Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-09-25

| signature which remains untranslated
from the original cipher figures. 1t is
dated New York. April Il. 1916. number
ed SS5-I6, and inscribed at the top Very
Secret"
NO. 335-16.
| Very secret
i New York. April Il. 1916.-Judge Co
halan requests the transmission of the
| following remarks:
The revolution i'm ireland can only
| be successful if supported from Germa-
ny. otherwise England will be able to
suppress lie. even though IT be only after
hard struggles Therefore help is nee
| essary This should consist. primarily.
| of aerial attacks i'm England and a diver
/ sion of the fleet simultaneously with
| Irish revolution. Then. If possible, a
| landing OF troops. arms and ammunition
| i'm Ireland and possibly some officers
! from Zeppelins. This would enable the
/ Irish ports 10 be closed against England
and the establishment of stations for
submarines on the Irish coast and the
cutting off Of the supply of food for
England. The services of the revolu-
| ton may therefore decide the war
He asks that telegram to this eff
| feet be sent to Berlin.
"5132 S167 O2SO
ITO His Excellency
Count Won Bernstroff
Imperial Ambassador,
| Washington, ID. c."
Along this same line is a code mes
sage by wireless to Banker Max Moe
| bus Oberwallstrasse, Berlin, which Is
| interesting chiefly as showing the code
method of important communications
practiced by the German official plotters
| in this country The code translation
was found with the copy of the mes
sage among Won Igers papers. The
original is a German dispatch which,
being translated into English, sounds
like an innocent business transaction.
viz:
| National Germania Insurance con-
tract certainly promised. Executor is
evidently satisfied with proposition.
| Necessary steps have been taken
| HENRY NEUMAN."
Not so innocent and harmless as 1t
looks, for what the message really
means is this:
Irish agree to proposition. The. nec-
essary steps have been taken"
Several lines or communication between
the German diplomatic service and the
Irish revolutionary movement are indi-
Gated in the captured documents. John
Dewey. of New York City, now editor
of the Gaelic American, a violently
anti-British paper was one of the active
! agents of this connection. Significant
entries appear here and there: refer
ences to messages for the German en-
bassy at Washington and the German
consulate at New York; mention of
secret code to be employed in communi-
eating with him and of a "cipher De-
voy"; also a notation, the details of
which remain undiscovered concern
ing communication re manufacture hand
grenadeS" Dewey II was who acted,
for a time at least, as go-between for
the German sercret service dealing with
Sir Roger easement, executed by the
British for treason. There are several
references to money and messages for
Sir Roger Easement, or, more briefly,
"R. c." and one record of check for
81. 900 for Easement, evidently handled
by Dewey.
LETTERS TO BERNSTORFF.
Devoys intimate Connection with the
German cause is disclosed in two let
tiers to Ambassador Won Bernstorff. the
texts of which follow:
New York, April s, 1916.
The following communication from
confidential man John Dewey was duly
transmitted.
Letter dated March %, delayed by
censor, seems conclusive that first mes
senger arrived safe with proposal to
send supplies and that cable was sup
pressed. Second also safe. Third,
with change of plans, due about April
10"
John Dewey further requests that the
following telegram be dispatched to
Sir Roger Easement:
mo letter now possible. All funds
sent home. Sister and MS family we'll"
Should Sir Roger be absent or i'll,
then ]. d. requests that the telegram
be delivered to John Montieth.
(Signed) X. N. st.
To His Excellency,
the Imperial Ambassador.
Count Won Bernstorff,
Washington. ID. c.
New York, April 10, 1916.
Herewith enclosed a report re-
ceived by us today from John Dewey.
Kindly order further steps to be taken.
The important parts of the report
were sent there today per telegram.
Is. copy.)
.(signed) KN. ST.
To the Imperial Ambassador.
Count Won Bernstorff.
Washington. d. c.
In view of the involvement of these
prominent Irish-American leaders in the
Easement plot and it's German ramifi-
cations. 1t is little to be wondered at
that they should have endeavored to
shoulder upon the American government
the responsibility for the arrest of Case
ment. The Gaelic American, Devoy's pa
per, and the sympathetic German-Ameri-
can press charged this government with
having, on the strength of information
obtained from the seized Won Igel pa
pers, advised the British government Of
the revolutionary plot and Easements
part therein.
The department of state and the de-
partment of justice promptly refuted
the charges. When the Won Igel papers
were seized in New York the district at
torney and his assistants busted them
selves in a search for information to
sustain the indictments which they had
obtained against Won Igel, and overlooked
for the time being the great mass of
other evidence which pointed incriml-
natingly to others.
Canada was also the object Of solic-
like Il Bon at SO