Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-09-23
bolf vo1l 1gle's Records Re- veal German Conspira- cies in U. $. 
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k.uments Connect Imperial GOvern- |,,unt. Thru yon BernstOrff, with Murder on Seas and Labor Troubles in America.

Washington, sept. zz.-r UT 'ller uis-
 Dsures of far-reaching German
 opaganda, intrigue and plots in this
 untry prior to the diplomatic
 eak with Germany were made to-
 ' by the committee on public in-
 mation. In bulletin entitled
 fficial Exnose,r the committee
 otes numerous letters and extracts
 bm letters, seized by the depart
 mt of justice in April, 1916, in a
 i'd upon the New York office of
 blfe von Igle. Won Igle, in car
 jpg on his manifold pro-German
 d anti-American activities, the
 cuments show, was in constant
 pch with the German embassy and
 th Count von Bernstorff, the Ger
 n ambassador to the United States.
 Fin the form of letters, telegrams, Nations. checks, receipts. ledgers,
 1h books, cipher codes, lists of spies
 d other memoranda and records"
 committee says, "were found in- bations, in some instances of the
 guest nature, in others of the most
 Inning conclusiveness, that the krman imperial government, thru
 representatives in a then friendly
 ton,, was concerned with violation
 the laws of the United States,
 Ptruction of lives and property in
 rchant vessels on the high seas,
 sh evolutionary plots against
 eat Britain, fomenting i'll feeling atnst the United States in Mexico, bornation of American writers and cturers, financing of propaganda,
 lntenance of a spy system under
 use Of a commercial investigation
 reau, subsidizing of a bureau for E purpose of stirring up labor 9ubles in intuition plants,, the bomb |dustry and other related activities" Holland a Way Station.
 Ine committee, of which Secretar-
 Lansing, Baker and Daniels are PMoers and George Creel chairman, B lnls to say concerning Holland: Eit has long been an open secret ~ Holland is merely a way sta pn TOT shipment of contraband into Prmany. Here is official confirma- ~ rom von Igle's records which puia seem to indicate suspicious and @noential relations between the p,land commission and the German officials accredited to this 'uatry, N or a belief by the Germans st tney could not successfully get ' munitions to their own country s.s s. message. in code and with inter- .oa lesr translations, is entered as syS, and headed German Embas- <, washington, D. C., April 6, 1916- 1,ns I,ssram from Berlin by secret S"uaoout 'S ~ way for Carl Heysen," consent sale Holland BOG. o.0oO 'Sss. sSss 'cartridges) and 200 tons nl,aa; fiease get in touch with crs1 io commission. Sent with ap- "ssi " minister foreign affairs
 l, n.slgned.) ',HATZFEI lDT," : sl,nce n Hatzfeldt was .an official of German embassy.
 ss s4, tne Hamburg-American line in- the committee says an s"ocent n,. pretending agency was at ,mh' I",set the secret service of the nv nS'urs,American Steamship com ", under Paul Koenig. it's mana m J;oalne %;oaa an adjunct of the Ger A 4 automatic secret service.
 S',er dated July 20, 1915. from e,(l'. M .. one Of it's operatives, to sVO Characterised by the commit. 'rms as sn oaptain 'I ,,:, lyon Papen. !, former ,n,an military attache, tells of the nmeht 7 Of $l5O to an unnamed ner- . unuer % peculiar precautions, aftor ent. 'p'eht had made this state T :, a.S intend to cause serious dam. .. the ,s i7n, or the allies leaving ports ,ios e united States by placing bnmhs lesa M ! am making myself, on hoard
 coai o,nos a resemble ordinary Jumps em a, o,,' ana l am planning to have stesnd tnceaied in coal to be laden Mosm Msseamers of the allies" e" ,roney ,r apparently went from cor m m sn,h suarces in the United States. semau. noassy channels to Sir Roger tion tient. Several lines of commnni- atic s"s,,' oe.ween the German, ,diplo- ,nsr, ervlce and the Irish revolu- . csn., movement are indicated in o;npsured documents,,' saws the