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Show WHAT OUR SECRET SERVICE HAS DONE. Our secret service, it is said, knew the Lusitaxua wa doomed when that vessel steamed oat of New York harbor har-bor in May, 1915. and much of the earlier information obtained as to Count Bcrnstorff's intrigues, including the orders to sink the great passenger ship, was received through a dictograph dicto-graph placed in the HobenzolWn club in New York City, where Bern-storff. Bern-storff. Von Papon, Boy-Ed and other German plotters regularly gathered. Part of the work of exposing the rascals was performed by attractive oung women who won tb.Hr way into the confidence of the libertines If half that is told of the triumphs of our secret service is true, then the Americans have been more than a match for the spies of Germany, although al-though the poison, arson and murder squads from Berlin made considerable headway before they were checked. Enumerating twenty great crimes, in which the spies were discovered, a secret se-cret service man gives the following brief summary: No. 1. Sinking of Lusitania, May 7, 1915. No. 2. The attempted bombing of ! the Hotel Ansonia, daring the navn.1 review ball of 1915, in which it was plotted to send 800 navigating officers of the great Atlantic fleet to then-death then-death and make the naval protection of the United States in the east useless use-less N'r 3. The attempt to torpedo the flagship of the great Atlantic fleet in the narrows of New York harbor during dur-ing the fleet rev1ew of 1915, thus blocking the harbor and bottling up the fleets as the beginning of a reign of terror in America. No. 4 The coming of Franz von Rintelen to America, with $5,000,000 to pend on death and destruction. How one of hi? plots, to bum and destroy de-stroy thousands of bead of livestock, to injure the allies, and to prevent I shipments across the Atlantic, was frustrated. No. 5. The attempts to foment strike? among New York's 23,000 longshoremen long-shoremen by bribery and chicanery, the failure of this, the deliberate overturning over-turning of a cTeat sailing vessel at its dock in New York harbor and the destruction de-struction of vast stores being lightered light-ered across the Hudson, all the part of a gigantic scheme to work harm to the allies through neutral America No. 6. The secrets of the brown portfolio carried by Dr. Heinrich Albert, Al-bert, German fiscal spy, the burning of the steamer Cragslde as tbe result of a German plot. The wrecking of Franz von Papen's traveling wireless and the efforts of Germany's spies to turn the whole ocean into a mass of flame from bomb strewn shipping. No, 7. The plot of Lieut. Robert Fay, sent as a special emissary to America by the imperial German gov-jernment, gov-jernment, to destroy shipping through a newly invented, diabolical bomb, and "rid the ocean of ships within six months." ' No. 8. How imperial Germany used the munitions companies of America to help win her battles, through chicaner, chi-caner, tip switching of plans, the destruction de-struction of trreat plants with attendant attend-ant loss of lives. No. 9. Tbe attempted invasion of Canada, through which von Papcn hoped to bring about the influx of thousands of German reservists Into Canada from the United StAtes, practically prac-tically making war on Canada from this country. No. 10. The burning of Hopewell, Va., in which a thriving city of 25.000 was nwept from the face of the earth in imperial Germany's mad desire to destroy all America if necessary to prevent shipment of munitions abroad. No 11 The second attempt to dc-Itroy dc-Itroy the Weiiand canal, ihe great nriery of the Great Lakes, thiou-h which thousands of Canadian troops passed on their way "over there." The attempt was fostered SAd planned within sound of New York's crashing "L" trains, with dynamite itolen from la lighter in New York harbor, and 'frustrated by the United States secret service. No 12 The legacy of hate which von Papen and Boy-Ed left behind them when recalled to Germany The Franr Bopp conspiracy, by which it was hoped to burn and destroy a m at part of the factories and industries of the United Stairs No. 13. The true -lory of why Villa raided Columbus. N. M, through the scheming of Karl Boy-Ed, who had returned re-turned to Amorlca in disguise; the 'raiding of Wolf von igcl's office? and the plots that were frustrated thereby. there-by. No. 14. How Germany used the in nocent cotton bloom to spread haoe through the world The poisoning of bandage through vitriol and pulver ized glass, their factdctiefl for the birth of pain. No 15. The story told to the secret nervice of th- secret behind the New York spinal meningitis epidemic of 1916. how blue bottle flies were f , on the deadly germs and rel I d broadcast No. 16. The attempts of German agents to build a U-boat ba.-e within a half-hour's trip of New York, the I visit of the U-53 and the escape of i Karl Boy-Kd from America after bit month of plotting in disguise No. 17. The attempt of Germany to control the wireless of the world and how it was frustrated through .in uncanny un-canny invention which only the secret service could devise. How Germany's spies sent messages which caused horrors hor-rors and death even under the ey. censors, and how at last the wireless control was wrested from the bloody jhand6 of Germanv No. 18. The attempt to kill off thousands thou-sands of United States troops thmuch I the infection of tetanus and how the' plot was thwarted by the secret serv- lea. No 19. The secret behind the I. W. W. and what the secret service 1 kno-ws about this orcd-niration. How . the L W. W. sought to aid Germany by jthe burning of wheat fields, riots, the j calling of strikes and other crimes j against the peace and dignity of Amer- I lea. No. 20 The final days of America's break with Germany. The mysterious message which went forth, sendine j word to every paid agent of Gormany in America to destroy, destroy, destroy! de-stroy! The departure of Bernstorff and his aids and the declaration of war. |