New-York tribune., 1918-03-18

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bureau at Chicago.
tached to a car which was TO ro
through the tunnel. He was a dvna-
inter, conspirator and potential
murderer.
Trail Leads to Embassy
II wish to make it very plain here
that every plot in the United States is
directly traceable to the German En-
bassy and through the embassy to the
Imperial German government.
Not only was the German Embassy.
: with Bernstorff at its head, an active
part Of the machine, but every German
ofnclal IN the country was linked up
WIN 1t. There are now as every one
knoWs, German consuls serving sem
tences tor perjury and conspiracy
The German Embassy was back Of
every scheme and back OF every spy
and plotter-eXcept one.
he exception is Won Rintelen, who
worked as free lance, who was re-
sponslb!e only to the German govern
ment Tie was super-spy who worked
alone. Only in few cases do his in
terests touch the German Embassy.
ne Hamburg American and the
North German Lloyd were centres of
German cOnSplraCleS-
me Friedrich der Crosse, lying in
3NeW York Harbor, was turned into a
bomb factory in which were manufact
ured 400 bombs for distribution among
IN me SHIPS about TO leave the country.
! hlrty three ships sailing from New
ork mad to tlght fires because of these
weapons The remainder Of the fac
tofy output vas sent to New Orleans.
10 ,.,,q B,,qqston, and-I think-to Norfolk.
ne saamburg-American Building at
20 broadway, New York City, was the
most dangerous sub-centre Of con-
spiracy, of forgery and of perjury in
the country. Its employees were en-
gagged IN every sort Of conspiracy pos
siole. And the plots included not only
the rank and file of the organization,
but some of the highest officials. DR.
buenz, a doctor of philosophy and a
former consul in Mexico, was man
agalng director of the concern in
America He is now in an internment
eamN as a dangerous enemy alien
Business of Forgery
Closely connected with the embassy
and with the Hamburg American Line
was an office maintained in New York
Tor the forgery of passports The
German Embassy paid for the estab-
ushment.
- NHpCHer bureau maintained by the
German government was the German
Employment Bureau in New York Citv.
Hans Llebeau, director of the bureau.
asserted that he never received any
money for his work. The books show
that he was paid $75 a week.
However, according to his own tes-
tImony, this bureau. established early
IN 1915, was ostensibly for the purpose
OF OF glvlng Germans employed in NUM-
tlcns factories an opportunity to find
more congenlal labor. The embassy
paid $4,000 a month for it's support and
the Austrian government contributed
$l,2Op month. Supposedly organized
tor the purpose of finding positions for
Germans who found it against the grain
to work IN munition factories. making
explosives for the Allied governments,
the bureau kept up for time the de
hghtful side business of stirring up
strikes.
ut is estimated that this bureau
succeeded IN drawing 5000 men out of
munitions factories during its exist
ence
And the two big men responsible for
its organization were Professor Hugo
Munsterberg, the great psychologist of
harvard University, and Professor
kaeneman, German exchange pro-
fessor enjoying the hospitality of this
"Now, little about the activities of
German agents in respect to the rela-
tons between the United States and
foreign countries.
"Von Rintelen came over to this
country as a pacifst. He told the ad
vertIslng men with whom he hooked
up to further his pacitist schemes that
ne intended to stir up trouble between
TINS country and Mexico. Also. if he
could, between this country and Janan
"ln this work German agents on this
side of the border spent 5000 900. In
the meantime, Heinrich Won Fckhardt
OF the embassy in Mexico, had formed
league Of German citizens TO carry
on campaign of hate for America
Paul koenig was perhaps the clev-
crest spy in the employ of the German
Foreign Office. He had a rule book
which have seen which was a sort of
testament for spies. He never tr,,sted 11's Cd
a single spy. In fact when he sent
a man oat, he Immediately sent an
other to watch the first. That was one
OF his making. He had ORIGINATED
what | believe one Of the neatest svs-
TENS for telephoning information that
/ have ever seen.
Hans Tauscher's Role
"lfans Tauscher, husband Of Mmo
Gadskl, the singer, was implicated in
these. He was agent for the Krupps
in this country and was incidentalIv
connected With the Welland Canal plot.
He knew the inside Of the entire
scheine, but was acquitted by the Jury
on the testimony that while ha knew
that money Was being used to make
purchases of this nature ne did not
know the intention Of the purchasers
In this connection Kurt Won Reie-
wiSz, consul general at Chicago, spont
$4,000 for ore Of the expeditions and
Won papcn spent $4,000.
Every consul general in the countrv
has been part and parcel Of the Gernnn
espionage system. The Hindu plotters
sent fifteen kilograms to Berlin
through the embassy, asking for advice
and money"