The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1918-08-29
$4,000, 900 SPENT FOR GERMAN
PLOTS IN THE UNITED STATES
Official Account of German Intrigues
During the Period of Our
Neutrality.

That the German government spent
between $15,00O000 and $20,O00,O0O
on plots and intrigues in this country
in the years of 1915 and 1916 through
single channel, the office of Doctor
Heinrich F. Albert, the commercial
attache of the German embassy, is re-
vealed for the firt time in the latest
publication of the Committee on Pub
lie Information, released today.
The title of the pamphlet is Ger
man Plots and Intrigues in the United
States During the Period of Our
Neutrality" Its authors are Profess
sor E. E. Sperry Of the University of
| Syracuse, and Professor Willis M.
West of the University of Minnesota.
The sources from which their infor-
nation is drawn are the official files
of the Department of Justice, and the
records of the trials conducted by the
Department Of Agents, particularly
in New York, Chicago, Detroit and
San Francisco
The story told by these official rec
ords as they are painstakingly ex-
planned and interpreted is an amazing
one. 1t dots the "i's" and crosses the
cts" to all our conceptions Of official
German unscrupulousness, effrontery,
and lying. 1t deals with labor lead
ers corrupted, and strikes caused in
munitions plants by German inf1u-
ence; with the German financing of
the movement for an embargo on mu-
nitions shipments; with the destruc-
ton of innocent merchant vessels by
bombs planted in their cargoes by
German agents in American harbors;
with plots for the promotion of sab
otage 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
I forging of passports to send German
reservists abroad; with the supply
from American ports Of German raid
ers at sea; with German plots organ
4 lied here in order to cause revolt in
India and in Ireland; with the procur-
alton of perjury and the shameless
lying Of the German government. Per-
haps history contains no instance OF
effrontery greater than the issuance
of the American press, in December,
1915, of the following official lie:
"The German government has nat
urally never knowingly accepted the
support of any person, group of per-
sons, 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 authority.".
Every line of this pamphlet proves
the falsity Of this official German
statement.
Among the Germans actively con-
nected with plots and intrigues in this
country while enjoying it's hospitality
were Ambassadors Bernstorff and
Dumba; Attaches Papen, Boy-Ed and
Albert; Franz Bopp, German Consul
at San Francisco, and Kurt Won Refs
WITT, Consul at Chicago, DR.. Buenz
and Paul Koenig of the Hamburg
American steamship line; and such
minor conspirators as Rintelen, Fay,
Gorst, Scheele, Kleist, and a dozen
others. The numerous American tools
include Ex-Congressman Frank Blu
chanan, who was active in the move
ment for strikes and the munitions
embargo; Lamar, the "Wolf Of Wall
Street," DR.. William Bayard Hale, to
whom Count Bernstorff referred as
4 one who could "give information" con-
4 corning the embargo movement; Max
Breitung of Chicago and Albert Kolt-
/ schmidt of Detroit, who were connect
1 ed with attempts to promote explos-
4 ions; the notorious jeremiah O'Leary,
Irish agitator and editor of a seditious
publication called "Bull;" George Syl-
vester Viereck, whose paper, the
"Fatherland," was financed by the
/ German Embassy, and host of
/ others.
4 Of the bomb industry, with its 300
to 400 bombs manufactured, and fires
in SO ships sailing from New York,
we get this glimpse in the testimony
of witness in the case against Cap
tain Won Kleist, in the New York
courts: eve sat down and we spoke
for about three hours. l
asked him the different things that he
did, and said if he wanted an inter
view with Mr.. Won Igel, my boss, he
would have to tell everything. So he
told me Won Papen gave DR.. Scheele,
IL the PARTNER of Won Kleist in this fac.