The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-23

to its value, since 1t received In all $45eC | In the course of a few months In 1915 1 Marcus Braun, who appears as it's edi' ! tor, Is known as a political leader among 1 the Hungarians of lower Second avenue
 in New York, and has been variousl,
 connected With the fringes of the pub
 lication world He is supposed himsel l to be a Hungarian. His associate il 1 Fair Play was one J. P. Bryan.
 Even with such liberal supper
 Fair Play did not fill the bill, fo
 in January, 1916. a letter was writer by F. Schroeder, German newspape 1 correspondent in Tokio, to the German | diplomatic Representatives lamentina
 the lack of a genuinely influentia,
 weekly in New York devoted to leu | tonic interests, and suggesting that | one Borsodi might be the right mar
 to conduct such publication. Frequent hints of George Sylvester 1 Vierecks Journalistic activities ap- pear and there are a few notations of i Pearson; Subject. Press" which may 1 refer to Pearson's Magazine. of which 1 the editor, Frank Harris. is strongly l pro German, or may indicate secret agent named Pearson. who is the sub - | Ject of other entries.
 | The lecture platform is represented l by Ray Beveridge, the California art i ist, and sister of Kuehne Beveridge. | the prominent SCulpLOT. III one entry | Privy Counsellor Albert acknowledges
 receipt of s3000 from the embassy to | finance Miss Beveridge's lecture tour German war pictures were also to be I furnished, though the alleged scope ] of the lectures was to be comprised | in topics allied to Red Cross work. l Other figures of more vague import | drift into light here and there in the | von Igel papers or the bureau of in- | N-l ' | ford, an old British hater. appears to have received sundry sums of money | for services specified. The follow l ing letters found in the Won Igel pa I pers refer to Colonel Woodford New York, April 1, 1916. | His ExceIency. MT. Won Igel, New | York. N. Y.:
 | According to a letter received here today the imperial embassy is of the same opinion as myself-that money should not be paid to Woodford. Please act accordingly and inform Woodford. if he should show up there again, that Berlin has received the letter regarding the sum to be paid and has besides again been asked by telegraph whether money should be paid.
 Until answer is received from Der | lin, nothing more can be paid | (Signed) PRETZELL.
 Colonel Woodford appears. however, from the following letter to have re- ceived the sums promised:
 New York, April 10, 1916
 His Excel1ency MT. Von Igel: Please pay the remainder of two hundred and fifty dollars to Woodford. He is to receive $500 according to order (from Berlin).
 Please have the enclosed receipt at tested
 (Signed) P. R.
 All these. it must be remembered, are but a small portion of one Ger man agents records. They represent but one chamber. as 1t were, in an enormous and complicated maze of un derground plotting. Other entries ap- pear too vague to indicate anything more definite than some connection with or interest In enterprises already notorious-payments to the Welland canal conspiracy; correspondence with Dr. Walter Scheele. accused of being a bomb manufacturer: references to the Maverick and the Annie Larsen, blockade runners; sidelights on Japa- nese propaganda. Mexican plots and Canadian lines of secret information: even hints that officers high in the military service of the United States were being improperly used for Ger | llidu IilllltdIy clICl plloCS.
 How far the plot goes will probably never be known. The spider, Won Igel, had scuttled away to his own refuge in Germany. His nest is de stroyed. But the strands of the web that he wove may still stretch over the city or town which you who read this inhabit.
 It has long been an open secret that Holland is merely a way station for chJ Jrr,, nv,f, Nf hox, t,%0 ~ many. Here Is official confirmation from the Won Igel records. which would seem to indicate a suspicious and con fidential relation between the "Hol- land commission" and the German dip- lomatic officials accredited to this country, or possibly belief by the Germans that they could not success fully get the munitions to their own country. The message in code, with interlinear translation. is entered as "A 2493" and headed German Elm. bassy. Washington. D. C.. April 6, 1916." It runs as follows:
 Telegram from Berlin by secret, roundabout way for Carl Heysen: Con- sent sale Holland three hundred thou sand chests (cartridges) and two hun dred tons powder. Please get in touch with Holland commission. Sender. war minister, foreign office. in representa-, tion.
 (Signed) HATZFELDT."
 While chiefly concerned with mill tary affairs in Europe. the representa- tives of supposedly friendly nation were keeping an interested watch on our own activities in that line A se- cret code message of April Ii. 1916, signed '.1s232 46729 4e91s." addressed Won Igel to this effect:
 Herewith respectfully send an ex- tract regarding the troops stationed in California and the armament of the coast Notifications"