Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-10-04


eminent.
One morning in April. 1916. govern
ment secret service men visited this
same Wall street Office while Won Igel
was preparing mass of papers which
he had taken from the safe for trans
fer to the German embassy in Wash
ington.
Find Lists of Spies.
When the papers were examined by
the department of justice the reason for
Won Igers determined fight became ap-
parent Here in the form of letters.
kilograms notatfons, checks, receipts.
ledgers. cashbooks. cipher codes. lists
of spies and other memoranda and rec
ords were found indications-ins some
instances of the vaguest- nature. in
others of the most damning conclusive
ness-that the German imperial gov
eminent. through its representatives in
! a then friendly nation. was concerned
with:
Violation of the laws of the United
States.
Destruction of lives and property in
merchant vessels on the high seas
Irish revolutionary plots against
Great Britain.
Fomenting i'll feeling against the
| United States in Mexico.
subornation of American writers and
lecturers
Financing of propaganda.
Maintenance of spy system under
| the guise of commercial investiga-
| ton bureau.
Substituting of bureau for the pur-
| pose of stirring up labor troubles in
munition plants
The bomb industry and other related
| activities.
koenia-von Papen Commerce Bureau.
Perhaps the most illuminating single
| document in the collection is letter of
| July 20, 1915. reproduced as it ap-
peared upon the stationery of the Blu
| reau of Investigation. This innocent
| pretending agency was at the outset
| the secret service of the Hamburg
| American Steamship company. Under
Do, rar hers r1,a a n
| adjunct to the German diplomatic secret
! service xxx is the secret designa-
ton of Koenig. who is now under in
| dfctments on criminal charges in con-
| nection with this diplomatic work.
| and is informed at Fort Oglethorpe.
| The person represented by the figure
| 1000" is Captain Won Papcn. former
| military attache of the German en-
bassy and the practical executive of it's
underground system. The document de-
scribes the subterfuges of Xxx (Koe-
| Nigh SO that he might not be Identified
| by the mysterious - when they met
xxx states that money was to be
| drawn for the payment of $50 to the
unnamed person. under peculiar precau-
tons. through Check No 146 on the
dated July 16. payable
signed amount $50 No rea-
| son was given to why the payment
| was made" says the report
Bombs in Coal.
Several days after the paymentN the
| recipient called ct the passenger of
| flee of the = line and made a state
ment which is thus embodied in the
| NV name is have an office
at the building. but / do not care
| to state my local address I intend to
| cause serious damage to vessels of the
by placing bombs. which I am making
| myself. board. These bombs re-
ser.ble ordinary Jumps of coal and 1
! am planning to have them concealed in
TO, ha adj OF a n
the allies"
Finally xxx states that the caller
brought with him sample bomb.
| such as has been described to you by
the subscriber. and asks for the in
| structions-
| The document is lettered at the foot.
90 r. to 1000" indicating that the Sc
cret agent known as 20. r." had trans
| United it to Won Papen.
Check Is Traced.
Now for the proof. direct and unes-
| capable. Check 146 on the Riggs Nation
| al bank has been traced and added to
| the secret service collection. 1t is pay
| able to Koenig and signed by Won Papen.
| Therefore Won Papen stands convicted.
| on the evidence of a report claimed as
| official document by the Germans. of
| paying money to piotter designing to
| blow up merchant ships sailing from the
| port of New York The person who made
| this report is known to department of
| justice officials
Compare these documents with the fol-
| lowing authorized statement from Ber-
lin. transmitted by wireless for publica-
| ton in the New York Times in December.
| 1915:
| The German government has. nat
urally. never knowingly accepted the sup
| port of any person. group of persons. so
| ciety Organization seeking to pro-
| mote the cause OF Germany in the United
! States by Illegal acts. by counsel or vi
! oience. by contravention of law. or by
any means whatever that could offend
the American people in the pride of their
/ own authority.
Destruction was not by any means
the sole interest of Koenig-s energetic
| bureau: 1t concerned itself also with
spy enterprises To Koenig wrote Otto
| West. an American citizen and pro-
prietor of the Hour Glass at 30s Cor
S63l Fifth avenue. recommending a rela-
tive of his who. according to his de
scription- must be interesting and
somewhat formidable figure. Mr.. Vests
description. somewhat curtailed follows:
He is a grandson of the late Ober-
hofprediger Strauss of Berlin. brother
of the present Militar Oberpfarrer Strauss
of Potsdam. nephew of the late Admiral
Won Schlefnitz.. the late General Won Man
tey. etc This gentleman changed his name
lean name. and none of his associates
poets his German birth antecedents
He is internatio journalist of grea,
repute. for years at the head of a news
| paper organization In England
| He has a personal reaso to be very
| bitter against England. because two
years ago tthfs letter appears to have
would make the date referred to the
early summer OF 1913, q certain attact
was made against him over commercia
| matters In Great Britain and II was