The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1917-19??, 1918-08-24

S2O,OOO,OOO SPENT FOR GERMAN
PLOTS In THE UNITED STATES

on plots and intrigues in this country
single channel, the office of Doctor
in the years 1915 and 1916 through a
Heinrich F. Albert, the commercial
attache of the German embassy, is
revealed for the first time in the
latest publication of the Committee on
Public Information, released today.
The title of the pamphlet it Ger
man Plots and Intrigues in the United
States During the Period of Our
Neutrality" Its authors are Pro-
fessor e. E. Sperry of the University
of Syracuse, and Professor Willis NJ.
West of the University of Minnesota.
The sources from which theiI in
formation is drawn are the official
files of the Department of Justice,
and the records of the trials conduct
ed by the Department agents. par
ticularly in New York, Chicago, De
troit, and San Francisco.
The story told by these official
records as they are painstakingly eX-
planned and interpreted is an amazing
one. It dots the 'f's" and crosses the
IT'S" to all our conceptions of official
German unscruplousness effronteTy
and lying. 1t deals with labor lead-
ers, corrupted, and strikes caused in
munitions plants by German influence
with the Germa 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
sabotage in the United States and in
Canaga, 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
forging of passports to send German
reservists abroad; with the supply
from American ports of German
raiders at sea; with German plots
organized here in order to cause re-
volt in India and in Ireland; with
the procuration of perjury and the
shameless lying of the German Gov
.ernment. Perhaps history contains
no instances of effrontcry greater than
the issuance to the American press,
in December, 1915, OF 'he 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 III
the United States by illegal acts. by
counsel of violence, by r0ntrayention
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 jnrigucs in
this country while enjoying its hos
pitality were ambassadors Rarnsi|lff
and Dumba; attaches Papan, ~ y~l1d
and Albert; Frame E9pp. GeYman |
Consul at San Francisco, and knrt
Won Reiswitz, Consul AT Chicago, DR..
Buenz and Paul Koenig of the Ham
steamship line; and
such minor conspirator3 as Rlntelen,
Fay, Gorst, Scheels, Kleist, and
dozen others. The numerous Amerl-
can tools include ExiCongfessman
Frank Buchanan, who was active III
fhe movement for strikes and the
munitions embargo; Lamar. the
wolfe of Wall Street Ir. William I
Bayard Hale, TO whom Count Bern
storff referred as one who could give
concerning the embargo
Max Breltung Of Chicago
and Albert Koltschnidy of Detroit,
who were connected with attempts
to promote explosions; The notorious
Jeremiah O'Leary, irish agilator and
editor of a seditious publication call
ed "Bull"; George Sylvester Fiercck,
whose paper the "Fotherland' was
financed by the German Embassy, and
a host of others.
OF the bomb industry, with its 800 T
10 400 bombs manufactured, and fires
n 33 ship sailing from New York, we
get this glimpse in the testimony OF
, witness in the case against Cap \
ain Won Kleist, in the New York
courts: "We sat down and we Spoke
'or about three hours asked
lim the different things that he did,
md said if he wanted an interview
With Me. Won Igel my boss. he would
nave TO tell everything, 50 he told
ne Won Papen gave Or. Scheele, the
partner of Won Kliest in this factory,
check for $4,000 to start The bomb {
factory He told me that he, Nh.
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