Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-31

name the Goals of wrath which mad heor
burning in the breasts OF Americans
since the revelations made by the dis
eovery of the contents of DR.. Heinrich
Altert's portfolio. the recall of Captains
Won Papen and Boy-Ed and the arrest
In virtually every community in tae.
country of one or more German plot
tiers. Harrison Grant received n copy
Of the note from the wireless room of
the Criminology Club as 1t was sent to
the Department of state. and he was
probably the first person in the United
States to voice the opinion which be-
came universal after the note was made
public.
''This means war he commented to
his trusted aid. C~avanaugh, who had
brought him the message.
This means war" said Count Won
Bernstorff. the Imperial German ambas-
eador, when with blanched face he had
finished reading the note. couched in the
insolent terms which he knew only the
Great One of Germany himself would
be permitted to use in diplomatic inter-
course. Won Bernstorf turned pale at
the thought of war with the United
States, for he alone of all the trusted
advisers of the Kaiser knew n apprc-
ciated the powers of America.
hi means war" was the verdict
reached by every American rs he read
the note in the newspapers, a verdict
prompted by the fearless patriotic pride
which beat in every breast. Then the
Individual American waited, reading
zach new development in the diplomatic
engagement which followed with bated
breath. waited for the decision which
each felt was inevitable.
But there was nc period of waiting
for Harrison Grant, nor the members OF
the Criminology Club. Dixie Mason and
the other members OF the Secret Service
had no time to walt for the decision.
Every other investigating branch of the
Government worked at high tension, for
every one who had been engaged in the
secret welfare with German agents knew
that once war became inevitable the
Kaiser's spy army would throw caution
70 the four winds and make the might
ies, efforts to bring wanton destruction
In every name possible. ,.
Grant felt that there could be no doubt
in the mind of Bernstorff that war would
result from the note and the conditions
to place. upon American COM
merce. The night It was received he
inology Club. and 1t was attended by
Dixie Mason.
Men. the supreme test Of the worth
Of our organization has come" said
Grant, addressing the meeting. The
next few weeks will see the German spy
army in The United States striving by
every desperate means at their command
We must not fail in this supreme test.
Beginning tonight we must shadow
every member of the spy army In the
country. His every action must be in
vesfigatpd. every person 10 whom he
speaks must be regarded as a suspicious
character. That is ali. You viii find
your assignments In your letter boxes.
Harrison Grant had selected Heinric
Won Lertz as the spy for whose activities
he would be responsible, End Dixie
Mason had accented the post of keeping
succeeded in gaining her liberty from
the tombs under bail, after the discovery
of the invisible ink messages on her
body by Grant and Mrs. Blank Before
either of the spies they were watching
had made a suspicious move. reports
were received from other operatives that
the Judgment of Grant that Germany
was prepSring Tor a hreak WAS was c OF tbe
Kaiser in America had received orders
direct from Washington which took them
to the informed ships of Austria and Ger
many in all the harbors of the United
"Not one of these ships must be useful
to the United States in the event or
war" was the order delivered to each
interned boat.
Where it Is pos
= Germany Orders sible engines must
VI Destruction Of be destroyed, other
Ships wise the boat must
be sunk. Make
plans now n
when the wireless lanes are filed with
dots, just dots. then let the work COM
mence.
Nothing could be lon to prevent the
consummation of this plan for the holds
OF informed vessels were forbidden prop
erty to the Secret Service under inter
national law. SO. despite the fact that
II was known from many sources that
these We're the orders which had been
sent forth TO every Austrian and German
commander who had a boat In an Amer
lean port, the best that could be done
was to station operatives near every
interned boat to rush aboard the minute
war was declared.
For several days Grant and Dixie had
little TO do except stay near the New
York Offices of Heinric Won LertZ. Each
morning he would go there and spend
the entire day until evening, then go
to the Hohenzollern Club. Apparently
he had NJ part in any of the affairs
which were engaging the other members
of the Kaiser's spy army in America.
He saw no one and received none but
the most ordinary messages.
Then he suddenly became active. One
evening Just before ne left his office
he sent a long code message to Wash
ington. The next morning before the
message had been ~deciphered for Grant,
Won Lertz received a summons and went
to Washington. Then he returned and
started by automobile on a trip in which
he employed every dodge he could think
OF, but Grant, Dixie and Sisson kept
him in sight and at last found a real
clue to his plans.
The three stood in the office of a
small railroad station in a suburb of
New York. firing Cr~oss-questions at the
worried, frightened station agent. For
hours they had been questioning him, at
y frst without result, but at last TO see
Z the gradual breaking down of his de-
tense. One by one he had been forced
~ admissions--irst that he had known
the man they had Swallowed to the sta
ton, Heinrlc Won Lertz secondly, that
he mad given this man a ticket for
4 another city, just In time to allow him
to catch the fast mail that had stopped
there for orders, and third. that he had
received orders from Heinric Won Lertz
5ust before he had boarded The train.
"What were those orderEy r Harrison
Z Grant had asked the question fifty times.
F~orty-nine times the station agent had
refused to answer. But now:
go ahead with the plans that we
q had made
'Plans for what?"
.~Wiretapping"
Ion the Pennsylvania system. My
self and several others had figured cut
q system whereby We could tap the wires
leading from the dispatcher's offices. mix
UP the orders and cause wrecks all over
the system. The Pennsylvania is a big
soldiers after war has been declared
And we wanted TO injure 1t as much as
Y DoESible."
10 say. nothing OF causing the deaths