Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1918-06-21
The
New Power in
the Ukraine
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BY GIDEON HOB
OF The TigiLonfes


pose of pillaging the world.
Among the most powerful and in
cessantly active organizations for car
rying out these schemes of the robber
TeutOns have been the German Steam
ship companies with their agencies all
over the world. Their malign intrigues
have been INSCRIPTIONS, tireless and
backed by unlimited means placed at
their disposal by Berlin. That all Eu-
rOpean nations have known Of these
plots, or at least have suffered from
them, is now beyond question. That
we in America have been the foolish
dupes Of these cunning thieves, many
people are still too simple to credit.
A forceful presentation Of the case
against the German steamship COM
panies, and the whole German system
of espionage, propaganda and deliber-
ate intrigue is made by Theodore
Kahn of Lemberg. Mr.. Kahn shows
that the German steamship organiza-
ton has been from it's very beginning
part of the German military machine.
1T has shaped ITSELF" he says, Gin
the different countries and conspired
slowly and for some decades in silence
and secrecy, employing for it's purpose
in every country the most monumental
intriguers of particularly heinous
! type. The offices of the German steam
ship companies were centers Of the
German espionage system. The agents
of tha German lines wora
drilled and directed from a military
establishment controlled by an ire
sponsible government.
Their meshes of imperial propa-
ganda and subsidies spread to oil coun-
tries. Many of the dupes of their &C.
tivities regarded the news set afloat
by them as gospel truth. The agencies
of these companies were an important
part of the German spy system, whose
activities were classified under various
heads; military, naval, diplomatic,
commercial and agents prOvacateurs.
In the Offices of Balm and Heinecken
nearly every plot for German expan-
sion has been Matched.
MANY of the different patriotic ma
tional religious and commercial socie-
ties, naval leagues, leagues of Truth,
bowling clubs, singing societies, etc.,
throughout Galicia, Bukowina and Eu-
ropean Russia have been secret of
fees of the German Steamship COM
panies where propaganda was carried
on under the protection of national
law with the intention to influence law
makers and rulers.
can important factor in the league
OF these societies were the many Aus
trian army officers who have been sta
toned in the border towns of Galicia
and the BukOwina. The greater part
of Austrian army officers are burdened
with heavy debts. Many of the gar.
risons situated on the borders of Aus.
tria and Russia have been "Strafgar.
nisonen" punishment garrisons)
where officers whose pay has been con
fiscated have been sent Therefore il
is not surprising that they have beer
easily Influenced by the sound of gold
They have secretly acted as agents fol
the German steamship companies
These army officers as we'll as officials
of the Austrian government, pro
fessors, school teachers, etc., worked
and intrigued together wherever the,
could"
The activities of these devotees an(
servants of kaiserism have been man,
and varied, but always with the on,
: end in view.
no TO ~ 4.
prepare calmly and methodically tn
population for any plan Matched in tn
war ministry, to influence and Stacker
: any vigilance directed against German
interests, to safeguard German mOnopo
lies in foreign countries, to sign 'Au
L thoritative Opinions when needed
: Their activities included-to start an
maintain the necessary crusade wher
ever required by their paymasters, t
arouse enthusiasm for war in one cOu1
d try, to preach peace and good faith i
t another, to weave new intrigues,
b place Interpolation in foreign parlis
I ments, to see to publication of memo
t. randums, to address applications an
|. petitions to the authorities, to inve1
slanderOus and malicious tales, to eli
culate and hold discussions in publ
to foster strikes, to inf1ame throug
d publications and newspapers the publ
mind. And through this system the
8 bamboozled the public in a directio
s. desired, placing a perpetual screen b.
fore the people and reality"
1t is interesting to note in connectio
with Germany's wall for freedom
" the seas, that since German confeder,
+ ton no foreign vessels have been a,
:. mitted to German ports except undt
y vexatious restrictions, and that &c
'. man steamship companies have alwa,
prevented the working Of other lines
,e continental Europe, so far as the
m could. Third-class passengers, for i
stance, were not allowed to pa
through Germany if they wished to sa
in by non-German lines.
y. One of the favorite plans of Germa
1zing European countries is simplv