Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-10-04

Astounding additional revelations
of cotnt Won Bernstorff's direction OF
German plots In the United States
made it certain congress Will uhder
take a thorough Investigation
The investigation will be called as
soon as the state department gives
the congressional leaders the word.
The disclosures. giving names on
Count Won Bernstorff's pay roll, specl-
fyine amounts. setting forth detalis OF
plans to bomb inunition plants ana
blow up shipping. to spread GerH''h
propaganda and to foment the irish
rebellion. were issued through the com
mittee on public Information Inc
facts and figures made official WASH
ington dizzy with. amazenent at me
holiness of the game played by the
German embassy
List of Persons Involved.
The list of weIi-known persons VINO
nre alleged to have come under the
Influence of Count yon BernstofH as
given in the disclosures includes;
Justice Daniel r. cohaian of the New
York supreme court
jeremiah A. O'Leary of the Ameri-
can Truth society
Edwin Emerson, the correspondent
James Archibald, the correspondent
John Dewey of New York city, edi-
tor of the Gaelic American
Ray Reveridge, the California artist
c. j. Waidron of Medusa, N. "
T. J. Bowling of Hartford, Conn.,
Marcus Braun, editor Of Fair Play
George Sylvester Viereck, editor OF
viereck's Weekly.
Otto West, proprietor OF the Hour
Glass, 3O3 Fifth avenue
Paul koenig, manager OF the secret
service of the Hamburg American
Steamship line.
Carl A. Heynan of the Hamburg
American line, formerly acting Bra
xiiian consul in Mexico City and for
q time in charge of American con-
suiar interests there.
Lansing Absolves Congress.
Given out as an official document,
the specific evidence linking Count Won
Rernstorf up with the qualifications of
German intrigue and propag anda in
the United States provoked congress
men to clamor for an investigation.
To clear congress Immediately of
any suspicion which the state de-
partment's revelation may have direct
ed unwittingly at it's members, Secre-
tary Lansing dictated the following
statement:
''If there is any misunderstanding.
shall say emphatically | do not see
how the Bernstorff message in any
way reflects upon congress or any
member. Apparently it was the pur-
pose to employ agencies to influence
them. of which they would have no
knowledge, and in case they We're in
iuenced woulCN be entirely innocent.
do not know what the organize ton
was. This expose is apropos of Ger
man methods of peace propaganda and
there is no intention of casting SuSpi-
cton on members of congress-
Within few days German news
paper published in this country en-
ployed as a headline to an article deal
Ing with a rumor of German-American
dlSaffection in this country the deris-
I've legend, 'Iieb' Washington, magst
ruhig sein."
This is. of course, parody on the
refrain of Die wacht am Rhein." the
German national hymns:
"Lieb VaterlaRd, magst ruhig sefn."
Lover fatheriand, be restful Cor I'M
disturhed)."
In the parody it carries sneer COM
the German mode of speech and
thought.
Typi6es Propaganda.
OF itself the instance Is slight. But
IT typffieS certain important phase
of the German propaganda which sub
tiy but persistently seeks TO present
Germany's course in America I'm the
most favorable light. even to the ex-
tent of defending the improper activ-
tiles of the Teutonic diplomatic repre-
sentatives before their passports We're
given them.
ganda certain documents in the pos
session of the department of Justice
now assumes peculiar importance. in
that they prove undeniahly the init
mate relations between the accredited
representatives of the kaiser in the
United States and plotters against the
laws aud the security of this country
whose enterprise did not fall short .!
projected wholesale destruction of life
3 and property.
Office Is Established
Such of these documents were es
against the Germans have been pub
1tshed. Others are here made public
for the first time They form a curious
IL disjointed. chapter in the diplomat
history of the war
In the fall of 1914. when the Germa r
plots against Canada were fomeuting
Ia this country. there was established
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