The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-06

representatives This society IL stiu sx-
tant. and jeremiah A O'Leary, its NOV
| ing spirit, IS now the editor OF Bull, re-
| Gently shut out of the mails for publish
ing seditious matter.
Enter Viereek: George Sylvester.
Many inventors, some of them obvious
| y cranks. are represented either by cor
respondence or notation as having plans
| involving the use of sUndry devices Of
destruction One entry OF the sort ner-
| It's special attention because Of the no.
toriety of the individual involved Here
Of correspondence:
June Is. 1915. Sender. c. s VIereck.
Contents. inquiry as to bOnbs;2 supply
offer. Told to send further details
| Possibly the further details are indi-
Gated In another entry Of four months
later.
SENDER. viereck Contents. ofrer of
| picric acid
Picric acid Is q constituent OF many
/ high explosives. Mr. Viereck is some
thing of high explosive himself, having
/ been editor of the virulently pTo-German
weekly Fatherland of New York. now
| changed in title Cbut not in purpose) to
| ''Viereck's Weekly
Just what interest Dr. l. A. Dessar of
. Broad street New York city. had in
/ German aerial warfare is q matter for
| speculation
| In the Won Igel archives appears a
| letter from r L Scoville OF Sewickley,
| Pa, ana New York city urging the mer-
| its of the Semple aerogrenade. Doctor
/ Dessar evidently forwarded the letter
where he thought It would do the most
good. viz. to Won Igel
| The following curious entry appears In
| Won IgeTs records:
| Journalists, lecturers, and publishers
| were literally employed by Won Igel and
| his associates for the purposes of Ger
| man propaganda, Among those thus
| tainted with the stigma of dishonorabie
professional conduct are two magazine
| writers and war correspondents. James
| F. J. Archibald. now in Washington. and
Edwin Emerson. said to be in Africa
"Pure War Expenses
| Edward Emerson recommendation
| Fair Play CBdr. Braun) .................. 1000
| Fair Play CMr. Braun .---..-..-..-..... 800
Marcus Braun loo
| J. Archibald ....-.............-........ 5000
Concerning the identity OF the last
entry there might be room for doubt but
| for a signed receipt from J. F. J Arch
/ fbald acknowledging the sum Of $. 900
/ from the German embassy for propa-
ganda work What return Archibald
| ever made in service is not clear, except
/ that certain war correspondence for
/ which he contracted with New York
/ on the side of the central powers that
/ they declined to accept It
That Emerson also overdid the cause
/ to which he sold his pen and his profes-
| sionaI honor (the record indicates that
| he was paid $1,000 for travelling ex-
/ penses') is suggested by the fact that
he was expelled. or alleged to have been
| expelled. from Berlin for q violent at
/ tack upon Ambassador Gerard Emerson
has had a picturesque career in many
/ parts OF the world. and once cabled to
New York newspaper a picturesque but
| imaginative account OF his own death in
| the far East under painful and inter
| esting conditions He was born in Ores
| oen' or American parents, and is now
| travelling under American passport OBJ
| talned by false representations
Fair Play Well Paid
/ Fair Play" that misnamed organ Of
/ Teutonic inspiration appears to have
| been subsidized quite disproportionateIy
/ TO its value, since it received in all a.,
| go In the course Of q few months in
| lSl5- Marcus Braun, who appears as
| Its editor, is known as a political leader
/ among the Hungarians OF lower Second
| avenue. in New York, and has been
! vartously connected with the fringes of
/ the publication world He is supposed
| himself to be Hungarian His asso-
| ciate in Fair Play was one J P. Bryan
Even with such liberal support Fair
| Play" did not fill the bill. for in Janu-
| airy, 1916. a letter was written by T.
/ Schroeder, a German newspaper CORE
| spondent in Toxic. to the German dipIo-
! matte representatives lamenting the
lack of a genuinely influential weekly
| IN New York devoted to TeutOnic inter
| ests. and suggesting that one Borsodi
| might be the right man to conduct such
/ a publication
Viereck and Others.
Frequent hints of George Sylvester
| Viereci1's journalistic activities appear.
/ and there are a few notations OF Pear
/ son: Subject. Press" which may refer
/ to Pearson's Magazine. of which the
editor. Frank Harris. is strongly pro-
| German. or may indicate a secret agent
named Pearson. who is the subjet OF
| The lecture platform is represented
| by Ray Beverage. the California artist.
| and sister of Ruehne Beveridge. the
/ prominent sculptor. In one entry Privy
| Councillor Albert Acknowledges receipt
/ of $4,000 from the embassy to finance
| Miss Beveridge's lecture tour. German
war pictures were also to be furnished.
| though the alleged scope of the lectures
| was to be comprised in topics allied to
Red Cross work
Other figures Of more vague import
! drift into light here and there in the
Won Igel papers or the bureau of in
/ ford an old British hater. appears to
| have received sundry sums OF money
| for service unspecified- The following
/ letters found in the Won IgeI papers re-
fer to Colonel Woodford-
Holland . Way Station.
1t has long been an open secret that
Holland is merely a way station for
/ shipments Of contraband into Germany
Here is official confirmation from the
Won IgeI records. which would seem to
| indicate q suspicious and confidential
relation between the Holland commits
sion and the German diplomatic an
| Gals accredited to this country. or POS
sibIy belief by the Germans that they
could not successfully get the NUM-
/ lions to their own country. The mes
sage in code, with interlinear transla-
| ton is entered as "a 24e3" and headed
| German Embassy, Washington, D. C.
/ April 8. 1916" It runs as follows:
Telegram from Berlin by secret
roundabout way for Carl Heysen- Con-
sent sale Holland SOC. 900 chests Gear
| tridges) and 200 tons powder Please
/ get in touch with Holland commission
Sender war minister foreign Office in
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