Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-09-25


WASHINGTON. septHi 37liaTesft6n
diplomaoy-that crudee WsinAst9r .fAhdx..
stretching it's claws out from .Wighstns-
strasse to all the weFldTWas Fsyesled'
here tonight in an efieia1nsxpose -
plotting fearsome' thingse iHN tfiAi I IN N
nation. .5H+'i1S 49,
From the won Igel ,pApeEa long Ii
the possession of the goFeEamsatdst IT,.
committee on public insorameions Disosd
together story strankG And mors'
startling than fiction. sho that q ss7
many through her enbsssyTfwe con
cerned with: II. smA nj ss1Do5~
Destruction of lives ,Ande property
in merchant vessels on hsqhiEh seas :.
violation OF the laws of y theToUnitsd
States; Irish revolutionary plots AGAINST
Great Britain; fomenting HIn9 feeling
against the United States I'm 1fexico:
subornatton of American writer's and
lecturers; financing of propaganda;
maintenance of spy system utidsri the
guise of a commercial investigator tu-l
reau; subsidizing bureau to stir APP
labor troubles in munitions plants; sthe
bomb industry and other related aao-;
tivities." stjnss
BERNSTORFF FEATURED LEES s1s /
Across the page streaked the name or
Count Bernstorff, former German am
bassador, and his shameless aides veh.
Papen and Boy-Ed. attaches OF the ems
bassy. .. .-.a.es sfoIsr
Atop of this new revelation linking
the German embassy with throttling de-
signs against the United States came
Senator King today in the upper con-
gress branch. revealing letters uthas
proved Fair Play and other raciaIs
newspapers had fattened on the largessAs
of German and Austrian agents. He adj
viSed wedding out the propagandists and
counselled making war on Austria, Bul-s
garia and Turkey. Congress sizzled over!
the state departments expose of Bern-s
storfrs attempt to get $4,000 for In
fuencing congress las on former occa-s
sions." The state department disclaimed
any intent to blacken any congressman'sA
name, but indicated that 1t did not fes
e. congress- nrobe of Bernstorff's actit
Ties would do much good.
Out of the Won Igel expose may
detailed this brief, though perhaps df
jointed, account of Teuton pIottins
within a nAtio nwith which German
and Austria were at pence.
In April. 1916. secret service md
raided the advertising office Of va
Igel in New York He claimed to b
on German territory and defied the of
ficers to shoot him. saying war WOULD
result. They didn't shoot but they gota
his papers-damning evidences of q df-.
rect chain between the German embas-l
sy and plotters who would bomb NUM-
tions ships, who would upset Ireland
papers that showed Judge Cohalan, Of
New York, as a direct aid Of the en-
bassy in it's anti-British work; cheeks
that showed embassy payments to
Teuton helpers such as foreign language
newspaper editors; documents that con-
victed the Teutons Of fomenttng the Sir
Roger Easements Irish rebellion; along
with offers from Americans to do dAs-1
tardly work, such as blasting munitIon
plants. s45g 4
Marcus Braun, editor of Fair Play
figured in both the committee expose
and the senate discussion. Other news
papermen named with. Viereck, of Vie
recIIs Weekly; Edwin Emerson. noted
journalist; J. Archibald, already espcsed
SENATOR KINGS EXPOSE
Senator Kings expose showed checks
direct from the German embassy to
Marcus Braun, a letter from Braun ac-
knowIedging receipt of payments and
subsidies to foreign language papers
from Charge Zwiedenek. of the Austrian
embassy, including telegram cozienny.
''Illustrovani List" and Fair Play"
jeremiah O'Leary. editor OF ''BulP'-a
an Irish-American publication barred
from the mails and excoriated during
the campaign by President Wiison-also
is named in the expose
Check 146" on the Riggs bank,
Washington, is behind the story OF Paul
Koenig, Hamburg-American line secretA
service mans connection with Won Pa
pen in a deal whereby bombs like Jumps
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