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Show , ' Prominent Member of German Secret Service Directs Activities, SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 26 A woman, designated only as "H" and said to be prominent in tho German secret service, directed tho activities of Frank Schulcnberg, alleged master spy, held here on a presidential warrant, war-rant, according to information divulged di-vulged today by federal officials. Schulenberg is said to have been active ac-tive in plans to destroy bridges and public buildings in Canada and shipping ship-ping and warehouses in Pacific ports. Officials said that the woman barely bare-ly escaped arrest here four weeks ago, the day before Schulenberg was captured. The clue to her part In Schulenberg's operations was re- vealed In a letter found among his ef-1 fects. It instructed Schulenberg to mectjier In Los Angeles. The letter jivas postmarked Cleveland, 0. Investigation Inves-tigation showed, officials said, that the woman had been an agent of Wolff von Igel, former secretary to Franz von Papon, military attache of the German embassay at Washington and alleged head of the German espionage system In this country. She was described as a woman of birth and education, a brunette, 35 vears old. I According to federal authorities, the 1 woman sent Schulenberg to the ! United States in 1914 for the alleged purpose of assisting In the maintenance mainte-nance of contraband wireless stations supported by tho German government for the purpose ofcgaining military information in-formation and transmitting it to 1 Berlin. I German Misleading Advertisements. , Further revolations concerning Schulenberg's activities disclosed today to-day showed that in February, 1915, he Inserted an advertisement in Spokane, Wash., newspapers looking to the purchase pur-chase of a tract of land on which to colonize two hundred or three hundred Spanish families. These families, of-! of-! ficials said, were Hindus and the purpose pur-pose of their colonization was to permit per-mit them easy entrance into Canada, where they were to obtain military information in-formation and facts concerning the movements of Canadian vessels to assist as-sist in the raider warfare conducted recently in the Pacific ocean by the Germans. Tho colonization plan did not materialize. Some of Schulenberg's activities, according to the authorities, have been traced to Ram Chandra, prominent Hindu on trial here with thirty other persons charged with attempting to foment a revolt against British rule in India. Ram Chandra made several payments of money to Schulenberg, of-filcals of-filcals said. Schulenberg, according to federal officals, was a deserter from the German Ger-man army and had not been actuated by patriotism for the fatherland in his alleged activities, but had performed them only in hope of financial gain. They said he would not admit his connection con-nection with tho woman agent. 00 |