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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-10-31
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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-10-31
PERSHlNG .VERIFIES
AIR RECORD REPORT

WASHINGTON. Oct jl,-General
Pershings evening communique Tor
Wednesday reports officially the down.
ing Of twen,y-one enemy airplanes by
pursuit ,quadrons Of the first American
army and states that two OF the Ameri-
can machines are missing. The dis
patch adds
-On the Verdun front the day wa.
marked by heavy artillery fire east oI
the Meuse. An enemy raid on on
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-10-31
w.lt.r, Building Completed

The new welfare builing erected by
the Wilson Packing company will be
opened next Monday II |, thoroughly
modern and completely equipped for
the comfort of the employees MIDDAY
programs consisting Of music and
speaking will be given by Mrs Helen
Riley Tanner, an ordained Baptist min
lister, who has had wide experience IN
community work in Chicago and San
Erancisco.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-10-31

will then retire>from Hungarian rep
resentation, Count Karolyi becoming
Hungarian foreign minister, thus com
pleting tie separation OF Austria and
Hungary.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-10-31
DUTCH SOLDIERS
MUTINy, REPORTED

' AMSTERDAM, Oct. 5t-Dutch sol
diers encamped at Hartskamp mu-
tinied last night, according to the Tele-
graai. The trouble was due TO dissst-
isfae,on with food conditions
The soldiers are said TO have plum
de-ed the canteens and set fire to the
Barracks. The reports say that in the
ensuing fighting several men were
killed bf Wounds There is no coniir-
nation of this It IS said order has
been restored
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-10-31
Counts Snlit Honots

AMSTERDAM, Oct. A.--By mutual
agreement between Count Michael
Karolyi, the head Of the new Hunga-
rian government, and Count AndraSsy
the latter fills the post OF joint Aus
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-10-31

,ro- Hungarian foreign minister only
to arrange for certain changes " the
diplomatic situation
According to a Budapest dispatch to
the Weiner Gazette, Count Andrassy
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-10-31

lines east OF Beaumont was rcpulsed.
Patrols we're again active and brought
IN nrisoners."
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
He Left His Letters
For His Wife to Mail

Still my adventures was equal to
the occasion. She brought me what
l wanted-not all, but enough.
She found that the man still wrote
his letters at home, and that fire.
guently he left them with his wife to
mail. Often she would have them in
a little pile, on a table, or in her
hands when my agent called. It be-
came game with the adventures to
rurloin one or two of them. She sue
cceded. Every few days she would
bring me letter or two.
Exactly how she managed to get
them | do not know. She said she
sometimes had to open the desk to
get them; that at other times, while
the wife's attention was engaged
elsewhere or she was called out os
the room to answer the telephone, a
letter or two was distracted from the
convenient heap and never missed.
Neither the man nor his wife
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
By C. Pilenas &C. P. Wilkins)

foreign
LAS that the and and attractive
~ Of war must travel hand and entirely
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21

liner had round tables in the dining
saloon as we'll as the usual long
tables. The tops could be turned,
unscrewed and then lifted off. There
were tables of this sort in the smok-
ing room also.
And the revolving chairs! Their
supports were also hollow, many of
them! Thanks to this discovery the
British were able to apprehend this
steamer also on the high seas and
put an end to it's operations.
The contraband running of rub
ber was carried to great lengths by
neutral sailors, who would secrete
it on their persons and carry it
aboard ship undetected. Every
sort of rubber article that could be
made small or would bind around,
so as not to bulge the clothes and
attract attention, was utilized for
contraband when such contraband
WOIk was dC lCS uelSnC.
Louis Timex was active in this
business. He made visit to my
house on his arrival from Liverpool
with $4,000 in his pocket given him
by the German government. He
considered me good peasant" He
was employed on the French Line as
a stevedore Immediately on his ar
rival-but not for long. He is now
in prison!
At later-much later-date,
when the history Of the war is writ
ten from the American side, what
mess there will be of sordid and
shady intentions and practices along
with bona fide patriotism and self
sacrifice!
For instance, much of the contra
band gains could not have accrued
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
ters, working in crews of three &C.,.

ters, working in crews of three f.u
and five. -'ss
These sorters were chiefly Dan;s,
officers, and most of them came s.' o,.
from Philadelphia. In one part;.u
lar instance which l shall mention ;.
illustrate the organization tb..s
were nineteen persons, seven of +h.,s
women, all young. After the ,et+s.~
were sorted in the fifth floor anar.
raent they were shipped to an .d
dress in Halifax in two steams.
trunks, by express. Then it'll.
later the whole party sailed on
Scandinavian liner. When tber
reached Halifax the trunks were d.
livered addressed to one of the party
on the liner. No inspection was
made of the trunks, which cam.
aboard as ordinary baggage.
The distribution of the let+o,.
would begin on the arrival Of II.
liner at the first Scandinavian no,+
and continue in the same manno,
until they reached Copenhagen III.
letters would be turned over to Gov
man emissaries who were waiting tn
receive them and carry them to Ger.
many.
Such an organization would haya
been extremely successful had thera
been no weak links in its chain
However, had several agents at
each of the ports, likewise in the
pay of Germany, who brought thu
important letters to intelligence off.
GERS of mine to be photographed and
"doctored." And I had another
source of information.
l have mentioned that seven Of
this party were young women. Il
was one of the weaknesses of the
"transporters" to have these young
companions, and not always the
same ones, either. They were by
no means ''patriotic ladies'" They
came for pleasure and profit usu-
ally. 1t was not difficult to reach
an understanding with them; it
cost money, that was all.
Similar letter Transportation"
was conducted by one of the Ger
man newspaper Offices in New York.
AS long as the stations and sub.
stations continued in business there
was little likelihood of anything Of
Importance getting through to Ger
many, and as answers were usually
brought back through the same Office
was frequently in possession Of ad-
vance information of very great
value.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21

except for the determination of
stranded German reservists to get
back to Germany at any cost, how
ever and whenever the opportunity
offered.
Fancy one German contraband
Transporter" for mere gain, with no
other motive than to turn to ac-
count and make a fortune of the
extremity of his c6untrymen, send
ing in little while more than seven
hundred reservists back to Germany
at profit to himself of about $50
the head!
IT. is not dream.
Among these was man who
claimed to be naturalizcd
American and ran shipping Of
flee in South Street in New York
City in the year of 1916, and pro-
vided over seven hundred German
reservists with fraudulent passports
that got most of them safely back to
Germany.
| How did he do it?
He bought passports from sailors
Of neutral countries and managed to
fix them up with substitute photo
graphs of the rescrvists.
Passports cost him dollar or so
each; and he sold them for up to
$100 and more. Scandinavian names
being enough like German names to
seem to fit the reservists, passports
issued to a Scandinavian were most
often used.
This man ran saloon in Brook
lyn. His wife was a Swede. In ad-
dition to his saloon he ran the ship
ping business in New York, on the
third floor Of a dilapidatcd building.
The office was in charge of a Ger
man reservist who could scarcely
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21

GOOD deal heard about fraudulent passports By
III aOhch Germans slipped through the British lines IN
the gears before the United States entered the ava and
about the smuggling of information and volabe materials
INTO Ge,amy But practically nothing has get been made
public about these activtes and not "on the inside"
had any idea of the magnitude Of the operations.
IN this article Mr. Pilenas tells the qUhole amazing
story for the first te-amd also the still amazing
story of ho the British agents here actually able to
the great German organization for their purposes.
of the most ntemse interesting chapters of the
secret history of the
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21

and attractive, she was very intelH-
gent and entirely conversant with
the affairs of the day. And she could
keep her wits and her eyes always
alert to secure the success of her
assignment.
In the course of her visits she no.
ticed that a scrap basket was fire.
quently pretty full of torn papers,
fragments of letters and of memoran-
ola, and it became her practice to
secure as many of these as could be
seized and hidden on her person dur
ing the occasional short periods when
the wife would be out of the room or
have her attention diverted.
1t took some time to piece these
scraps together. Many of them were
useless, too many parts being miss
ing, but we did secure several valu-
able bits of information. We pieced
together cipher code and some ma
rine intelligence. And we made good
use Of them.
In fact, we were able thereby TO
catch some of his ships. One was
very big catch, having aboard over
100000 worth of coal. By the inS
formation we gathered from the
papers my agent took out Of the bas-
ket in the apartment we planned a
meeting between this ship and Brit
ish warship camoufaged for the pur-
pose. The man planned to supply
coal to an enemy ship in a certain
latitude. Instead, it was met by the
British and taken into custody, hav-
ing on board contraband coal, rubber
and automobile parts, to the value of
over 100000.
The gentleman from Buenos Ayres
took his losses very much to heart.
knew he had been hurt because he
thereafter burned every paper or
scrap of paper. He coul y not have
suspected my agent; in fact, I am
fairly confident that his wife did not
tell him anything about her. But he
nust have intuitively felt that the
scraps of paper were in some way to
dc with his troubles.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
Scorned Tools
Who Worked for Them

1t became almost an art by itself
to have intercepted letters opened,
and then resealed so that none might
suspect their having been tampered
with. I can say that l pract;sed that
art second-handed with genuine
pleasure, although l had to enjoy it
all by myself.
cannot say that I was ever
CALLED to more than a degree by the
ingenious egotism of certain gentle
born refugees from the military
front, who, having soft places tor
themselves where it was safe, made
use of any tool, however crafty or
nasty, to gain an end, while affect
ing lofty scorn for the tool and what
It" did for them.
Every man has some CROSS roads
! that turn aside at some transactions
In other words, every man finds there
is something he will not do. ! my
self have never personally opened 8
sealed letter, even in the way OF Sc
cret service, but l confess to the Pc
culiar weakness of having found
amusement in making use OF LOFTY.
born, high principled "hangers-on
cf the service whose mouths were
ever open to scorn the deeds Oh
"tools" that brought them glory!
On occasions too numerous to de-
tail I have by f1attery engaged sucn
gentlemen" in the pastime OF open
ing transported" letters, until ~
became veritable art with them
would not have opened them mysen
any more than they would have aon0
some of the things they affected
dcspise; neither would l have sousn'
safe post, far from the firing i','s
or the danger line that misu.
plume my colors before a sapins
c,owd-when there was n'SD
work waiting!
Speaking of such gentry 'n''
were certainly plentiful beyond ies
on in some quarters, and useless -:
a point of danger. One such inel
sence officer entertained casuai a
quaintance overnight in his fo0l
and the following day one o. ~
agents in the way of business reco'
cred the papers which the h'sn'D'f -
gentleman had lost in the cou''e
MS adventure. ,..s
1t belongs to the story to 'sss .m.
that the gentleman was mol ~
GENTLY alert to discover his loss ~ :.
himself. He actually had "
shown what had happened 70 n. ~
think he is now "at the front Wv.
War for his mistress, less o.s s.
tive one than his last--at iessS
was started for that destinau'as
Copyright. 1915. ots =.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
HOW PASSPORT WERE
FORGED; ATTEMPTS TO RUN
THE BRITISH BLOCKADE

knows to this day how 1 secured the
intelligence that broke up his snug
Cling business.
learned a still more pertinent
thing from his letters. They gave
ME positive information that he was
paymaster for Germany to its agents
and had been for long time.
After Won Bernstorff was sent
home this paymaster had trouble
some times-and he was put to some
difficulty to get the necessary specie.
Here again we find German eff
cheney and ingenuity working togeth-
er from practically two ends of the
world. The United States having de-
clared war against Germany, that
country becomes unable to pay it's
agents by funds deposited here. 1t
has to provide money, standard
money, and distribute it in the ene-
my's land. From Berlin directions
are sent to a South American coun-
try that its consul shall bring coin to
New York City periodically and de-
liver it to the paymaster in his own
apartment. The consul comes to New
York, fulfils his mission as ordered
and returns to South America. He
comes again and again and he does
not get caught!
For one reason! The paymaster
has never told soul a word of ad-
vance information of the consul's ar
rival. He has trusted nobody in the
matter, not even his wife. If he had
told her anything about it my eff
cient agent would have discovered it.
Ii he had written letter and left it
with his wife to mail it would have
come into my hands. But he has done
none Of these things. He has been
very secret and reticent and so the
consul is at liberty.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
Any Day the
Consul May Come

But something has happened 1t
may not be important and may
mean nothing, but it has been nine
weeks and more since the consul
made his last visit to the paymaster.
The paymaster is worried. He daily
expects him. But he has not arrived.
Any day now the consul may put
in an appearance, and he will prob
ab]y be in custody by the time this
art;cle appears in print.
The most successful plotters Of
all were the Danes. Being so sue
cessful they naturally made much
money out Of it; and that melted
them always to greater exertions and
initiative. They had their sub-sta-
tions all along the coast. The fur
thest south was at Wilmington,
South Carolina, where they char
tered ships to carry contraband to
Bremen. They certainly got lot of
ships through safely, but became so
we'll acquainted with their men and
their plans through my own agents
that soon a number of their best
ships and cargoes were caught, which
put kink in the profits and cooled
their Danish ardor accordingly.
] must tell you about two Scandi-
ravian ships that I inspected that
were used by the Danish plotters
to get rubber over to Germany.
think their methods were ingenious,
but we caught them.
On each side of the stairs leading
to the staterooms on lower deck
they had two closets rugged up to
give the impression that they were
used for sleeping compartments when
the ship was crowded. There were
three collapsible berths on each side
of each closet, six hunks apparently
They kept the hunks down on one
side and up on the other. Why, do
you suppose? Because behind the
beds that were not down was door:
a door that was covered when the
beds were up, but which was at once
observable when they were down.
The British Boarded
The Ships at Sea
! / opened one door. That is, l had
q steward open ia steward that |
had paid we'll for information. What
do you think found? Rubber and
rubber and rubber! And what
found in the one closet was practi-
cally duplicated in the closet on the
other side of the stairs.
Behind the wall reached by this
door was another closet full of rub
ber goods of every variety imagina-
BILE.
We considered this good days
work. l gave information which en-
abled the British to find what they
were after when they boarded and
searched the ship at sea.
On another Scandinavian liner the
Danes were even more ingenious.
From another source l got the in
teIligcnce that very pretty plan
was being carried out by dining
room strategy.
Every dining room table was sup
ported by huge leg, like the old
fashioned four-leggcd pianos had.
had table lifted and found the leg
That supported it was hollow and
filled with contraba nd rubber. This
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
They Struggled
Both Goods and Men

They put through goods and
men and correspondence. The latter
was essential to every branch of
their service. They had to keep their
lines of communication open some
how, regardless of cost. There was
no alternative but to do so, or quit
operations in this country. They
went to every extreme to help them
selves. They stopped at nothing.
With my department met them and
fought them all along the line.
For instance, got word of gen.
tleman living in New York in an up
town apartment. My Investigations
revealed the fact that his business
was in Buenos Ayres, although for
some reason unknown he was making
his home in New York. That he was
sat this work ] had every reason to
suspect from his behavior and his
extreme caution in all small matters
which might give clue to his oper-
ations. For long time we could
not even get look inside his apart
ment, for he had instructed his wife
never to receive any one in his alb
sence.
Among my women agents was a
very cultivated and beautiful Ger
man adventures, whom could de-
pend upon in way. / had her man.
age to meet the gentleman frequently
in front of his abode. We learned
his usual hour of departure, and that
his wife invariably watched him as
far as she could see him from the
window; and we drew the natural
conclusion that she might develop a
little harmless jealousy if tempted.
That we were right enough in these
assumptions was amply proved by
events.
The lovely adventures had no diff
Guilty in attracting the gentleman SO
that a few words were exchanged be-
tween them several times within
sight of the watching wife.
: She was not proof against such at
t,actiye competition.
We also calculated that she would
not fail to cultivate acquaintance
with her possible rival if the chance
were given her. Therefore I had
my agent meet her casually, but in
such manner that they easily and
naturally fell into conversation. An
invitation to the apartment followed.
Soon had my agent visiting the
lady continually--always in the alb
sence of the Buenos Ayres gentleman
49, and ON excellent, il somewhat
c4uiyocal, terms.
NY agent was not only beautiful
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21

4 LAS that the p0mp ana pageant
~ Of war must travel hand in
hand with the mean and the
sordid, but it seems to have been ever
so. The soldier goes where glory
awaits him at the cannon's mouth, by
a hand grenade, a gas bomb, or a
bath of liquid fire; while back in a
safe place somebody is piling up un-
told millions to found "family" by
the manufacture of war stuff and
smuggling of contraband, or strate-
gies that have to be met by his ad-
>ersaries with any and every weapon
they can bring to their help.
Ethical battles have ragged here in
the United States since the very be-
ginning of the war in 1914. AS such
they have been more influential, done
more to shape events, at least some
OF them, than the violent, destructive
battles of France and Belgium.
Here grew the very crux Of the
Bolshevik revolution; here Bern
storff, backed by a host of propagan-
dists, using countless tools of both
sexes and any nativity, brought the
United States finally into the war.
Through all these contests my
branch of the Department of British
Military Intelligence fought the
kaiser's minions tooth and nail. We
were without the power to make the
most of our victories; and they were
practically immune from punish
nent. The weapons they used CO.
verify were more or less connected
with smuggling.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
Every Garden a Munition Plan"
Charles Lathrop Pack. President
Next Week-OLeary and the
American independence Society
sAmes MONTGOMERY x.anc

Much has already been heard of Jeremiah OLeoyu the
american independence Society," and the German propaqando
dwm9 the last Presidential campaign Neat qveeh The
1'aone w" p"ohsh the story hmoaom By the na, quho
aooched the 10hoe affair." for the British qoveyu7net od
a0ho had at least of his agents inside euery oqoznom
and conspiracy invoved
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1918-01-31
TO ARREST OWNERS OF
ALL UNMUZZLED DOGS
Sheriff Decides TO Follow New Course
in Enforcing the Quaran.
tine Order

Sheriff Duffy has issued in
structions to his deputies to rig
idly enforce the dog muzzlinp
quarantine. Heretofore enforce.
ment has been attempted by kill
ing all unmuzzled dogs found
running at large. In the future.
however, instead Of inflictinp
the extreme penalty on the dog.
the owner is to be made to ans.
wer for the violation. The quar-.
antine law provides for fine or
Imprisonment or both of any dog
owner who violates it and it is by
invoking this provision Of the law
that the sheriff hopes to compel
a strict observance Of the states
order.