The Carlisle independent., 1918-09-05
100000 SPENT FOR GERMAN PLOTS IN THE UNITED
 STATES
Official Account of German Intrigues During the Period or Our Neu-
 trality

| S20,000, GOO on plots and intrigues in this country in the years 1915 and 1916 through a single chan nel, the office of Doctor Heinrich F. Albert, the commercial at tache of the German embassy, is revealed for the first time in the ] latest publication of the Commit tee on public Information, re leased today
 The title of the phamphlet is German Plots and Intrigues in the United States During the Period of Our Neutrality" It's authors are Professor E. E. Sper. ry of the University of Syracuse. and Professor Willis NJ. West of the University of Minnesota. The sources from which their infor nation is drawn are the official files of the Department of Jus tice, and the records of the trials conducted by the Department agents, particularly in New York I Chicago, Detroit, and San Fran cisco.
 i The story told by these official records as they are painstaking | ly explained and interpreted is an amazing one. It dots the "i's" and crosses the 't's'' to all our conceptions of official Ger man unscrupulousnesS, effront- cry. and lying It deals with la Dor leaders. corrupted, and strikes caused in munitions plants by German influence; with the German financing of the movement for an embargo on munitions shipments; with the destruction of innocent mer- chant vessels by bombs planted in their cargoes by German agents in American harbors; with plots for the promotion of sabotage in the United States and in Canada, including the l blowing up of the Welland canal and the Canadian Pacific Rail way. with the corruption of l American opinion through the agency of German paid profes sors. newspapers: and lecturers; with the forging of passports to send German reservists abroad; with the supply from American ports of German raiders at sea: with German plots organized here in order to cause revolt in India and in Ireland: with the procuration of perjury and the shameless lying of the German Government Perhaps history contains no instance of effrontery greater than the issuance to the American press, in December 1915. of the following official lie:
 The German Government has naturally never knowingly ac cepted the support of any per son, group of persons, society or organization seeking to promote the cause of Germany in the United States by illegal acts. by counsel of violence. by contra vention of law, or by any means whatever that could offend the American people in the pride of their own authority"
 Every line of this phampblet proves the falsity of this official German statement.
 Among the Germans actively connected with plots and in trigues in this country while en- toying it's hospitality were Am baSsadors Bernstorff and Dunn ba: attaches Papen, Boy Ed and Albert; Franz Bopp, German Consul at San Francisco. and Kurt von Reiswitz. Consul at Chicago, pr. Buenz and Paul Koenig of the Ham burg Ameri- can steamship line: and such mi nor conspirators as Rintelen, Fay Gorst, Scheele, Kleist, and a i dozen others. The numerous American tools include Ex-Con- gressman Frank Buchanan. who was active in the movement for strikes and tie munitions em bargo; Lamar, the Wolf of Wall Street." pr. William Bayard Hale, to whom Count Berpstorff referred as one who could give information concerning the em bargo movement: Max Breitung Inf Cficao0 and A Inert Kolt.