New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-09-28
MORE GERMAN
PLOTS EXPOSED
PAPERS SEIZED IN U. s. EXPOSE
ORDERS FROM KAISER
TO PLOTTERS.
PLAN IRISH REBELLION
DUPlICITY, SPYING, DESTRUC-
TON OF LIFE AND PROPERTY,
AIMS OF BERNsToRFF
BUREAUS.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Washington, Sept. 24.-Further dis
closures Of f~ar-reaching German prop
uganda, intrigues and plots in thi
country prior to the diplomatic breal
with Germany were made Saturday b.
the committee on public information.
In a bulletin styled official expose
the committee quotes numerous letter
and extracts from letters seized by tn
Department Of Justice in April, 1916
IL a raid upon the New York office o
Wolf o Igel. Won Igel in carrying
on his manifold pro-German and anti
American activities, the documents
show, was in constant touch with thu
German embassy, and with Count yor
Bernstorff, German ambassador to the
United States.
in the form of letters, kilograms
notations, checks, receipts, registers
cash books, cipher codes, lists of spies
and other memoranda and records
the committee says, "were found indi
cations-in some instances of the
vaguest nature, in others of the most
damning conclusiveness-that the
German imperial government, through
its representatives in a then friendly
nation, was concerned with:
violation of the laws of the United
states.
Destruction of lives and property
in merchant vessels on the high
seas.
Irish revolutionary plots against
Great Britain.
"Fomenting ill-feeling against the
United States in Mexico.
"Subornation of American writer's
and lecturers.
Enhancing of propaganda.
Maintenance Of a spy system I'M
der the guise Of a commercial inves-
tigation bureau.
"Subsidizing of a bureau for the pur-
pose of stirring up labor troubles in
munition plants.
"The bomb industry and other re-
lated activities"
The committee, Of which Secreta-
ries Lansing, Baker and Daniels are
members. and George Creel, chair
man, has this to say concerning Hol-
land:
1T has long been an open secret
that Holland is merely a w~ay-station
for shipments of contraband into
Germany. Here is official confirma-
ton from the Won Igel records, which
would seem to indicate a suspicious
and confidential relation. between the
Holland Commission and the German
diplomatic officials accredited to this
country. or possibly a belief by the
Germans that they could not success
fully get munitions to their own coun.
try. A message in code with interline-
airy translation Is entered as 'a2493'
and headed German Embassy, Wash
ington, D. c., April 6, 1916
1t runs as follows:
Telegram from Berlin by secret
roundabout way for Carl Heysen:
Consent sale Holland three hundred
thousand chests (cartridges) and two
hundred tons powder. Please get in
touch with Holland Commission.
Sender, War Minister. Foreign Of
flee, in representation. Signed: HAITI
feldt.'"
Prince Hatfield was an official of
the German embassy.
The Hamburg American lines bu.
reau Of Investigation, the committee
states, an "innocent-pretending agen-
cy," was at the outset the secret serv-
ice of the Hamburg American Steam
ship Company under Paul Koenig, the
manager, it became an adjunct of the
German diplomatic secret service. A
Letter dated July 20. 1915. from 20. r."
Zone Of its operatives) to 1000" (char.
acterized by the committee as Gap
tain o Papen," former German mill
tary attache), tells Of the payment of
$3.50 to an unnamed person, under pc
culiar precautions, after the recipient
had made this statement:
81 intend to cause serious damage
to vessels of the allies leaving ports
Of the United States by placing bombs,
which 1 am making myself, on board.
These bombs resemble ordinary Jumps
of coal and l am planning to have
them concealed in the coal to be lad
ened on steamers Of the allies"
Money apparently went from Ger
man sources in the United States
embassy channels to Sir
Roger Easement, the Irishman execut-
ed in London.
Lines Of Communication.
Several lines Of communication be-
tween the German diplomatic service
ind the Irish revolutionary movement
are indicated in the captured docu-
the statement continues.
John Dewey of New York, now edi
.or of the Gaelic American, a violent
y anti-British paper, was one of the
lctive agents Of this connection. Sig
entries appear here and there;
references to messages from the Ger
nan embassy at Washington and the
German consulate at New York; men,
ion of a secret code to be employed
Pope to Address New Peace Note
Rome.-The reply of the entente
lilies to the peace note Of Pope Bene.
lict now is being awaited by the
after which the Pope will
gain address q note to all the bellig- |,
The pontiff will point out that
he questions on which all agree real