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Show Money Furnished by Germany's Ambassador Ambassa-dor for the Purpose of Destroying Life and Property and Committing Com-mitting Long Series of Dastardly Crimes. HOLLAND SHOWN AS GERMAN AGENT Letters and Documents Seizezd in Raid on Wolfe von Igle's Room Involve Americans in Conspiracy; Justice Cohalan Makes Denial. WASHINGTON, Sept. 22. Further disclosures of far-reaching German propaganda, intrigues and plots in this country prior to the diplomatic, break with Germany were made today by tho committee on public information. . In a bulletin styled lt official expose," ex-pose," the committee quotes numerous letters and extracts from letters soized by the department of justice in April, 1916, in a raid upon the New York office of-fice of Wolfo von Igel, Von I gel, in carrying on his manifold pro-German and anti-American activities, the documents docu-ments show, was in constant touch with the German embassy and with Count von Bernstorff, German ambassador to tho United States. Widespread Plot. "In tho form of letters, telegrams, notations, checks, receipts, registers, cosh books, cipher codes, lists of spies and other memoranda and records, " the committee says, "were found indi cations in some instances of the vaguest nature, in others of tho mobt damning conclusiveness that the German Ger-man imperial government, through its representatives in a then friendly nation na-tion was concerned with - ' ' Violat ions of the laws of the United States. "Destruction of lives and property in merchant vessels on the high seas. "Irish revolutionary plots against Great 1'ritnin. Fomenting of Ill-feeling. ' ' Koine n t i jig i ll-f eeling against the United States in -M ex ico. ' ' Subornation of A meri ''an writers and lecturers. "Financing of propadanda. ".Maintenance of a upv system tinder the guise of a commercial investigation bureau. "Subsidizing of a bureau for the purpose pur-pose of ftirring up labor troubles in mu-Dit mu-Dit intiH plant h. "The bomb industry and other ro-lated ro-lated activities. ' ' Case of Holland. The. committee, of whirh Secretaries Landing, linker and Wani'ds are members, mem-bers, and (ieorge ( reel, chairman, has this to say concerning Holland: " It has long been an open isecret that Holland is merely a way station for shipments of contraband into (ierinnny. Hern is official confirmation from the Von Jgf'I records which would seem to indicate a auspicious and confidential relation bet wen tho 'Jl'dland commission' commis-sion' and the lerni an di pi inn a tic ot f i-cial? i-cial? accredite, to this country or pus-sihlv pus-sihlv a belief by the Germans that they could not ?ucce-fully get the munitions to their own country. The message in cod'1, with interlinear t ra n-)n t ion is entered en-tered as 'A and headed 'German ernbai-sv. Washington, . (.'., April (3, 11 1 ii, ' " Tt runs as follows: ' ' 'Telegram f rf"n TWlin by secret, round-about way or Carl Hnysen: Con- (Contiiiued on Page Five,) SPIES 10 TRAITORS WORK II HARM (Continued from Page One.) sent sale Holland three hundred thousand thou-sand chests (cartridges) and two hundred hun-dred tons powder. Please get in touch with Holland commission. Sender, war minister, foreign office, in representation. representa-tion. ' ' f Signed) HATZFELOT. ' ' 7 Prince Hatzfeldt was aji official of the German embassy. Innocent Pretending Agency. The Hamburg-American line bureau of investigation, the committee states, an 1 ' innocent pretending agency, was at the outset the secret service of the tiamburg-American Steamship company. Under Paul Koenig, its manager, at became be-came an adjunct of the German diplomatic diplo-matic secret service. A letter dated July 20, 1915, from 'O..R.,' one of its operatives to '7000 5 (characterized by the committee as Captain von Papen, former German military attache), tells i of the payment of $150 to an unnamed person, under peculiar precautions, after aft-er the recipient had made this state-, ment: 'I intend to cause serious damage to -vessels of the allies leaving ports of the j United States bv placing bombs, which I am making myself, on board. These : bombs, resemble ordinary lumps of coal , and I am planning to have them concealed con-cealed in the coal to be laden on steamers steam-ers of the allies." Money to Casement. ney apparently went from German sources in the United States through embassy channels to Sir Roger Casement, Case-ment, the Irishman executed in London. " Several lines of communication between be-tween the German diplomatic service and the Irish revolutionary movement are indicated in the captured documents,'' docu-ments,'' the statement continues. John Devoy of New York, now editor of the Gaelic American, a violently anti-Brit-ish paper, was one of the active agents of this connection. Significant entries aopear here and there; references to messages from the German embassy at Washington and the German consulate at New York; mention of a secret code ; to be employed in communicating with him and of a 'cipher decoy'; also a notation, no-tation, the details of which remain undiscovered, un-discovered, concerning ' communication re manufacture hand grenades.7 " Justice Cohalan Involved. The following reference to Supreme Court Justice Daniel F. Cohalan of New York is contained, the committee states, in a letter found m the Von Tgel papers in cipher, with interlinear translation, dated New York, April 17, 1916, numbered num-bered 335-16 and inscribed at the top ' Very secret": "Judge Cohalan requests the transmission trans-mission of the following remarks: " 'The revolution in Ireland, can only be successful if supported from Germany, Ger-many, otherwise England will be able to suppress it, even though it be only J after a hard struggle. Therefore help is necessary. This should consist primarily pri-marily of aerial attack in England and n diversion of the. fleet simultaneously with Irish revolution. Then, if possible, pos-sible, a landing of troops, arms and ammunition in; Ireland, and possibly some officers from Zeppelins. ' This would enable the Irish ports to be closed against England and the establishment estab-lishment of stations for submarines on tho Irish coast and the cutting off of the supply of food for England. Site services of th-s revolution may therefore decide the war.' "He asks that a telegram to thi3 cf-I cf-I feet be sent to Berlin )f j This letter was signed "5132, 8167, 0230' and was addressed to Count von Bernstorf f , "imperial ambassador, Washington, D. C.'' Berlin Code Message. A code message sent to Berlin was given as follows: "National German ia insurance con-! con-! tract certainly promised. Executor is evidently satisfied with proposition. 1 Necessary stops have been taken. ; "HEXK Y NEUMAN." i Of this message the committee has j this to say: "Not so innocent ami harmless as it I looks, tor what the message really ! means is this: ! " 'Irish agree to proposition. The necessary stops have been taken.' " I ' 4 Information carefully and exten-' exten-' sively sot forth in the secret, documents of the German officialdom.'' the com-i com-i mittee continues, "was sometimes wide of the facts. Eor example, a lengthv ; memorandum of March 1, 1916, transmitted trans-mitted by the secret agent, Captain Boehm, dealing with the Mexican crisis, appears to have been largely the work ot some fervid aud piojeetive imagination. imagina-tion. "It predicts that, the president will attribute Mexico 's auti-Americaji ae- tivities to German money and incitement; incite-ment; that he will call upon congress to support him in radical measures (the prophet even attempts to paraphrase para-phrase the language to be employed in the message); that congress will indorse in-dorse the president 's stand, following which upward of 150 German spies ana agents were to be arrested and the ambassadors am-bassadors of the central powers to receive re-ceive their passports.' ' After citing an extract from Captain Boehm 's letter, the committee states that he was 1 too loose of tongue ' ' for the good of service and, citing a report of the German military information informa-tion bureau of March 21, 1916, quotes the report as follows; "Too great confidence in the silence of his fellow men, especially the members mem-bers of the American Truth society was probably the cause of his becoming quickly known here," The committee's statement continues: "So the notorious American Truth society, so-ciety, which so strenuously denied its pro-German associations, figures as indirectly indi-rectly linked up with Germany's secret .representative. This society is still ex-Itant, ex-Itant, and Jeremiah A. O'Le.ry, its moving mov-ing spirit, is now the editor of Bull, recently re-cently slfut out of the mails tor publishing publish-ing seditious matter." Inventors Used. Many inventors, the committee states, the seized papers show, are represented a having plans involving the use of devices de-vices of destruction. One entry Is cited as follows: "June 15, "1915. Sender, G. S. Vfereck. Contents, inquiry us to bomba; supply offer. .Told to send further details." "Possibly the further details," the statement continues, "are Indicated in another entry .of four months later: " 'Sender, Viereck. Contents, offer of i picric acid." ; "Picric acid, as a constituent of many ; high explosives." An entry entitled, "Pure war expense," from the Von Igel papers, is made pub- . lie bv the committee as follows. ; "Edwin Emerson, $1000. "Fair Plav (Mr. Braun), 5-0mT. "Fair Play (Mr. Braun), ?1500. "Marcus Braun SI 000. "J. Archibald, $5000." The statement continues: "Concerning- the idf-n; ity of :he last entry, there might he room for doubt, but for a signed receipt from J. F. J. Archibald, acknowledging the sum of $."000 from the German embassy for propaa n d a w or k . " The committee concludes us expose as follows: "While chiefly concerned with military a ffairs in Fnropi1. tho representatives of a supposedly friendly na tion were keeping keep-ing an interested watch on our own activities ac-tivities In that line. A secret code message mes-sage of April 11. lfilfi. signed 1"232 -16729 j-ififlS, addressed to Von Igel, to this ef- J fec-t: " Herewith respectfully send an ex-! ex-! tract regarding troops stationed in Cali- fern i a and the armament of the coast fortifications.' " |