (Koe-
nig) so that he might not be identified
| by the mysterious - when they met
| Xxx" states that money was to be
| drawn for the payment Of $3.50 to the
unnamed person, under peculiar precau-
| tons through Check No. LAG on the
| Riggs National bank, Washington,
| dated July 16. payable to
| signed amount $3.50. No rea-
| son was given as to why the payment
| was made. says the report.
Bombs in Coal.
| Several days after the payment, the
recipient called ct the passenger Of
| fee of the - line" and made state
ment which is thus embodied in the
| xxx report.
my name is -. have an office
| at the building, but do not care
| to state my local address. l intend to
| cause serious damage to vessels of the
| allies leaving ports of the United States
| by placing bombs. which 1 am making
myself on board. These bombs re-
| semble ordinary Jumps of coal, and I
| am planning to have them concealed in
| the coal to be laden on steamers of
| the allies.
Finally xxx states that 1.-The caller"
| brought with him a sample bomb,
| such as has been described to you by
| the subscriber" and asks for the in
structions.
| The document is lettered at the foot
| 20. r. to 1000" indicating that the Sc