New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1918-08-24
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PLOTS IN THE UNITED STATES
o"c'ai Account of German Intriou.,
During the Period of Our
Neutrality.

That the German Governu.
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plots and intrigues in this cour.r = :,
years 1915 and 1916 through sin =,
nsnnei' the office of Doctor Heinrich J
ioef'' the commercial attache Of III
GERMAN embassy, is revealed for the srs
tune in the latest publication of =,
committee on Public information -.
leased to-day.
Inc title of the pamphlet is ",;.r
man Plots and Intrigues in the 1yni+sl
otates During the Period of Our Ns,.
"aiity." Its authors are Professor F Y
opeffy OF the University of Syracuse and
Professor Willis M. West of the Uni
versity of Minnesota. The sources fro,,
which their information is drawn AZ.
the official files Of the Department Of
justice, and the records of the trials
conducted by the Department agents.
particularly in New York, Chicago, De-
uiot' and San Francisco.
The story told by these official records
Is they are painstskingly explained and
interpreted is an amazing one. 1t dots
'ne is" and crosses the "t's" to all orr
conceptions of official German unscrup-
ufousness, -effrontery, and living. II
deals with labor leaders corrupted, and
strikes caused in munitions plants by
German influence, with the German e.
nancing OF the movement for an en-
oargo on munitions shipments; with the
destruction of innocent merchant YES
sells by bombs planted in their carpoes
by German agents in American harbors
with plots for the promotion of sabotage
IN the United States and in Canada, in
Guiding the blowing up of the weIlana
Canal and the Canadian Pacific Railway;
with the corruption of American opinion
through the agency of German paid pro-
lessons, newspapers, and lecturers; with
the forging of passports to send Ger
IMAM reservists abruad; with the supply
from American ports of German raiders
at sea; with German plots organized
hee in order to cause revolt in India
and in Ireland; with the procuration of
perjury and the shameless lying Of the
German Government. Perhaps history
contains no instance Of effrontery great
er than the issuance to the American
press in December, 1915, of the follow
ing official lie:
~The German Government has nat I
urally never knowingly accepted the t
support of any person, group of persons, I
society or organization seeking to pro-
mote the cause Of Germany in the Uni Z
ted States by illegal acts, by counsel
# violence, by contravention of law, or
y any means Whatever tnat could 3D.
end the American people in the pride =
i. their own authority"
Every line of this pamphlet proves f'n
hs falsity of this official German state FA
nent.
Among the Germans actively connected oie
vifh plots and intrigues in this coun-H
y while enjoying its hospitality weree
AMBASSADORS Bernstorff and Dumba; at
lches Papen, Boy-Ed and Albert :af
rsnz Bopp, German Consul at tSafupp
rancisco, and Kurt ven Reiswisz, Con- er1''
i at Chicago, DR.. Buenz and Paul Koe, W
6 of the Hamburg American steamship s7s'
ae; and such minor conspirators a Z
intelen, Fay, Gorst, Schelle, Kleist,. an T.
dozen others. The numerous Amert
= tools include Ex-C Congressman Frank
aehanan, who was active IN the move Yf
mt for strikes and the munitions en- p
sgo; Lamar, the AWolf of Wall M,
zeet"; Dr.. William Bayard Hale, ID ~ :
ION Count BernstorH referred as onf &c
2 could give information" concerT a
/ the embargo movement; Max Bri ciuI
e Of Chicago and Albert Koltschm1 "a
Detroit, who were connected with ~
npts to promote explosions; the
ious Jeremiah oLeary, Irish agiff
editor Of = seditious publican
led "Bulr; George Sylvester WICK ARM
ose paper the "Fathezland" n n r
need by the German Embassy. nd
{ Of others.
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n Wan1n .n.msnan~A way