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Show SPIES AN D TRAITOR S WORK II HAUNT GOVERNMENT BARES 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 break with Germany, Ger-many, wore made on Saturday by tlio commiiiee on public information. In a bulletin styled "official expose," the conimitlee qnoios numerous letters let-ters and extracts from letters seized by the department of justice in April, ll'lti. in a raid upon the New York office of Wolfe von Igel. Von Igel, in carrying on his manifold pro-German and anti-American activities, the documents show. was in constant touch witli the German embassy and wiih Count von BeriistorlT. Gorman ambassador to the I'nited States. "In the form of loners, telegrams, notations, chocks, receipts, registers, cash books, cipher codes, lists of spies and. other memoranda and records." tile commit too says, "wore found indications indi-cations in some instances of the vaguest nut tire, in others of the most damning conclusiveness that the Gt'r-nian Gt'r-nian imperial government, through its representatives in a then friendly tuition, tui-tion, was concerned with "Violations of the laws f the United Unit-ed States. "Destruction of lives and property in merchant vessels on the high seas. "Irish revolutionary plots against Great Britain. "Fomenting ill-feeling against the United Slates 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 ether related relat-ed activities." Case of Holland. The committee, of which Secretaries Lansing, Baker and Daniels are members, mem-bers, and George. Creel, chairman, has this to say concerning Holland: "It has long boon 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 got the munitions to their own country. The message in code, with interlinear translation, is entered as 'A 211)3' and headed 'German embassy, Washington, D. C, April G, l'JUi.' It runs us follows fol-lows : "'Telegram from Berlin liy 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, iu representation. repre-sentation. (Signed) " '1 1 ATZFELDT.' " Prince Hatzfeldt was an efficial of the Gorman embassy. The Hamburg-American line bureau of investigation, the committee stales, an "innocent, preloading agency, was at the outset the secret service of Ihe Hamburg-American Steamship company. com-pany. Under Paul Koenig, ils manager, mana-ger, it. became an adjunct f the tier-man tier-man diplomatic secret service. |