Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-22

The American secret service officer
tore off the wrapping, revealing pile
Of pamphlets wliOse headlines screamed,
"Let's Go Home!" 1t tUas bolshevik
propaganda for distribution among the
restless, homesick troops of the Army
OF Occupation.
MEANTIME in or out Of bridgehead area
SO promising q trouble hatchery as Dues
seldorf hardly remained uninvestigated by
curious Americans. Before starting there from
Berlin, Minor dropped hint in hearing Of an
American secret agent posing as a Spartacist.
Then in Coblenz, sergt. siegfried got into
row with his commanding officer. That was
surprising for Siegfried was fine I. p. Ger
man-born enthusiastic over his native lands
change from empire to republic. With Ameri-
can initiative and German thoroughnesS he
ferreted out suspects, violators Of the lenient
American regulations. Among good Republic
can Germans, to be sure he had friends but
every one was shocked when one day pub
licly his commanding officer accused Sieg-
fried of selling them Army stories at profit.
Siegfried sputtered and got angry, denied the
charges, forgot discipline, cursed the Army.
Ordered in arrest, next morning he had eS-
capped.
Too bad thought every one; good man gone
wrong. His commanding officer agreed
few days later this officers telephone rang.
1t was the British secret service chief in
Cologne.
We've some surprising word from Duessei-
IA~f nkaN Is
to have deserted and joined up with a gang
of Bolshes there that we think are planning
trouble"
Don't talk over the telephone" the Amer
lean cut in. "I'm driving over to see you"
One night two weeks after Siegfried had de-
serted closed sedan drove across the American
bridgehead boundary, into unoccupied Ger
many. It turned up small lonely road,
following the strange and unmistakable tracks
of car that had preceded. They led into .
wood, where beside dilapidated German auto
mobile with wire wheels, stood figure In rough
civilian clothes. He lifted from the car heavy
package.
"E4ERE they are sir" he said, "three thou
sand Of them. The printers just got
started, and this is only the first batch
The officer tore OF the wrapping, revealing
pile of pamphlets that screamed Lets 70
home!"-of course, in English. why can't
you go home now?" they were headed and the
reply was: You are being kept in Europe to
prevent the rule Of the working people, who
have always got the hard end of it from the
capitalists" There was lot more, and signed
by the German Communist Party"
Pretty raw stuff" the officers said "But
our troops are feeling pretty raw, and it might
work with some. It did at Archangel You
say theren be more?"
Eyes, sir" the man chuckled. I'm the mee.
senger to deliver EN-, in this German car"
New propaganda new from the hidden press
to Dusseldorf, and their trusted messenger re-
ported to the Archangel group that he was de-
hvering 1t to the allied troops along the Rhine.
They must be ripe for revolt.
So several of the group started by night
circuitously from Dusseldorf toward Cologne
At place where there had never befofe been
British sentry, through the early mist ghostly
figures closed in. One man ran for 1t, the mes
senger. Rifles flashed but in the fog ne made
his escape. The others entered Cologne sur
rounded by British bayonets.
Meantime, in Dusseldorf, soldiers of repub.
lcan Germany dumped into police head
quarters, to emerge escorting very white-faced
chief. There too one member of the group
escaped, the Dutch woman who had been his
mistress.
The British gave them an excellent trial al
though the outcome was somewhat forecast by
Siegfried's story of the meetings he had par.
ticipated in. posing as rabid Red American
deserter. He illustrated it with pamphlets
5000 of which he delivered to the Americans
He testified not as Sergt. Siegfried but as Lieut.
tinguished Conduct Medal. The Americans rec.
commended him for our D. S. N, but like other
I. P.s thus honored, he never got it.
tCopyright, 1881 =.