Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-03-21

OF great talent and impressive per-
FonaHty lie told me Of the finding
OF quantity OF high explosives,
marked by a little buoy. In one OF
the secluded bays OF the coast. And
that dan, a German had been ar
rested who had mySteriously APP
pearod ut Spanish port dressed as
workman The workman took a
first class passage TO Madrid. west
30 the b.st hotel and bought a COM
plcie ou'nt Of fine clothes. I'm
dpubtodly he high explosive as well |
~ the mysterious German had been |
landed from a German submarine.
whether tho explosive was destined
Ra depot for submarines or whs to
hclp oyorurn the spanish govern
ment was hard 10 gueHs, but Count
RomHnuucs was worried over the Ac-
uyity 81 the German agents In Spain.
| IN has been very easy for Ger
man agents IN America 10 communI-
Icatc with Germany thru this sub
marine post from Spain TO Germany.
the letters from America being sent
TO rlta and thence on spanish boas
Ito spain
/ Encounter with German Spy.
A. an times since the war the
Germans have had a submarine post
running direct from Germany to
Spain Shortly after our arrival In
spain Mrs Gerard received mys-
tcriously lrtter written ny q friend
Of hnr- German baroness, In Bcr-
luu This letter had been undoubted-
ly aout thru the very efficient spy
system.
Some time in 1915 German sol
der. In uniform speaking perfect
English, called one day at the EN-
hnssy IIe said that his name was
lrAlc and that ne had at one time
worked for my fhther-in- law, tho
late Marcus Daly. or course. we
had no means OF verifying his state
ments and Mrs. Gerard did not re-
member any one OF that name or
recall Bode personally lie said
that no was fighting on the cast
front and that he had "A temporary
leave OF absence. | gave him some
money and later we sent him pack
nEes OF food and tobacco to tho
front, but never received any ac-
knowledEement
In Madrid one Of my assistants,
, Frank Hall, while walking thru the
street ran across Bode, who was
fishionably at,ired. His Scallins
cards stated that he was mining
, engineer from Los Angeles. Cal lie
, told Hall n most extraordinary fairy
story. saying that he had been cap
, turcd by the Russians on the east
front and sent TO Siberia, that from
, Siberia hc had escaped to China
, and from there he had gradually
worked his way back to America
, and thence 10 Spain
OF course, without any definite in
formation on the subject It is Inn
, possible TO say exactly what he was
, doing In Spain Hut ! am sure that
II IL far more likely no had landed
, from German submarine on the
coast OF Spain and that no was pos
ing M an American mining engineer
for a particular purpose.
| told certain people In Spain about
'Bode, and OF his intention 20 visit
tho mining districts OF Spain. where
, numbers OF men are employed. Bode
must have suspected that | had civ
en- Information about him. for Han
and | received several postcards OF
, a threatening character, evidently
r from him.
4 My cables to and from the state
r department passed thru our lega-
tion at Copenhagen, and. of course.
IL the Germans knew Dur cipher
. these messages were read by them
r on special occasions I made use OF
1 super cipher. tho key TO which I
- Kept I'm safe In my bedroom and
n which only ono secretary could use
r The files or cipher cables sent and
[ received were kept In a large safe
In the embassy Hut before leaving
\ Gremany, knowing the Germans as
A | did and particularly what they
had done in other countries and to
other diplomats; knowing how easy
1t would be for them to burRlariSe
the safe after we left, when the
Spaniards and Dutch were out of
the building at night | tossed all
these dispatches M well ns the code
books Into a big furnace fire Com
mander Gherardi and Secretary
Hugh Wilson stood by and person
ally saw that the last scrap was
= burned or course, copies OF all the
\ cables are In the state .ment
= German spies ara adopts at OPEN
y Ing bags, steamirk letters all tho
\ old tricks, The isieat way to BATTLE
: them is to writ nothing that can
u not be published TO tho world.
For long time after the begin
> nng OF the war | was too busy 10
!, write the weekly report OF official
- gossip usually sent home by diplo.
: mats. suppose the Germans
~ NArched our courier bags for such
l. report vainly. Anyway, It's alb.
Is sence finally got on the nerves OF
y Zimmerman 30 much that one day
Y he blurted out, Don't you ever writ,
81 reports TO your government"
"A Sealed letters are opened by sple,
~ by inserting a pencil or small round
object In the envelope. steamed :
~ little, II necessary, the envelope n
n opened at the end flap and the con
ID tents pulled out without disurblrI
N the seal, the cohtents are then read
put In their place again. the enc
flap relnserted. It little gum used an,
.t the envelope is hs intact az befora.
q The only safe way TO seal an en-
l. velope IL seju every section Of IN,
Ic flap Even then clever spy car
Il open the letter. read tho content
"A and seal It again. This Is done b,
'e cutting thru the seals with A no
'e raZor--the divided seals are then re
~ united by passing the hot razo
= against each side Of the cut and ther
:, pressing the two parts OF tho Gu
=, seal together. This Is. however.
Io very delicate operation and doesn'