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New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-04-24
STATE EXAMINATIONS TO BE
| HELD IN RURAL SCHOOLS

Beginning with Friday, May "a, and
ending Wednesday May 20, the high
school board examinations for the rural
and semi-graded schools Of Brown County
will be held. This is the announcement
made by County Superintendent Ken
nedy.
The>studies in which the examinations
will be conducted are first year English,
physiology, American history, civil gov
eminent, spelling, eighth grade grammar
and composition, arithmetic, geography,
and elementary algebra.
All the necessary information and
material will be sent to the teachers
conducting the examinations. Papers
must be marked in red ink; those show
ing percentage Of IS and above must
be sent to the County Superintendent,
tie time limit being fixed at Friday OF
the same week. All other papers are
to be returned to the pupils.
Examinations will be conducted at
the following places in charge of the
teacher whose name appears also:
District No. SO, J. E. Moran; IT,
Emily James; 20, Alice Davey; 8, Ger
rude Meisinge:; 80, Viola Goetsch; 50,
Tina Patterson; 81, Agnes Larson; g.,
Elda Schrader; 81, Maggie Watts; 6,
Frances Haubrich; a., Ethel BROWN
20, Mira Peterson; 33, Rose Kozitza;
10, Ruth Ruenitz; 16, Marie Trester;
20, Erpa Guth; IA, Minnie Brust and
s., Ella Peterson.
The following districts will send their
pupils, who wish to write on examina-
lions to the districts Indicated:
Dist. No. 81 to So; 60 to IT; Is to
20; II to 80; 43 to "a; 7 and 81 to 20;
81 to 66; 38 and 81 to Hanska; 81 to
Springfield.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-04-24
FOODS TASTE BETTER COOKED
TOBACCO TASTES BETTER
TOASTED

Since the day of the caveman, who
liked his meat raw, civilization has
learned a lot about the scientific treat
ment of the things we eat.
Naturally none of us would now
prefer to have our meat raw, our po-
tatoes as they come from the ground,
our coffee unroasted. y
And naturally follows the great dis
covery recently made by The Ameri-
can Tobacco Co.-that tobacco tastes
better TOASTED!
This wonderful new idea-simple
like all great inventions-was first
used in producing the famous LUCKY
STRIKE Cigarette-made of toasted
Burley tobacco. -.
Burleyh has mellow flavor, entirely
different from the tobacco usually
used for cigarettes. It is a pipe to-
baccoandLUCKY STRIKE Cigarettes
taste like pipe. 80 -.. ~.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-04-24
A BIG ADVERTISEMENT

Monday the Safert & Gugisberg
Construction Company completed a
silo SO feet high and IL feet in diameter
at their plant on Third North St., be-
tween Valley and Spring Streets. Work
commenced on this silo last week and
the finishing touches we're put upon it
Monday. This silo has been erected
Tor advertising purposes and makes an
imposing appearance. Mr.. Saffert says
that the silos IL feet in diameter are
usually built no higher than 40 feet
altho some are built as high as the one
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-04-24

erected by them here. This silo is made
Of rlbstone 12"x3O" and 1-2o thick.
The roof is constructed of lumber and.
IS covered with composition roofing,
surfaced with red Vermont stating.
Inc material mat that goes into the con-
struction Of the silo in question weighs.
slxty-five thousand pounds and would
cost 1888, F. Q. B. New Ulm, which
includes the labor of having it erected.
A special feature which this company
claims for their silo is the door which
works on hinge like house door but
IS so built-that it acts like refrigerator
door and will never stick.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-04-24
:ERMAN-AMERICANS
co "OvER THE TOP
Continued from lst page)
NicolIet County

Nicollet Co. has oversubscribed it's
allotment by $4,000. This is a COM
mendable showing. On the other hand,
it makes the Brown Co. figures stand out
SO much more boldly, if we compare the
records made by the two counties.
Brown. Co. has signed up for almost
three times the amount Of Nicollet Co.,
while New Ulm alone is almost in the
same class with the whole Of 'Nicollet Co.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-04-24

Topgraft unfruitful but hardy apple
trees now with good varieties.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-04-24

four months. War intelligence, navy
intelligence and the department of JUS
tice are doing the same, and in the
thousands of cases that have been re-
ported we have found but one genuine
case of deliberate intent in putting
ground glass in food. This case, was
where a disgrunted employee of a bak-
cry in Fort Smith, Ark, placed glass
in one loaf of bread. This was done
for the purpose Of injuring the bust
ness of the bakery and succeeded so
we'll that the bakery is out Of bust
ness, due to untimely publicity. The
department Of justice has made many
investigations of these reports but so
far has discovered no cases in which
glass was placed in food ,maliciously
and only one case of poison court plaster
which appears accidental"
Lawyers Not Needed In Case of
| Casualties =.
| AS soon as large numbers of Amer
lean troops get into the battle line in
France there are necessarily going to
be many casualties. Nearly all of the
men are insured in keeping with the
war Department. plan. Already lot
of disreputable lawyers are offering
their services to those whose sons OF
husbands have been injured in battle.
In order to head off these lawyers the
war department has issued the follow
ing instructions: Soldiers, sailors, OF
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03
The German Plot Exposure That Was StopD

Schoen, Haniel Won Haimhausen, coun-
sellor, and another man employed in
the embassy: 4 told the Secretary of
State to-day that the poor ambassador
was crushed to earth by the lack of
understanding of the American people
shown by my government in Berlin;
that accused Foreign Office which puts
such burdens on mel This declara-
ton was received by the group with
hearty laughter, in which the ambas-
sador joined.
GAS a matter of fact, many of the
messages alleged to have come from
his government to him, and to have
been received and transmitted by him
in despair to our government, were
actually prepared under his personal
direction, sent to Berlin by cable
through Swedish channels, and then for
warded back to him by wireless from
Nauen.
THE ambassador &ho had received all
courtesies from our government, the
recipient of unusual honors from
many of our universities, indebted to
hundreds of Americans for exceptional
and continuous hospitality, never once
lifted his voice to his Foreign Office in
opposition to any order for the carry
ing out of propaganda activities in
this country which involved the loss
of hundreds of innocent lives.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03

than half way He added: You don't
we can bring to bear on Mr.. Bryan.
for example, through his church affil-
lations, and through many of our
good friends who are close to the Ad-
mlnlstration. Anyway, we want you
to make the suggestion to the Presi-
dent when you see him this week You
will find a great many forces moving
along in that direction before the
week is over"
Mr.. Rathom offered to repeat this
conversation to the President, but
Boy-Ed declared the source of the sup
gestlon should not be known. Rathom
refused to agree to this, and the mat
TER was laid before the President on
Wednesday, May 5, 1915.
On the same day the German prona-
gahdists all over the United States be-
gan fresh campaign for an embargo
on arms" Mr.. Rathom goes on. The
announcement was also made, on the
same date Of tho" beginning of a cam
palgn to finance new German paper
IN New York to fight against further
munitions shipments, and the Germans
on that date also began an endless
chain petition to the President. urging
an extra session of Congress to act on
an embargo on the shipment Of arms.
The suggestions put out by Captain
Boy-Ed were directly in line with four
or ilvc attempts made by the Germans
IN this country through other channels.
to keep the Administration believing
that Germany was anxiously seeking
some basis for peace.
Careful examination of our wireless
reports showed constant and sus-
picious connection between many LARGE
commercial and shipping houses in the
United StatcI and the German FOREIGN
Office. Further investigation disclosed
the fact that the code numbers and
combinations of letters being used by
the German Embassy in its messages to
Berlin were in many cases duplicated
by messages sent out from the
Atlantic Communication Company thc
ostcnsible owner of SaySillc(. the
Siemcns & llalske Company, OF
New York. tho Hamburg American
Lime and North German Lloyd Line
aud many other concerns. Starting
with this knowledge it soon developed
that the great strength Of the German
propaganda system in this country, and
its control OF so many avenues of in
formation about matters which it
should have been of vital Importance
Tor our government to conceal. were
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03

Ed, at the latters invitation, at which
the captain asked his advice on how
to reach American newspapers with
German propaganda, and finally offered
him $4,000 a month and a bonus of
$4,000 for six months, to undertake
the work This offer he refused. Boy
Ed then said, in effect:
owe want you, when you see the
president, to lay before him the sug-
gcstion that he reconsider his attitude
reeardlng the embargo on arms. We
want you to suggest to him that if
either he or Mr.. Bryan will 20 so far
as to publicly declare to their fellow
citizens that, while there is no breach
OF neutrality in the making of arms,
they would beg manufacturers not to
indulge IN the practice any further, he
VIII very materially hasten the coming
OF peace by reason of our desire to
meet hm more than half way
81 said that did not understand his
meaning, and wanted some further
light on his proposition. Captain Boy
Ed then continued:
eff the President will make th;s
pea 10 american manufacturers, and
If it results in the stopping of traffic
the German government will set in
notion at once the preliminary ma
ch!nery Tor peace negotiations. The
only basis for any present negotiations
VIII be the stoppaEe Of the arms and
ammunition traffic between this coun-
Try and our enemy. You can tell the
president that this proposal is based
on that proposition, and that if the
embargo is carried through effectively
Germany viii begin negotiations i'm
mcdIatcly, and will agree to withdraw
from Belgium and from the occupicd
portion of France. We will not CON
slder the payment Of one dollar in
indemnity, nor will we consider GIVING
up any part of Alsace- Lorraine. Ger.
many viii agree to rebuild, in as good
"a condition ne they were before the
war, all public buildings destroyed in
hclgihn towns, and that is all. We
have specific reason for wanting
thcse facts laid before Mr.. Wilson from
outside sources What do you think
Of It?' ''"
~ told Captain Boyd that !
thought he must be crazy. and sur-
gcatcd that il the German Embossy
or the German government had nny
propagation to mako to The Prcsidrn,
OF the United States they had their
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03

largely due to the fact that these great
commercial houses were nothing more
than outposts of the German Foreign
Once, heavily subsidized and acting
directly under the orders of their home
offices in Germany, which in turn took
their orders from Foreign Office Of
tcials.
Zone of the first discoveries made
by The Journal was the existence of
chart drawn to resemble family
tree, the trunk of which bore the label
OF the Foreign Office, spreading from
inns trunk were three branches, and at
the bottom of each branch the words,
'Ielefunken Co. The first branch to
the left was labeled "Gesellschaft fur
Drahtlose Topographic, Berlin; the
second bore the words 'Siemens &
iialske, Siemens- Schuckert- Werke, Ber-
lin and the third. 'Allgemeine E.ek-
t.izltats Gesellschaft, Berlin Spread
ing from each of these three branches
were limbs bearing the following
names:
From No. /: Atlantic Communica-
ton Co. (Sayvillc), New York. Aus
tralasIan Wireless Co., Ltd, Sydney
IAustralial; Teiefunken East Asiatic
Wireless Telegraph Co.. Ltd. Shang-
hIal; Maintz 4 Co. (of Amsterdam
- Dettf''ld \JaNa) f, hermann &
Co. (of Hamburg), Manila; B. Grimm
q Co, Bangkok; Paetzold & Eppinger,
Havana; Spiegelthal, La Guayra; Kru-
ger O. Co., Guayaquil Brahm g. Co.,
Lima; E. Quicke, Montevideo: r.
Schulbach, Themer & Co. (of Ham
burg), Central America; Sesto Sesti.
Rome; A. d. Zacharion & Gle, Athens:
j. n. Dlmitrljievic, Belgrade.
From No. 2: Siemens Bros. G. Co..
Ltd, London Siemens e. Halske, Wen
ma; Slemens & Halske, Petrograd: Sic
mems Halske Ok. G. Frank, New
York; siemens- schuckert- Werke, Sofia;
Slemens-Schuckert-W erke, Constanti
nople;, Siemens Schuckert Werke
(Dansk Aktsielskab), Copenhagen: Sic
mems Schuckert- Werke (Denki Kabush-
Ikl kalshe), Toxic; Siemens-S chuckert
"erke (Companhia Brazileira de Elcc-
trcldade), Rio de Janeiro; Siemens-
Schuckert. Ltd, Buenos Ayres: Sic
mems -Schuckert, Ltd. Valparaiso.
From No. 3: A. E. G. Union EIec-
trique. Brussels; Allgemeine Elek-
trizitats Gesellschaft, Basel; A. e. G.
Elecktriska Aktiebolaget. Stockholm.
A: 4. q. Electricians Aktieselskahet
A. E. G. ThomsonHous-
ton lberica, Madrid; A. +. G. Compania
MeXlcana, Mexico; A. f. G. Electrical
Company of South Africa, Johannes
burg.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03
Able to Underbid
All Competitors

This tremendous network of great
electrical concerns, all of them in turn
having sub-agencies and all being d.
feetly connected with radio and tele-
graphic communication of every de-
scnptlon. was continuously at the ser
wee of the German government.
hanks to heavy government subsidies
1hese concerns were able to underbid,
and did underbid, their competitors in
the price of installation of radio
plants throughout the American con-
tincnt. and in many cases, before the
construction of such plants, we dis
covered that they had successfully i'm
posed their Will on various Central and
South American governments by insist
ing on selecting their own locations
for the construction of these plants.
The most interesting discovery
made IN this connection by our repre-
sentatlvcs was that during the time
while the United States government
was planning series of wireless sta
tons throughout the Philinpine
Islands. the Gesellschaft fur Drahtiose
lelegraphie, in Berlin, branch of the
great Ielefunken system, sent to it's
branch IN New York City and to its Of
lce IN Manila represented by tho firm,
OF German 4 Co. of Hamburg) n long
communication setting forth that the
wireless stations to be constructed bv
the United States government in tho
Philippines must be bid for at such n
low price by their agents that there
would be no possibility of their losing
the contracts.
The letter adds: We have worked
out this project on the basis of con-
iident'al adviccs from the FOREIGN
Ollice, and beg ynu TO treat the esti-
mates and lists and data as confidcn-
tiai, and particularly the man nc
companying this former man
ager of the Atlantic Communication
Company notified us that the def
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03
Their Ship Lines
Linked With Foreign Office

., me damburg-American Line and
me North German Lloyd Line, in addi-
ton to being under the direct snner-
VISION OF Captain Boy-Ed (who prac-
ucally had charge of the movements
OF all the ships of both concerns1.
MADE regular reports through their
nome offices to the Foreign Office in
beflln. Among these reports were ac-
.uuhIs OF disbursements, not only for
we legitimate outlay of a steamship
company but also for the unl1een n
two large bodies of secret service ;,gep man ~,
VINO TOOK charge of all fraudulent mass
port work for the German covernment
ana an, who, between the outbreak of the
european war and the time of our
own entry into the war. Skinned
on Swedish and Dutch vessels
large number OF German reseryjst
officers, and also of German"arn9v off,
GERS. from this country. The latter.
through bribery. were allowed to es-
cape from Siberia after having been
captured by the Russians, and were
brought through Japan or China into
the United States. held in boarding
houses IN New York and shipped with
false passports to Europe as opportu-
nifty offered.
"These great corporations were used
also tor other purposes by the German
and Austrian governments and the en-
bassies in Washington. A plot to blow
up the Welland Canal was worked out
IN the Hamburg Amerioan offices by
Paul koenig, chief Of the secret ser.
vice of that company. In an attempt to
fool the American government, hum
dreds of wireless messages. ostensibly
relating to steamship matters, but
really secret government codes, were
col ]
signed by these steamship and electri-
cal concerns under orders from Won
Bernstorf, in whose Office such mes
sages originated.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03

nna'"H' at inc soyvuie m
ou '" h',Hl Every until
tina
referring nt nnaly
page Tho
to voyage
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03
Some Are Still
In Business

"The Atlantic Communication Com
pany, caught red-handed in a great
number of deliberate violations of neu-
trality during its operation of the Say
vile wireless plant, and filled with
dangerous German spies, is still, at this
writing. carrying ON business in New
York City, with Offices at a West
Street.
The firm of Siemens & Halske, an
other spy outpost of the German For.
cign Office, rAbi2ly pro German, and
working solely for German interests
still conducts its business in New
York City, at 90 West Street.
Members of both OF these firms have
been permitted to acquire American
citizenship.
The Hamburg American Line and
North German Lloyd Line have been
eliminated from the commercial HE
of the United States within the last
few months, but they have numerous
subsidiary steamship lines which are
still carrying on business in this coun-
tiy.
Truly, Ambassador Won BernstorH
was not Understanding the boundlesss
credulity OF n democracy when he sag
once in his embassy, in a burst Oh
pardonable pride in his ability TO max
the American people believe what ne
wanted them to believe: In dem lanae
der unbegrenzten moglichkeiten iss
allies moglich!' (m this land OF un-
limited possibilities everything is pos
sible!D"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03

mite understanding with reference
TO this matter was as follows:
Our superior knowledge of radio
must be set forth in arguments ia
convince United States radio officials
that the stations should be where wa
have designated them on this map.
regardless of their own desires in the
matter, SO as to make it certain that
II Germany comes into control of the
Ihiilppine Islands the radio stations
snail be in the most advantageous po-
sitions for the work of our govern
ment
The map accompanying this re-
markable communication was a blue.
PRINT which contained locations of
hfty-four named stations, and a letter
Win the prices, in marks, which the
Manila agents of the corporation were
to quote for the work to be performed
at each station.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03
Bcrnstorf in
Role OF Martyr

A point il made Of the role Of mar
tyr which Won BernstorT assumed as
soon an relatione With this country be
gan 70 he strained
"Eeturnjng 10 the cnpba4zy from n
yjs't 70 Seeretary Lansing on April 10,
1915, after the attack on the steamshiD
Snssez BY German submarine" M.
ksthom wrItes, me said 10 prinz
Hatzfeldt, ia the presence Of Baron yon
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03
a Hint as to How
information Came

Mir. Kathom merely hints ut The
means by which the information as to
the plots came TO him, saying tina,
many bohcmians and Southern Slays
had taken the great risk Of counter
espionage all without pay. He prom
'ses more details Of this later.
.. -Four months of listening in on tho
sayvilie and Tuckcrton wireless eta.
tlons through one Of the best equipped
ana highest powered stations on the
!sorth American continent from the
oay the European war began" he SAYS
had also brou9h. 10 us an immense
mass Of information concerning the
propagand'st activities, not only of
German and Austrian aliens in this
country, but also Of hundreds Of Amer.
ican citizens Of German and Austrian
birth. PROM many II tAcsc hitter we
wHrc able 70 secure ii great quantity Of
material, particularly whcn, az we we're
frequently able TO DO. VIZ started many
of them in active rccriminntion apa;ns,
one another"
Mr.. kafhom then dcscribcs at length
an interview he had with Captain Boy.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03
Overcome With
Chief and Regret

Cline after time he, with Won Papen
and Baron Won Schocn, glcefully cele-
brated the destruction of munitions
plants in this country. When word
came that the Lusitania was sunk,
and Bfrnstorff's press agents reported
him as being overcome with grief
and regret in fashionable New York
hotel, he was at that moment actually
giving a supper party elsewhere in
New York, and during this supper
party the destruction Of the Lusitania
was hailed as glorious triumph for
German naval prowcss. During the
evening Won Papen, touching glasses
with his chief made the remark:
"'This IS the end Of the mistress of
the seas"
"While Won BcrnstorF directed
everything that was done in connec-
ton with the blowing UP of factories,
the placing Of bombs in freight ships,
the poisoning Of mules on transports
and all the other movements aimed to
terrorize the United States and to para
I'VE traffic with tn. Allies, he invari-
ably kept himself away from any con-
ferenccs concerning details of these
plots, and the most elaborate precau-
tons were always taken, whenever it
was possible, to get him out of the
way at inc tlmc Wncn Sucn outrageS
were scheduled."
Mr.. Rathom describes scene where
BernstorH, preparing to go to Mr.
fryan, then Secretary Of State, with
false afidavits charging the British
with using dum-dum bullets made in
the United States, rehearscd his pro-
test to one Of his secretaries
Am impressive enough? Is my
statement forccful enough 2" he finally
asked, and the man Teplied:
Most forceful, your cxcellency."
IF it appears that way to you" said
the ambassador, eve will have no
trouble with the big-mouthcd (gross-
mai,lichen) gentleman"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03

the President or Secretary of State
could be induced to approach the Ger
man Am bassador or the German For
eign Office with question based on
the lines suggested, his government
would at once acquiesce and go more
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03

regular diplomatic channels through
which to- make it,
=. captain BoyEd replied that the
German government could not direct
~ or indirectly put itself in any DO
sltlon Of making the first move. but il