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Show SPIES Hi TRAITORS WORK IN HARMONY GOVERNMENT CARES MORE PLOTS AGAINST UNITED STATES BEFORE THE WAR. Money Furnished by Germany's Ambassador Am-bassador for the Purpose of Destroying De-stroying Life and Property, It Is Charged. Washington- Further disclosures of far-reaching German propaganda, Intrigues In-trigues and plots in this country prior to the diplomatic breuk witk Germany, Ger-many, were made on Saturday by the committee on public information. In a bulletin styled "official expose," the committee quotes numerous let ters and extracts from letters seized by the department of justice in April, 1010, iu a raid upon the New York office of Wolfe von I;;el. Von Ijrel, iu carrying on his manifold pro-German and anti-American activities, the documents show, was in constant touch with the German embassy and with Count vou BernstorlT, German ambassador to the United States. "In the form of letters, telegrams, notations, checks, receipts, registers, cash hooks, cipher codes, lists of spies and other memoranda and records." the committee says, "were found indications indi-cations in some instances of the vaguest nature, in others of the most damning conclusiveness that the German Ger-man imperial government, through its representatives in a then friendly nation, na-tion, was concerned with "Violations of the laws of the United Unit-ed States. "Destruction of lives and property in merchant vessels on the high seas. "Irish revolutionary plots against Great Britain. "Fomentiug ill-feeling against the United States in Mexico. "Subornation of American writers and lecturers. "Financing of propaganda. "Maintenance of a spy system under the guise of a commercial investigation investiga-tion bureau. "Subsidizing of a bureau for the purpose pur-pose of stirring up labor troubles in munitions plants. "The bomb industry and other related relat-ed activities." Case of Holland. The committee, of which Secretaries Lausing, Baker and Daniels are members, mem-bers, and George Creel, chairman, has this to say concerning Holland : "It has long been an open secret that Holland is merely a way station for shipments of contraband into Germany. Ger-many. Here is official confirmation from the Von Igel records which would seem to indicate a suspicious and confidential con-fidential relation between the 'Holland commission' and the German diplomatic diplomat-ic officials accredited to this country, or possibly a belief by the Germans that they could not successfully get the munitions to their own country. The message in code, with interlinear translation, is entered as 'A 2493 and headed 'German embassy, Washington, D. C, April 6, 1916.' It runs as follows fol-lows : "'Telegram from Berlin by secret roundabout way for Carl Heysen: Consent Con-sent sale Holland three hundred thousand thou-sand chests (cartridges) and two hundred hun-dred tons powder. Please get in touch with Holland commissioner. Sender, war minister, foreign office, in representation. repre-sentation. (SigDed) " 'HATZFELDT.' " Prince Hatzfeldt was an official of the German embassy. The Hamburg-American line bureau of investigation, the committee states, an "innocent pretending agency, was at the outset the secret service of the Hamburg-American Steamship company. com-pany. Under Paul Koenig, its manager, mana-ger, it became an adjunct of the German Ger-man diplomatic secret service. |