The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-06-30

disclosed that the German Am. entl.'31k -
bassador at Washington, Count
Won Bernstorf, was secretly en-
gagged, soon after the mysterious Is
conference between him and
Nine Storch Immediately after
she reached Washington from
Cuba, in fomenting the Irish in
Surrection from this country.
Nine. Storch was sent from
Washington to New York by
Won Bernstorf In that secret -
interview, as already described
on these pages, the Ambassador
gave to the young spy $4,000.
1t has never been satisfactorily
proven just how this fund was
used by Nine. Storeh, but all
indications point to her using it
in cultivating the confidence of one company of
Sim Fem sympathizers in New York and in
bribing others.
Nine. Storch soon separated true Irish sympa-
thizers from those who sought only to make
capital out of their power to urge dissenSion
Upon these she used different methods to bring
their aid to Germany's plans With them she
she was with an inexhaustible fund of informa-
ton, gathered during her visits to the German
spy headquarters in Glasgow in the company Of
the British officer, heretofore related, she was
able to convince Sim Fem agents here that her
heart 'bled for their country
When she said these things Nine Storch put
her bleeding heart" into her eyes, She had
been well schooled in coquetry and the play of
emotions. More than one of those men who
were Influenced to send encouragement to the
Sim Fem from New York to Ireland and whose
words had important bearing upon the catas-
trOOhe that the revolt proved to be, were in
spired by the charming young woman whose
passionate pleadings they could not resist. Some
OF them were even persuaded by her to go to Ire
land themselves, to "help when the time came"
They were shot, or are now in prison.
That Nine. Storch played a part in the at
tempts of her masters to cause trouble between
this country and Mexico is disclosed by her
friendships with various prominent Mexicans
who were semi-official representatives of the
southern republic in this country. Among
these was an elderly fnancier who had been
prominently connected with the Felix Diaz
regime in Mexico. He fed to this country when
it became no longer safe for nt-Carranzistas
to remain within the reach of the Carranza
power. His family connections retained for
him however, potent influence in the political
affairs of Mexico. an influence all the more
weighty because of his large estates, safely held
for him by relatives who remained in the good
graces of Carranza, and his huge money re.
sources.
Perhaps it was the Count de Beville, who sue
ceeded in meeting manv important perSonages
through his unauestionable family standing that
suggested to Nine. Nezie that this rich elderly
Mexican might be of some use to furthering
German propaganda in the Mexican interior-or
perhaps it was the Count de Cleremont, who also
knew many foreigners resident in New York.
At any rate the rich Mexican was presented to
the young Turkish woman.
Nine, Storch had never been to Mexico-''but
she had heard marvellous tales Of its beauty, the
romantic simplicity of its people, and she was
quite shocked to hear of the desolation that had
been spread by the various revolutions Of late