The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-09-28

activities.
Some of the Plots Against U. S.
Briefly, Germany's spy plots against
! the United States, as made public by
committee on public information, are
as follows:
In the fall Of 1914, shortly after
the outbreak of the war, the Ger
man embassy established publicity
department at 60 Wall street, under
the direction of Wolf Won Igel.
+ About two years later this Office
was raided and documentary proof
! obtained that Wolf Won Igel was the
chief spy and plotter Of q vast sys-
tenn maintained in the United
States under Ambassador Won Bern
storff's general direction.
Paul Koenig pretending to con-
duct the secret service of the Ham,
burg-American Steamship company
from a New York office, was discOv.
cred to be in reality one of the di-
rectors of the German spy system
in the United States: He is now in
termed at Fort Oglethorpe, In Won
Bernstortf's code he was known as
xxx"
In report by Koenig to his boss,
Captain Won Papen of the German en-
bassy, Koenig describes an agent
who has made bombs to resemble
Jumps of coal to be placed on board
merchantmen sailing from New
York for the purpose of blowing
them up while at sea.
James f. J. Archibald, magazine
writer and war correspondent, ac-
knOWledged receipt of $4,000 from the
German embassy for propaganda work.
Edwin Emerson, another correspond
ent got $1,000.
John Dewey of New York city, pro-
fessiOnal Irish patriot, and now editor
of the Gaelic-American, was the active
agent of Germany in this country in
promoting the recent revolution in Ire
land. He was the gO-between for
BernstOrff and Sir Roger Easement,
executed for treason by the British
government. Dewey handled a check
for $1,000 from the German embassy
for Easement.
Daniel f. Cohalan, justice of the
New York supreme court, asked the
German embassy to telegraph to Berlin
advice on the Irish revolution, as ''the
services of this revolution may decide
the war;"
The Chicago branch of the German
and Austro-Hungarian Labor Informa-
ton and Relief bureau was active in
promoting labor disorder. DR.. Max
Niven Of Chicago received $50 for the
Tabor fund"
Completeness of the German spy
system was due to loyalty to the kaiser
of Americans of German extraction
who were willing to betray the coun-
try Of their adoption
Canada was also the object of Ger
man conspirators operating in the
United States under the direction Of
the German embassy. There were I'M
successful plots to destroy. the Welland
canal and to accomplish the separa-
ton of Canada from the British en-
pire.
G. S. Viereck, editor of the Father
land, now changed in title (but not in
purpose) to Viereck's Weekly, offered
help in supplying picric acid, a con-
stituent Of many high explosives.
William J. Ruff of Quincy, ILL.,, want
ed to help "save lives" by providing
the Germans with a device to blow up
trenches and destroy ships.
Ray Beveridge, California artist, re-
ceived $4,000 from the German en-
bassy for a pro-German lecture tour,
masquerading in part as Red Cross
feature.
BernstOrff's staff was busy also with
promoting the transportation of NUM-
lions through Holland, supposedly
neutral.
Wolf Won Igel's spy system produced
a secret code message April II, 1916,
to this effect: Herewith respectfully
send an extract regarding troops sta
toned in California and the armament
of the cost fort Notifications"
More DuplIcity is Shown.
How Germany "shamefully abused
and exploited" the protection of the
United States by secreting in the Ger
man legation at Bucharest, after the
American government had taken
charge of Germany's affairs at the
Roumanian, capital quantities of pow
erful explosives for bomb plots and
deadly microbes, with instructions for
their use in destroying horses and cat
tie, was revealed by Secretary Lansing.
The latest story is told in report
to the state department from William
Whiting Andrews, secretary Of the le-
CATION at Bucharest and a letter from
Foreign Minister Porombaru of Rou-
mania.