The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-09-23
The Clever German Code.

The Clever German Code.
Along this same line is 2 coGe mes
/. sa &c nv wireless to Banker. Nav Moe
: bius. Oherwallstrasse. Berlin. which Is
interesting chiefly as showing tho code
method Of important comn,inicatiors
practiced by the German official plot
i tcrs In this country. Tho code trans-
lation was found with tho cory of the
message among won IGers papers. Tho
original is a German dispatch which.
being translated into English. sounds
like an innocent business transaction.
Wig: ..
! National Gcrmania Insurance COM
tract certainly promised. Executor In
, evidently satisfied with proposition.
Necessary steps have boon taken.
Henry Neuman."
Not so innocent and harmless as It
looks. for what the message really
means Is this:
Irish agree to proposition. The
necessary steps have been taken.'
Some Spies Not Very Wise.
Information carefully and extensive
~ set forth In the secret documents Of
the German officialdom was sometimes
wide of the facts. For example. n
lengthy memorandum of March !. 1916.
transmitted by the secret agent. Capt.
Boehm. dealing with the Mexican
crisis. appears to have been largely the
work OF some fervid and protective
| imaginatio The memorandum pur-
ports to outline President Wilson's ex.
rected message to congress. 1t pre-.
diets that the president will attribute
Mexico's anti American activities d.
rect to German money and Indictment;
that he will call upon congress to sup
port him in radical measures Che
prophet even attempts to paraphrase
the language to be employed in the
| message): that congress win indorse
the presidents stand. following which
upward, ri, 15p German, spies and agents
provocatenrs were to be arrested and
the amba ssadors OF the central powers
to receive their passports.
Tongue Was Too Loose.
Captain Boehm himself was too loose
Of tongue for the good of his service.
. tSEld appear from n report Of the
Ge.pan military information bureau
dated March 81. 1916. =,
Captain Eoehm decided to leave
! after reports received here were sub
, mitted to HIM to the effect that mem
bers of the press were informed as Ia
his personality and the purpose OF his
being here. Too great confidence in
the silence of his fellow men, especial
~ the members of the American Truth
society - was probably the cause OF
his becoming quickly known hare."
| Many inventors, some of them oh
viously cranks. are represented either
by correspondence or notation as hav-
ing plans involving the use Of sundry
devices Of destruction. One entry OF
the sort merits special attention be
cause Of the notoriety OF the individual
involved. Here It Is. translated from
! the German record OF correspondence:
visreek as Bomb Plottsr.
"June IL. 1915 Sender. G. s. vicr.
eek. Contents. inquiry as TO bombs
supply offer. Told to send further de
tails"
Possibly the further details are in
dicated In another entry Of -four
months later.
| Slender, vtercck. Contents. offcr o
picric acid
Picrtc acid Is a constituent Of man.
p high explosives. Mr.. Viereck Is some
thing of high EXPLOSIVE himself. hav
Ing been editor Of the virulcntly pro
German weekly rFather'and. OF New
York. now charred In title (but not Il
purpose) to "Viereck's Weekly"
An Ambitious German AGENT.
Carefully preserved tfor what rur
nose ono can only conjecture, arc tx
letters written early IN 1915 by r. .
r bowling. of l07 Franklin avenue. Hart
, ford. Conn.,. to Count Won Bernstorf
( Ina German amha ssador. explaining
little plan OF the writer's to get room
near voraous munitions factories an
blow them M. Specifically, he ey
pressed willingr css to destroy the Sec
y willie "factmrin=-rnpany and III
: Chase, mills, Of Watervillc. Conn: II
!, Remington Arms company and II
: Union Metallic Cartridge COMPANY fat
.: tories In bridgeport. Conn.,: ana whe
that was completed ne thought tn.
he might 60 out to Fort Huron. Mict
and blow up the Grand Trunk tunn
\ near that place. AS all these constru,
lions are still standing. 1t Is ohvlo,
:, that Mr.. Dowling's plans failed to con
mend themselves TO his distinguish.
correspondent. His present wher
abonts are not known.
U. 8. Military Secrets.
OF more direct military interest
this country IL the espionage cnte
y prise limited at In a secret code me
sage OF April II. 1915. signed "l:e
n 1929 '4ssla.'. addressing Won lgel
n this effect: .'s==a
" Herewith respectfully send an G
,e tract regarding the troops stationed
re- California and the armament of I
i. coast Qualifications"
In Journalistic. lecturers. and publish'
ct were literally employed by Won i
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