The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-09-23

most part French and Irish Cana
dams. u" 80 I am in daily connection |
with one of the leading men in the !
separation movement, Hon. j. Han
Kelly, who is member of the Legis- /
lative Council of the Province of Que
bee and also a member of the Gov
eminent"
CAPTAIN BOEHM'S FACTS
WE'RE WIDE OF MARK
Information carefully and extern
sively set forth in the secret docu-
m ants of the German offlcialdom was
som etimes wide of the facts. For ex-
ample. a lengthy memorandum or
March /, 1915. transmitted by the
secret agent. Capt. Boehm, dealing
with the Mexican crisis, appears to
have been largely the work of some
fervid and protective imagination
The memorandum purports TO outline
: President wilson's expected mesasge
to Congress 1t predicts that the
President will attribute Mexico's anti
American activities direct to German
money and Indictment; that he will
call upon Congress to support him in
| radical measures tthe prophet even
attempts to paraphrase the language
I to be employed in the MESSAGE mat
! Congress will indorse the Presidents
| stand. following which upward or iop
| German spies and agents provoca-
tours were to be arrested and the am
| hasa doris Of the central powers to
( receive their passports.
: For all this Capt. Boehms author
! ity is thus indicated over his own
signature:
The foregoing memorandum was
! just given 10 me hv an acquaintance
returning from washington. The &C
] quaintance is r skillful Journalist
who has good connections. can not
vouch for hts reliability. but ! know
that he hates the present adn1inistra-
! ton and fights H. His informant Is
n former secretary of the American
EN- bassy at Rome now in Washing
ton"
/ Cant. Boehm himself wac too loose
! Of tongue for the good of his service.
| II would appear from report OF the
German military Information bureau
dated March 81. 1915.
/ Cart Roehm decided to leave after
reports received here were submitted
to him to the effect that members OF
! the press were informed as to his
personality and the PURGE of his he
! ing here. Too great confidence in the
| silence Of his fellow men. especia ily
the members Of the American Truth
society. was probably ga Use
| Of his becoming quickly known here.
So the notorious American
! Truth society which so strenu-
ousiy denied its pro-Gerrnan as
i sociations. figures as indirectly
linked up with Germany's secret
representatives This society IL
] still extant. and Jeremiah \.
J OTeary. its moving spirit. Ia now
! the editor Of Bull. recently shut
| ont of the mails Tor publishing
seditious matter.
MANY inventors some OF them OBJ
| viously cranISN, are represented either
| by correspondence or notation as hav-
! ing plans involving the use OF suudry
! devices or destruction. One entry OF
the sort merits special attention be
| cause Of the notoriety. Of the indivi
dual involved. Here II is. translated
/ from the German record OF CORES
yIERFCK DESCRIBES
AS 4 HIGH EXPLOSIVE
| 3'June fS..fafs. Sender. @. &. vfer-
! eek Contents. injury as to bonn hs;
supply offer. Told to send further de-
I tails"
/ iieAted in another entry Of four
/ Ser der viereck Contents. offer
| Of pieric acid
| Picric acid Is a constituent of many
! high explosives Mr. Viereck In some
thing Of a high explosive himself hav-
ing been editor Of the viruiently pro-
/ German weekly Tatherlani. of New
/ -Ynrk. now changed iff title that rot
(. in purpose} To "Niereck's Weekly"
Just what interest Dr, l. A Dessar,
4 of rs Broad street. New York city.
/ had in German aerial warfare is a
matter for speculation
4 In the Won Irel archives appears n
! letter from r. L Scovtlie, Of Sewick
! ley, Pa. and New York City, urging
/ the merits of the Sevnple aerogrenade,
fIerl nessa evidently Forwarded @tha
letter where re thought IL would do
( the most good. wig. 10 von Hgel.
/ Carefully preserved ffor what pu~-
! pose, one can only contecture) are two
| letters written early in 1915 by T T.
! Dowlinx, OF 10T Franklin avenue.
/ Hartford, Conn, 70 Count Won BERN
/ stofY. the German am hasa dor, ex-
planning a little plan of the writer's
/ TO get rooms near various munitions
factories and blow them up. SrAci-
fcaNy. he expressed willing nesS to de-
stroy the scoville Manufacturing Co
and the Chase Mills, of Waterviie
/ Conn: the Remington Arms Co. and
I the Union Metallic Cartridge Co fac
torias in Bridgeport. Conn: and when
| that Was com pleted ne thought that
! he might 60 out 10 Port Huron. Mich
and blow up the Grand Trunk tunnel
near that place. As all these con-
structions are still standing, IL is obvi-
( Gus that MIR. Dowfing's plans failed
TO commend themselves to his distin-
gushed correspondent. His present
wherea bouts are not known
Other would-be destroyers OF Ger
manTs foes were less definite Family
pride was the energizing motive OF
Mr.. C.. ]. Waldron. OF Medusa n Y
who wrote that. being direct des-
cendant Of Baron Won Waidron, he
was deeply interestd in the German
cause wherefore he proffered (April
10, 1870 she'll Of his own invention;
II was not accepted.