Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-09-28
PAPERS SEIZED IN U. s. EXPOSE
ORDERS FROM KAISER
TO PLoTTERs.
PLAN IRISH REBELLION
DUPLlclTY, SPYING, DEsTRUc-
TON OF LIFE AND PROPERTY,
AIMS OF sERNsToREF
BUREAUS.
western Newspaper Union News Service.

closures Of far-reaching German prop
uganda, intrigues and plots In this
country prior to the diplomatic break
with Germany were made Saturday by
the committee IN public information.
In a bulletin styled official expose"
the committee quotes numerous letters
and extracts from letters seized by the
Department of Justice in April, 1916,
IL a raid upon the New York office Of
Wolf Won Igel. Won Igel in carrying
on his manifold pro-German 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.
in the form of letters, kilograms,
notations, checks, receipts, registers,
cash books, cipher codes, lists OF spies
and other memoranda and records"
the committee says, were found indi-
cations-in some instances of the
vaguest nature, in others of the most
damning conclusiveness-that the
German imperial government, through
its 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 ill-feeling against the
United States in Mexico.
"Subornation of American writer's
and lecturers.
Enhancing of propaganda.
Maintenance of a spy system un
der the guise Of a commercial inves-
tigation bureau.
"Subsidizing of a bureau for the pur-
pose of stirring up labor troubles in
munition plants.
"The bomb industry and other re
lated activities"
The committee, of which Secreta.
ries Lansing, Baker and Daniels are
members, and George Creel, chair
man, has this to say concerning Hol'
land:
1T has long been an open secret
that Holland is merely a way-station
for shipments of c%ontraband into
Germany. Here is official confirma'
ton from the Won Igel records, which
would seem to indicate a suspicious
and confidential relation between the
Holland Commission and the German
diplomatic officials accredited to this
country, or possibly a belief by the
Germans that they could not success
fully get munitions to their own coun
try. A message in code with interline
airy translation is entered as 'a2493
and headed German Embassy, Wash
ington, D. c., April 6, 1916
1t runs as follows:
Telegram from Berlin by secre'
roundabout way for Carl Heysen.
Consent sale Holland three hundred
thousand chests (cartridges) and two
hundred tons powder. Please get il
touch with Holland Commission
Sender, War Minister, Foreign OF
flee, in representation. Signed: HAITI
feldt.'"
Prince Hatfield was an official o
the German embassy.
The Hamburg American lines bu
reau of investigation, the committed
states, an "innocent-pretending agen
cy," was at the outset the secret serv
ice of the Hamburg American Steam
ship Company under Paul Koenig, thu
manager, 1t became an adjunct of th'
German diplomatic secret service. 4
Letter dated July 20, 1915, from 20. r.
Zone of its operatives) to 1000" (chaT
acterized by the committee as cap
tain Won Papen," former German mill
tary attache), tells of the payment o
$3.50 to an unnamed person, under pc
culiar precautions, after the recipien
had made this statement:
II intend to cause serious damage
to vessels Of the allies leaving port
OF the United States by placing bombs
which | am making myself, on board
These bombs resemble ordinary lump
of coal and l am planning to havl
them concealed in the coal to be lad
ened on steamers of the allies"
Money apparently went from Ger
man sources in the United State
through embassy channels to 81
Roger Easement, the Irishman execut
ed in London.
Lines Of Communication.
Several lines Of communication be
tween the German diplomatic servic.
and the Irish revolutionary movemen
are indicated in the captured docu
ments," the statement continues
John Dewey Of New York, now ed
tor of the Gaelic American, a violent
ly anti-British paper, was one of tn
active agents Of this connection. Sic
nificant entries appear here and there