Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-01-17
THE SERPENT'S TRAIL
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found out an answer In the ledgers OF
the New York banks. 1t was money
that had its origin in Berlin.
Morse Presses Inquiry.
Do YOU see? Can you imagine what
1t would have eliminated in had the
French government been without TINS
report which the New York state at
to.ney general $ ofIlce sent 1t; had the
Bolos, the Malvays the CaillauX and
their creatures in the chamber OF
deputies been free to go on with the
"defeatist opaganda-which they
would have, no doubt, had not New
York's investigation turned up the
trail for the French secret service 10
follow down.
Ambassador Jusserand had cast the
die---''Let the investigation go on
SO there came a second trip to Wash
mgton, following an official accept
ance of the report from Perley Morse
by Attorney General NJ Il. Lewis. Ac-
companied by Morse they went to the
state department. Here Morse called
the attention of the officials that up
wards of $4,000, 000-in securities
that the Deutsehe bank had had on
ished Just prior to Americas entering
the wa Where they had gone and
for what were these vast sums OF
money being used? He likened these
funds of the Deutsche bank in New
York to the hub of a wheel; and the
wheel had spokes radiating out in all
directionS--to Canada, to the middle
and the far west, to the south, to
Cuia. to Latin America. 1t was the
trail of the huge German corruption
fund and the state department was
amaZedg
Corruption Wheel Found.
From Secretary of State Robert
Lansing'S offices the trio from New
York called upon Ambassador Juss-
rand and the report was formally de-
livered by Attorney General Lewis.
AS he accepted it for his government
the ambassador said: Il see from
your newspapers, little items here and
there, that the news is beginning to
leak out from Paris. | think 1t well
that you give the matter the fullest
publicity"
At the time this was done to GER
tain extent, as Attorney General Lewis
himself says, "only to the extent that
ii was deemed advisable at the time,
did | do So"
but now that peace has come, all
may be told. There followed third
trip to Washington. So impressed
was Attorney General Lewis by the
qualifications that the Bolo investiga-
tons had developed that he sent
Morse, accompanied by Deputy At
torney General Becker to Washing
ton to confer with the department
of justice. Here Morse went into
consultation with John Lord O'Brien,
then in charge of German propagan-
da Investigations. He showed O'Brien
how $50,000,000 of Deutsche banks
securities had vanished from New
York banks. What was the money
being used for today? Who was get
| ting it? O'Brien was impressed and
called Bruce Bielaski into the con-
! ference. Bielaski asked Morse how
| it would be possible to find out what
had become of the great slush fund.
! 1000 Accountants Asked For
I at would be necessary said
! Morse, ito go into all tho banks
where the money of the German gov
eminent has been on deposit and run
| down every transaction to its source.
| Turn loose 1000 skilled accountants
| for often what appears to be the
source is only the halfway mark in
| the transaction. BY checking up ev-
| cry item, 1t is possible to uncover
everything. In this way you can
| learn who are responsible for the
/ munition plant explosions the tieups
i and lockouts by which industry and
manufacturing have been shackled
all the insdious activities of German
spies, propagandists and agents in
! this country. These people are not
doing these things without being paid
Find out where the money went and
you drive the unseen out into the
| OPEN
Bielaski deliberated.
How much is it going to COST he
Lasked.
| That's impossible to estimate. You
don't know how much work will
have to be done. There are already
| leads that go down into Cuba"
Seeking shorter Way
Make an estimate" persisted Bic
laski
ooh, 100000, perhaps $500 900"
THAT is too much money"
Then he asked Morse il there
quicker and less expensive, for get
ting at the German doughbaE
YES" replied Morse. Get hold
of this Hugo Schmidt. He did the
! Juggling of the Deutsche banks
/ money here. He must have key
ledger. That would help to trace, the
| funds but with nothing like the ac-
curacy that complete uprooting OF
all the German banks accounts
| would bring about"
But as, to how these things all
come to pass
On Feb &c, 1916, Count Won Eerns-
| to If wrote out wireless message to
| Herr Won Jagow. secretary for for
eign affairs at Berlin. The MESA &c
was put into the secret code of the
Wilhelmstrasse and went sparkling
over the ocean from the great station
/ on Long Island to Berlin.
What BeInstorff Flashed
DECIDED in the foreign office, II
was turned over to the pale and
somewhat effeminate Won Jagow and
he read:
II have received direct information
from an entirely trustworthy source
| concerning political action in one
/ of the enemy countries which viii
bring peace. One of the leading po-
litical personalities of the country IT
question is seeking a loan of Sl.700,-
600 in New York, for which security
will he given. was forbidden to give
his name IN writing The affair
seemed to me to be of the greatest
possible import Can the money BIZ
provided at once in New York? Thai