The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-07-17
PUBLICITY PLOT
|. KNOWN LONG TIME
Germany's Plan to Control
New York Newspaper
Unearthed in 1915
DISCOVERY BY
u. 8. SECRET SERVICE
Scheme Was Engineered by DR.. Helm
rich Albert Whose Habit Of Taking
Maps on Subway Trains Enabled De-
tectives to Secure German Documents.

WASHINGTON, July E.-Uncovering |
of the Vaccinations of the German prop
uganda system which was at the height
of its activity at the time Count Won Bern
storffs was sent home is expected to show
in detail, as time goes on, the marvellous
ramifications of vast system that was
presided over in general by the German
ambassador and directed in detail by DIR.
Albert and his assistants.
The Department of Justice had full in
formation as to DIR. Albert's plans near
" two years ago, and the facts concern
ing the purchase of the New York Mail
are not new to the government, while they
may be new to the public. The primary
purpose of DIR. Albert's work in the Unit
ed States in 1915 was to outwit the allies
on the high seas, particularly Great Brit
ain
| DIR. Heinrich Albert had been privy
councillor of the German embassy and fis-
cal agent in the United States of the Ger
man government He maintained an office
in the Hamburg American building, at
IS Broadway, New York, and there was
the center of all Germany's financial ac-
| Invites in the United States. Through him
flowed the stream of money sent to this
country and paid to spies and to him
went the money that piled up from the
sale of German bonds. His close confdant
was the German Ambassador, with whom
he had Joint account of several millions
at the Chase National Bank.
The revelations now being made were
rendered possible through DR.. Albert's hab
it of taking short maps on subway trains
/ United States secret service agents hat
been watching him for some time in 1915
when one evening OH a subway train IN
lawoke from a nap and discovered tina
his dossier was gone. That portfolio con
tanned mass of varied documents. From
these the government gained its frs
, knowledge Of the vastness and extent o
German propaganda in the United States
That was in August, 1915.
The interesting fact about these doc
J uments is the bearing they gave upo
I the revelations now being made with II
spect to the Evening Mail. They Shove
that DIR. Albert was then laying plan
to purchase an English paper in Me-
: York, although the paper had not bee
selected which was to pass into Germa
t hands.
These documents proved that the agent
{ of Germany deemed it necessary to own
newspaper in New York, primarily I
help create sentiment against Great Bri
ain The dossier contained also a report I
7 DR. Albert by newspaper man of the e
: timated cost of establishing news bureau
!, in New York and Berlin which wou
4 circulate news in this country favorab
to Germany. DIR. Albert gave muC
; thought also, as disclosed by the dossie
I to the plan of sending newspaper corr
: spondents to Berlin for the purpose
?, sending matter favorable to Germany f
|. publication in this country. This was dol
l. under orders from Bethman- Hollweg, the
f German Imperial Chancellor. 1t was abo
: this time that a letter from Profess
Albert of Vermont University, a nam
= sake of the master agent, was intercer
It ed on its way to the German Chancellc
n urging that official to make every pos
4 Bile effort to influence the President
v favor of Germany.