The Alaska daily empire., 1917-06-27
UNCOvERINC OF HUN PLOTS IN UNITED STATES BY NEWSPAPER
 IS REVEALED FOR FIRST TIME

informed that she was the party to
 choose-by other friends of ours.
 One day, about five or six weeks
 after she got there. she informed
 us that great packing case was be-
 ing filled with propaganda documents
 and with bills of expense in connec-
 tion with explosions in intuition fac
 tories and other vital and valuable
 things, and was to be shipped off the | following week straight to England
 on a Swedish ship and from there to Germany.
 "The only thing we could possibly day when they were about to close
 the package up, this girl, under in structions-and I may say inciden- tally she is now back at work get ting her $16 a week-sat on this box
 eating her lunch Nearly everybody
 else had gone, but von Papen. rather debonair and fond of ladies, wander ed in and sat on the packing box and asked if he could share her lunch with her She said certainly, and while they were sharing the
 sandwiches he made some sentiment tai advances and she, in rather dreamy way, took out a large pencil and drew two big red hearts on this
 packing case. Daughter and ap-
 plause)
 Tied His Own Moose
 "It was Capt. von Papen himself
 who put the arrow through them
 Qaughter) and, ladies and gentlemen, when the ship Austrias II reached
 Falmouth, they picked that package
 out of the hold from about hun
 dred and fifth others, and identified | it by the two hearts. on top. Uaugh-
 ter) And yet they say there are no
 brilliant people but the Germans.) Revealed Easement Plot Tt was through the Journal, Mir.
 Rathom said, that great quantity of important papers were secured
 from Wolf von Ingel These papers | revealed the Easement plot for the Irish uprising. When the papers
 were taken, MT. Rathom said, in il- lustrating his point, that there is a certain amount of stupidity in all | German depotism. Even Bernstortf
 made application to the State Depart
 ment to have them returned. He was told that any papers he could iden- | tify would be returned to him, and
 he then realized how he had commit | ted himself in asking that the papers ! be returned. Three days before I Bernstorff was ordered to return to
 Germany, MT. Rathom declared, he demanded that the American govern
 ment suppress the Providence Jour | nal.
 The first revelation which MT. Ra- thom told illustrated the German ca pacity for blundering. It was the story of Werner Horne-the man who | was responsible for the attempt to
 blow up the Vanceboro bridge Horne had been detected as a German spy 1 by one of the Journal reporters in New York. In an effort to disguise himself, Horne allowed his beard to
 grow for three days, but on an old
 suit, which he purchased for three
 dollars -(even this detail was re-
 ported) )-and packed his personal eff fleets in an old carpet bag. Having
 carried out these elaborate precau- tions he took passage to point
 where the job was to be done. on
 one of the finest and most luxurious ;,, ha JTntt Cfot ic
 we'll known he was caught. When asked later by Mir. RathOm why he hads been foolish enough to travel first class in such shabby dress,
 Horne replied that he was German officer and a gentlemen, that he al ways travelled in the best style. Made Fraudulent Passports Another German scheme in which the Journal reporters Outwitted the Teutons occurred later in New York. also. A fraudulent passport bureau, operated by German officials, was discovered doing land office busi, ness in an office building on broad
 way. The Journal-faking as pub lie accountant on the one side and a manufacturers agent on the other sandwiched the passport fOrgers be- tween them. Every word that passed in this office was recorded by the means of the instruments used for that purpose and reported to the Providence Journal.
 When sufficient evidence was gathered the United States Secret Service was notified and the three forgers were taken away As soon as they had been removed three of the Journal employees were allowed to take charge of the office and to receive the patrons. It was long af- ter that von Papen and the German military attaches came in with list of names of men for whom he de- sired passports. The name at the top