The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-09-16
$4,000, 900 SPENT
FOR GERMAN PLOTS
IN UNITED STATES
Official Account of German Intrigues
During the Period of Our
Neutrality

NVulldhlys
That the German government spent be-
tween Sl5,000,000 and $20,000,000 on
plots and intrigues in this country in the
years 1915 and 1916 through a single
channel, the office of Dr. Heinrich 7. Al
bert, the commercial attache of the Ger
man embassy, is revealed for the first
time in the latest publication of the com
mittee on public information, released to.
day.
The title of the pamphlet is German
Plots and lntrigues in the United States
During the Period of Our Neutrality
It's authors are Professor +. f. Sperry of
the University of Syracuse, and Profess
sor Willis M. West of the University of
Minnesota. The sources from which
Their information is drawn are the official
flles OF the department of justice, and the
records OF the trials conducted by the de-
partment agents, particularly in New
York, Chicago, Detroit and San Fran
cisco.
The story told by these official records
as they are painstakingly explained and
interpreted is an amazing one Ii dots
the is" and crosses the ITS" TO all our
conceptions of official German unscrupu.
| lousness, effrontery, and lying. II deals
with labor leaders corrupted, and strikes
caused in munitions plants by German
influence; with the German financing of
the movement for an embargo on NUM-
lions Shipments with the destruction Of
innocent merchant vessels by bombs
planted IN their cargoes by German
agents in American harbors; with plots
Tor the promotion Of sabotage in the
United States and in Canada including
the blowing up of the Welland canal and
the Canadian Pacific railway; with the
corruption of American opinion through
the agency of German paid professors.
newspapers and lecturers; with the forp.
ing OF passports to send German resery.
sts abroad; with the supply from Amer
lean ports of German raiders at sea ;
with German plots organized here in or
der TO cause revolt in India and in Ire. |
land; 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 natural. |
ly never knowingly accepted the support
OF any person, 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
contravention of law, or by any means
whatever that could offend the American
people in the pride Of their own author
ityh
Every line Of this pamphlet proves the
falsity Of this official German statement.
Among the Germans actively connected
with plots and intrigues in this country
while enjoying its hospitality were Am
bassadors Bernstorff and Dumba; At
taches Papen, Boy Ed and Albert Franz
Bopp, German consul at San Francisco,
and Kurt Won Reiswitz, consul at Chi
cage, DR.. Buenz and Paul Koenic Of the
Hamburg American steamship line; and
such minor conspirators as Rinteen, Fay.
Gorst, Scheele, Kleist and dozen others.
The numerous American tools include
ex Congressman Frank Buchanan, who
was active in the movement for strikes
and the munitions embargo; Lamar, the
Wolf of Wall Street; DIR. William BAY
ard Hale to whom Count BernstOrff re
ferred as one who could give informa-
tion" concerning the embargo movement;
Max Breitung of Chicago and Albert
kotschmidt of Detroit, who were CON ,
nected with attempts to promote explo- !
sions the notorious jeremiah OIeary,
Irish agitator and editor of a seditious ,
publication called "Bull"; George Sylves- !
.er Viereck, whose paper, the " Father
and was financed by the German en-
Dasay, and a host Of others :
OF the bomb industry, with its 800 to /
700 bombs manufactured, and fires in 80
'hips sailing from New York, we get this
glimpse in the testimony of witness in
he case against Captain Won Kleist, in
he New York courts: I'VE sat down and
We spoke for about three hours.
asked him the different things that he
lid, and said if he wanted an interview
With Mr.. Won Igel, my boss he would
AVE to tell everything. So he told me
Ion Papen gave DR., Scheele, the partner
# Won Kleist in this factory, a check for
10000 to start the bomb factory -
lie told me that he, Mr.. Won Kleist, and
Dr.. Scheele, and a man by the name of
becker on the Friedrich der Crosse, were
making the bombs, and that Captain
Volpert, Captain Bode and Captain
'teinberg had charge of putting these
'ombs on the ships; they put these
ombs in cases and shipped them as mer
handise on these steamers, and they |