The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1917-10-18

EuitoE ana fuonSher, happened upon
its course of exposure through having
had for 10 years before the war what
other papers described as a bug on
wireless telegraphy. The paper had
maintained two powerful wireless
plants at Point Judith and at Block Is
land. When war broke out they had
decided to listen In on the messages
crossing the Atlantic. For FIVE months
they kept record of these messages, and
then they set out to find the codes and
make revelations. of the material they
secured they used only a fractional
part
'One of the newspapers stenogra-
piers was sent and secured an appoint
ment in the Austrian consulate in New
York. Others of its workers were con
stantly engaged in shadowing Captain
Boy-Ed, Captain Won Papen, former
Austrian Ambassador Dumba, the Ger
man Ambassador Bernstorff and othe;
German and Austrian officials. The
two wireless plants INCREASINGLY lis
tened in, two shifts of opera tors a.
work day and night, on Sayville and
Nantucket, the two wireless stations
which were being used mostly by the
Germans to keep in touch with Berlin
from where they received instructions
for every detail of their plotting policy
! For the United States government
the Brooklyn navy yard had had in.
structions to keep close watch on thu
. SdN Nllle anu NdHluCkel stations, Gu
nothing suspicious was ever reported
until Mr.. Rathom took some of the mes.
sages which he had received from hi.
operators to the state department. Il
was then learned that the navy yart
operators had been in the pay of Ger.
man agents in America, and had beer
told not to hear too much.
Ingenious Codes Used.
The codes used by the Germans were
of the most ingenious nature. Many Of
them pretended to be stock quotations
and some were even done up as funera
directions. In some cases. however. tht
codes showed evidence of the "greer
blubber." referred to by the speaker, al
on one occasion when Mr.. Rathom was
able to go to President Wilson ant
show him copies Of eight separate mes.
nine days. all relating that little EN-.
, lily" had died of such and such an III.
ness, in certain part Of room, had
been buried in certain cemetery be.
side such and such previously deceas-
ed relative. In every one of these mes.
the name of the relative, the cemetery
and so on, varied. and clear code was
detected in each of the messages.
Green Blubber In Brain.
"The first revelation which Mr.. Rath-
for blundering. 1t was the story Of
Werner HOrne-the man who was re-
sDonsible for the attempt to blow up
the Vanceboro bridge. Horne had been
detected as German spy by one of the
Journal reporters in New York. In an
effort to disguise himself Horne allowed
his beard to grow for three days, put on
an old suit which he purchased for
three dollars (even this detail was re-
ported) and packed his personal effects
in an old carpet bag. Having carried
out these elaborate precautions he took
passage, for the point where the Job,
was to be done, on one of the finest and
most luxurious trains in the United
States. AS is well known now. he was
caught. When asked later by Mr.,
Rathom why he had been foolish
enough to travel frst-class in such
a German officer and gentleman and
always Travelled in the best style
Passport Fraud Outlined. -.
Another German scheme in which
the Journal reporters outwitted the
Teutons occurred soon after In New
York also. A fraudulent passport bu-
reau. operated by German officials. was
discovered doing a land -office business
in an office building on Broadway. The
Journal men-faking as public ac-
countant on the one side, and manu-
wiched the passport forgers between
then. Every word that passed in this
Office was recorded by means of instru-
ments used for that purpose. and re-
ported to the Providence Journal When
sufficient evidence was gathered the
United States secret service was noti-
fed and the three forgers were taken
away. AS soon as they had been re-
moved three of the Journals employees
were allowed to take charge of the Of
ficeNto receive the patrons, 1t was not
long after that Won Papen and the Ger
man military attache at Tokyo came in
with a list of names of men for whom
they desired passports, The name at
the top Of the list was that of Werner
Horne.
journal Man i3ernstOrfi's Secretary.
"A friend of mine,' said Mr. Rath-
ON, thinking himself very friendly, but
In a thing which / objected to. went to
Paris and while there bought lot of
war relics. Among them was one of the
first iron crosses that had been given
by the German emperor to major of a
German regiment. who died on the field
and whose cross had been taken from
him and taken to Paris. 1t was sold to
my friend, with statements as to whom
1t had belonged, and my friend sent it
to me. | sent it to Bernstorff with a
letter, saying that that mark of honor
able distinction of man who had done
his duty for his country belongs to his
family I gave the name of the man
and the name of the family, and begged
him to take care of the cross so that 1t
could be sent back after the war or at
some time to the mans people.
Tears Note to Pieces.
"The ambassador tore the note to
pieces, threw the note in the face OF
the man sent, and threw the cross on
the floor. saying that, after having
been defiled by the hands of American
dogs that cross was of no use to any
body in Germany ! knew my man was
telling the truth, becase the man had
in there reported the, INCIDENT to me
exactly the way he did. incidentally
might say that the individual to whom
refer was in the German embassy II
months as one of the ambassadors sec
retaries, and the ambassador had nc
knowledge that he was not what he
nretended to be until the Frederick
VIII left New York for Halifax He
said to my man, you had better get
aboard OF you will lose your boat" and
he replied: II am safer on this side
Mr.. eBrnstorff had no idea of that
mans identity or whom he was serving
until he left New York And he wrote
h letter from Halifax to friend ir
New York, which he attempted to get
sent back, but which was intercepted
telling some of his friends what hi
thought of this individual.
VIXEN Huerta Met BOy-Ed.
"'The famous Huerta case, the at
tempt of the German government tt
embroil us with Mexico, an attemp
that the recent Zimmerman letter prov