The Washington herald., 1917-09-23

his professional honor (the- record IN
dica,es that he was paid 1900 &c
'-traveling expenses'D n sugRested b
the fact that he was expelled. or a
legged to have been expelled. frot
Berlin for a violent attack upon Am
bsss.dor Gerard. Emerson has ha
a picturesque career in many part
OF the world, and once cabled TO
New York newspaper a picturesqu
but imaginative account OF his ow
death In the far East under painfJ
and Interesting conditions. lie wa
born In Dresden, Of American par
ents, and is now travelling unde
American passport obtained by falls
representations.
Fair Play" that mIsnamed orgal
Of Teutonic inspiration. appears
have been subsidized quite dispro
portionately to its value. since IL re
ceived in all $4,000 in the course
few months in 1915. Marcu
Braun, who appears as its editor
is known as a political leade
among the Hungarians Of lowe
Second avenue. in New York, an,
has been variously connected will
the fringes OF the publication
world He is supposed himself e
be a Hungarian His associate IL
Fair Play was one J. p. Bryan.
Even with such liberal suppor
Fair Play" did not NIL the bill, 70,
in January, 1916. a letter was writ
ten by l.. Schroeder, a German
newspaper correspondent in Toxic
to the German diplomatic represen.
tatives lamenting the lack Of a gen.
timely influential weekly in New
York devoted to Teutonic interests
and suggesting that one Borsod
might be the right man to conduc
such a publication.
Use Press and Lecturers Too.
Frequent hints of George SyIvcs
ter Niereck's journalistic activities
appear. and there are a few nota.
tions of Pearson: Subject, Press,'
which may refer to Pearson's Mag.
azine. OF which the editor. Franl
Harris. is strongly pro-German. o,
may indicate a secret agent names
Pearson. who is the subject OF othei
entries.
The lecture platform IS represent
ed in Ray Beveridge, the Califor,
mia artist and sister OF kuehue Bev.
eridge. the prominent sculptor. In
one entry Privy Counsellor AIber
acknowledges receipt OF $4,000 from
the embassy to finance Miss Bev.
e-idge's lecture tour. German wal
pictures were also to be furnished
though the alleged scope OF the ice.
lures was to be comprised in toplCl
allied TO Red Cross work.
Other figures OF more vague I'm.
port drift into light here and there
in the Won Igel papers or the Blu.
reau OF Investigation reports. Col
Z. G. Woodford, an old British
hater, appears TO have received sun.
dry sums OF money for services un.
specified. The following letter.
found in the Won Igel papers refei
to Col. Woodford:
New York. April 4. 1876
His EXcellency Mr.. won Igel,
New York. Y. Y.
according 20 a letter received here
today the imperial embassy is Of th,
same opinion as myself-that moneI
should not be paid to Woodford.
Please act accordingly and inform
Woodford, IL he should show up there
again, that Berlin has received IN,
letter regarding the sum TO be paid
and has besides again been asked ~
telegraph whether money should H
paid.
Until answer is received from Ber.
! lin. nothing more can be paid.
(SignedD PRETZELL
just One Mans Record.
Col. woodford appears, however
from the following letter TO have re.
ceived the sums promised:
New York, April u. 1916.
| His Excellency Mr.. Won Igel.
Please pay the remainder OF So tc
Woodford. He is to receive $50 &C.
cording to order from Berlin.
Please have the inclosed receipt at
tested.
CSigned) u. r.
All these, It must be remembered,
are but a small portion Of one Ger
man agents records They represent
but one chamber. as it were. in an
enormous ard complicated maze OF un-
derground plotting. Other entries an-
pear too vague to indicate anything
more definite than some connecloE
with or interest in enterprises already
notorfous-payrnent to the Wellane
Canal conspiracy; correspondents witn
DIR. Walter Scheele. accused OF being
a bomb manufacturer; references "a
the Maverick and the Annie Larsen,
blockade runners; side lights on Jap
arese propaganda, Mexican plots. ana
Canadian lines of secret informauon'
even hints that officers high IN the
military service OF the United states
were being Improperly used for Ger
man military enterprises.
! How far the plot goes will probably
never be known. The spider. Noh
Ieel, had scuttled away TO his own
refuge in Germany. His nest Is DC
stroyed. But the strands OF the U'h
he Nyove may still stretch over ii'e
city or town whlsh you WHO ioaa tHis
inhabit.
Holland n Way Station.
1t has long been an open secret th1t
Holland is merely a way station Tor
shipments of c5ut-s band Tio Ger
many. Here : Official coEiIin' li"n
from the Won 1gel records. WHICH
would seem TO indicate a suspicious ana
confidential reldsi OF between the i =
land commissi ~ and the Germ.
Diplomatic officials accredited 10 tn's
country. or possibly belet pN IRE
Germans that '..s- could not s.c.'S-
fully get the munitions 20 their "Wa
country. The message in coae. VIA
interlinear translation, is entered :
"a 9s9S'' and headed German N
, bsssv. Washington. n. G.. A.IL g
1916" 1t runs as follows
Telegram from Berlin ~ Se'i''
, rounda bout way for Car htls'h. .
Consent sale Holland three A"ieit l
thousand chests CARTRIDGES aud tNP
hundred tons powder. Please get N
touch with Holland commission.
sender. war minister. forciSn Office
|, in representation.
'(Signed) Hdtzieic'.
| NN-Lsla cb;or,- concerned with mile
, tary affairs in Europe, the repre- tsehta-
tives of a supposedly friendly nation
were keeping an interested watcn On
, our own activities in that line.
secret code message OF April u. iHi".
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