The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-04-02
Arrested by Government
Agents While Celebrating
Drive of TeutOns
LINED UP AGAINST
WALL AND SEARCHED

Kaiser Had No Registration Cards
Suspects Are Locked Up in the
! Tombs.
NEW YORK, April For the last
! 10 days agents of the naval intelil-
gcncc service have been quietly inves-
tigating several German restaurants IN
this city which are known to be the
haunts of enemy aliens and other per-
sons whose sympathies in the war are
with the central powers. When the
l great German drive began 10 days
ago and the news from overseas showed
that the Tcutonic hordes were pressing
forward these enemy subjects and their
svmpathizers became more brazen III
their expressions of sympathy and ad-
miration for the kaiser. They gathered
IN small groups in their favorlte Ger
man eating md drinking places, gioat-
cd publicly over what they thought
was the rout of the allied armies,
drank the health of the kaiser, Hind
enhurg, and other Prussian leaders,
and when the wine flowed freely sang
Justify the war songs of Germany and
Austria.
For tAe first few days the govern
ment agents watched these places and
took notes. They worked on the
theory that if they got plenty of
rope" the merry kers would disclose
themselves in their true eolors, and
this theory proved correct. The result
= H. that the secret service Is today IN
possession of list of Germans, Aus
trians, and Bulgariaus who are under
d surveillance and the first false move
, on the part of any of them will re-
suit in immediate arrest. Sunday morn
{ ing 4 crowd of these ti-Ameriean
o shouters gathered in German restau-
e rant in East Eightyfourth street, not
far from Third avenue
p Four agents of the naval intelligence
service who had been ordered to watch
the place quietly waited in the imme-
IA diatc neighborhood 1t about
:. = o clock IN the morning the Qualification
= was at its height. The crowd inside
= was "hoching' the kaiser, linden
" burg, Won Buelow, and everybody OF
Importance in Germany. When they
II were not drinking toasts 20 the Ger
o man leaders they we're singing the
e Watch on the Rhine, Deutschland ube'
Allies, and other favorite songs of tht
J. German warriors.
lc 1t was 2.o5 a. m. when four nava
n intelligence men entered the Eighty
in fourth street place. They found Al
e. persons, most of them men, in the room
Everybody was speaking German, an'
m the big beer stems were continual,
" being lifted to the health and success
at Of the Hun hordes.
l. The four Americans-thcy were in tn
Or uniform of the United States navy
entered the place quietly. For
moment they stood silhouetted in In
- door and looking over the enemy alien
:, who were having such good time, a
p good times are understood on the enc
- my side of the Rhine.
u "That II be about enough a 81
athletic sailor in the uniform Of a chic
IN petty officer announced in a loud con
Id handing voice.
ny "The Germans were just swingin
ny into the second verse of The Watch G
A. the Rhine when the command rang OH
ar. Tho singing instantly stopped and II
)e' sailors stepped forward.
err ''Stand up, the senior of the Anne
~ lean party commanded.
'ul The enemy aliens sullenly obeyed.
80 Now march over to that wall, les
against it, and stand at attention u
ON til we are through with you, Il
las chief petty officer ordered.
rst Two or three Of the enemy allie
heSitated.
.. "Get to that wall and get the
he quick, said quiet spoken master
NY arms, and the reluctant ones meek
uis obeyed.
wo Forty men were lined up against t
ar wall when the naval agents began I
nee search. Ten OF them were unregister
aliens who had failed to comply wi
. the enemy alien regulations prom
=. gated by the Pre- sident Two OF the
D ' were described as defiant and ctcky
- in attitude. They were the first {
rod placed under arrest Eight other 81
arc iects Of the kaiser were arrested i
mn mcdately afterward. The eleven
its man taken into custody was an 4
,ain trian who was also defiant.
and These l., who were the leaders
the celebration. were taken to the f
sig raj building and turned over
are Charles r. be Woody. chief of the
,ow. partmcnt Of Justice Bureau Of inves
,rm- CATION for the New York district.
ural began an examination of them NJ
If day. It was said that the governm
find agents are seeking to ascertain whe
rlem er there are any active German 81
ears among them and that il will proba
for be this afternoon before the inve
cation is concluded In the meant
suies the suspects are locked up in
ones Tombs.
your 1t was reported that a number
III other "gloaters, as the secre, st
lee men call the German and AuStr
nc cclebrators, are under arrest, but
information was given out concern
e a this phase of the case. 1t was sta
+bat Tho 80 Jntarrn;p Il