Show Let Me Come Back 1 s Plea of Deported Hun He Says Germany Is Afire I I I RING that Germany is In D 0 DECLARING chaos and that terrible fighting is expected Joseph von formerly interned prisoner at Ft Douglas has written to Dave Gershon investigator for the the department department department depart depart- ment of justice begging for assistance to get back to the United States He was deported with other prisoners from Ft Doug Douglas as last June lune and sailed from Charleston S. S C. C with a shipload of Germans gathered from al all parts of the United States who had expressed a desire to be repatriated SAYS POLES MAKE RAIDS Von Dw writes from Schleswig and says there is lots of trouble in upper Silesia with All AlI the time there are raids he de decla declares de- de cla dares clares s and he likens th the conditions to those thos along the Mexican border He says the United States is a paradise and that his greatest wish Is to be able to return to this country According t to Mr Gershon Von D was a soldier of fortune with a storied career He lab labored red for the country which paid him the most I SERVED ON SEA RAIDER I i According to decla declaration decla he I wast wasl on on the raider Leipsig Leipsig in the Pacific Pacific Pa Pa- I from 1914 to 1016 Afterward he was implicated with one Ricardo W. W SC a Mexican German in a conspiracy to take aeroplanes out of ot the United States into Mexico Both were arrested but t escaped across the b border rd r and afterward became became be be- be came chief of Mexican police In iii one of the border provinces Von had been previously arrested charged with blowing up bridges but was released for lack lacle of evidence He was charged later with being a dangerous alien and was brought to toFt Ft Douglas Dough sin In October 1917 APPEAL PROBABLY VAIN In his letter he says that a cabal has formed against him from among other prisoners that were shipped back to Germany with him and he wants evidence evidence evidence evi evi- evi- evi dence from the United States department department department depart depart- ment of justice justic that he was not really working as a German spy in this country coun- coun coun coun- try It It is ls probable that no no attention will be paid to hl his request neither Isit is isit isit it likely that he will ever be permitted to return here although he is willing willingto to work vork his way if necessary as he says |