The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-28

to the educational value of our con-
tinued efforts and to the newspaper en-
terprise which produced great number
Of stories printed in our newspaper.
THE belief that the Providence Jour
nal has specifically brought to justice
any of these individuals creates an I'M
just impression and does take away from
the Department OF Justice the full credit
10 which 1t is entitled for this work. We
sincerely regret that this situation has
arisen and frankly declare that while we
have presented a great deal Of material
OF every kind to the Department of JUS
tice. we have never been able to state
that in any specific case We were adding
materially to the departments own
knowledge of the situation, and we have
aimed always to give the department
Immediately the benefit OF any infornla-
ton which has come to us which we
thought would be of any value to it.
Information Sources Hidden.
1.-The Journals knowledge of great
many matters has been of such a con-
fidential nature that we have felt COM
PEELED to cover them by Intentionally sug-
costing sources which did not actually
exist One specific illustration OF this Is
the statement that the Journals own rep
resentatives were placed in the German
and Austrian embassies and In several
foreign consular offices throughout the
United States.
"It is not true that the Providence
Journals own representatives ever oc-
cupied positions of this kind. II is.
however, true that in many instances
they were enabled, through members
of the Bohemian National Alliance and
the Serbian and Croatian National Soci-
cites. to secure information of an inn
portant character from these embassies
and consulates
THE suggested interview between
Capt. Boy-Ed and Gen. Huerta In a
New York hotel was printed by us in
good faith. the entire material having
been supplied to us from n source which
we considered trustworthy. We have
since ascertained. however. by confer
ences with officials of the Department
Of Justice that it Is doubtful if such
meeting was ever held. and that in any
case no report of any such meeting was
ever forwarded TO the President of the
United States. 1t came to our men sec
end hand.
II am positive that tho stenographic
report of my Boston speech. In so far
as it attributes to any of the activities
of our representatives the arrest or in
ternment of Paul Koenig or any OF the
Hamburg American line employees. is
inaccurate. AS far as we know the Gov
eminent officials are alone responsible
for the Hamburg American line arrests.
Bremerton Navy Yard Plot.
''The statement by an unfair context
wrongly attributed to me in my Boston
speech concerning Dr. Goricar's knowl-
edge Of a plot TO blow up the Bremer5on
Navy Yard Is improper in that Cd it
suggests a plot to blow up a navy
yard. whereas DIR. Goricar's instructions
simply were to make Investigations of
the location and activities of that yard ;
and CD because this particular incident
related to period prior to the begin
ming of the European war Every state
ment printed by the Providence Journal
with regard to DIR. Goricar and his rela-
lions with this Government Is true.
with regard to the activities and con-
viction of Cousul-General Bopp in San
Francisco. we did not have any repre-
sentative of the Providence Journal in
Bopp's office. nor did the information fur
nished by US, as far as we know, figure
in Bopp's conviction, although we did
succeed In securing and publishing a
great many interesting details with re-
gard to this case, not only through Ca
madam sources but through our own
staff; nor was any OF the material de-
yeloped by our staff in this case furnished
to the department. with the exception OF
most important affidavit the existence
of which. as we have been notified only
during the past few days, was known at
the time to the department.
with reference to the statement in
my Boston address regarding the cele-