The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-06

He is an international journalist of great
repute. for years al the head of a news
paper organization in England
He has a personal reason to be very
bitter against England. because two
years ago (this letter appears to have
been written about June l. 1875 which
would make the date referred to the
was made against him over commercial
| matters in Great Britain. and it was
only by appealing to the United States
department of state and writ Of habeas
corpus before the lord chief justice OF
England that he escaped successfully.
He was in England and France
AT the outbreak of the war: he has &C.
cess to the great sources of British and
French official information. He wants to
go across to Europe and serve secretly
| for Germany
Here's Pseudo Labor Agency.
Closely related to and to some extent
0noer the guidance Of Won IgeI was the
| GERMAN and Austro-Hungarian labor
information and relief bureau, with
central headquarters at 136 Liberty
| street New York city. and branches in
cleveland. Detroit. Bridgeport Pitts
ourgh. Philadelphia and Chicago The
| mead OF this enterprise was Hans Lie
| pau from whom it took its Familiarity
accepted name of the ''Liebau Employ
| ment agency"
Ihat the Austro-Hungarian embassy
| mad taken official cognizance of the bu-
reau Is disclosed in the letter written
| by the ambassador to the Austro-Hun-
which was found in the possession of
James F. J. Archibald by the British
| authorities August 80. 1915.
After Ammunition Plants.
In this letter the ambassador stated:
II Is my impression that we can dis
| organize and hold up for months If not
| entirely prevent. the manufacture of
munitions mum in Bethlehem and the middle
West. which. in the opinion of the Ger
| man military attache. is of Importance
ana amply outweighs the comparative
| ~ small expenditure of money involved:
put even If the strikes do not come on
| 1t Is probable that we should extort
| under pressure of circumstances more
favorable conditions of labor for our
poor. downtrOdden fellow countrymen
so far as German workmen are
| found in the skilled hands. means of
leaving will be provided Immediately
/ Tor them Besides this. a private Ger
man employment Office has been estab-
HShed which provides employment for
persons who have voluntarily given I'D
their places, and it is already working
Wen We shall also join in. and the
| widest support is assured US"
| The following representations on be-
| half Of the bureaus efficiency were
| made. under date of March "a 1915. in
letter to the German ambassador. Won
| Bernstorf.
Engineers and persons in the better
| class OF positions. and who had means
| of their own, were persuaded by the
propaganda of the bureau to leave war
| material factories"
Cause of Strikes.
The report comments with uncon-
| ceaIed amusement upon the fact that
/ munitions concerns innocentIy wrote the
| bureau for wOrkmen (Which of course
We're not furnished) and continues in
| reviewing later conditions in the NUM-
| lions industry.
Il THE commercial
| OF the country have no supply of unem-
| ployed technicfans Many dis
| turbances and suspensions which war
| material factories have had to suffer
and which it was not always possible
/ to remove quickly. but which, on the
! contrary, often led to long strikes.
| may be attributed to the energetic
| prOpa ganda of the employment bureau"
| Won 1gePS close connection with the
| enterprise is indicated by q number of
| items For example, there is a nota-
| ton to the effect that H Samson had
esta blished a Liebau branch Office in
| Detroit. an entry of $50 paid to Dr. Max
| Niven of Chicago in February. 1913, for
| the labor fund" and an inquiry ad-
| dressed by a bureau official to Won IgeI.
asking whether the Bosch magnetic
works manufactured fuses for shells
| the bureau having evidently been ap-
| piled to for Workmen for the Bosch
plant. The reply in the negative.
| stated that the company was ''univer-
| sally known for its friendly attitude
for the Germans"
John Dewey and "Irish Revolution"
Several lines of communication be-
| tween the German diplomatic service
! and the Irish revolutionary movement
are indicated in the captured docu-
| ments. John Dewey of New York city.
| now editor of the Gaelic American a
violent anti-British paper, was one of
| the active agents Of this connection
| Significant entries appear here and
there; references to messages from the
German embassy at Washington and
| the German consulate at New York;
mention of a secret code to he employed
| in communicating with him and of a
cipher Dewey" also a notation, the
! details of which remain undiscovered
| concerning Communication re manu-
facture hand grenades."
Dewey it was who acted, for a time at
least, as go-between for the German
| secret service dealings with Sir Roger
Easement. executed by the British for
| treason. There are several references
to money and messages for Sir Roger
| Easement, or. more briefly "R- c. and
| one record of a check for 81 900 for Case
ment evidently handled by Dewey.
Letters to- 6ernstorff.
Devoy's intimate connection with the
| German cause is disclosed in two letters
to Ambassador Won Bernstorff, the texts
of which follow;
The following communication from
| confidential man John Dewey was duly
transmitted:
Letter dated March %. delayed by
| censor. seems conclusive that first mes
| senger arrived safe with proposal to send
| supplies and that cable was suppressed
| Second also safe Third, with change of
plans, due about April IS
John Dewey further requests that the
| following telegram be dispatched to Sir
| Roger Easement:
mo letter now possible All funds
| sent home Sister and MS family WELL
Should Sir Roger be absent or ILL then
| J. D. requests that the telegram be de-
| lvered to John Monteith-
K N St
! To His Excellency. the Imperial Ambas-
sadOr, Count Won BernstOrf, Washing
ton. D. c.
New York, April Is, 1916
Herewith inclosed a report re-
| ceived by today from John Dewey.
| Kindly order further steps to be taken.
The important parts of the report were
| sent there today per telegram Is. copyD
To the Imperial Ambassador. Count Won
| Bernstorf. Washington, D. c."
As to f.rrest of Roger Easement
In view of the involvement of these
| prominent Irish-American leaders in the
| Easement plot and its German ramihca-
tons. it is little to be wondered at that