GERMAN PLOTS.

Greymouth Evening Star, 24 September 1917, Page 5

GERMAN PLOTS.

UNEARTHED IN AMERICA.

SECRET-SERVICE MEN’S GOOD WORK.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21

Congress expects to begin an investigation as to whether or not members accepted money from Count Bernstorff, the ex-German Ambassador. The subject has produced an enormous sensation, strengthening the patriotic majority in Congress against the small querulous minority, who are demanding lengthy debates on all war measures. This incident, with others of a similar character, is regarded as most significantThe American Secret Service Corps possesses the German diplomatic codes, and the Kaiser is no longer able secretly to communicate to diplomats abroad. DOCUMENTS DISCOVERED. REARING ON THE IRISH TROUBLES. (Australian and N.z. Cable Association.! WASHINGTON, September 24. Documents regarding - the German intrigue in America- also disclose, a i lot for fomenting ill-feeling in Mexico against America, and subsidising labor troubles! in munition works'. The You Egel documents! refer to several molnetaiy payments to Roger Casement including a, cheque lor J 0.000 dollars. The committee say» it is an open secret that Holland i# merely a midway station for the shipment of contraband to Germany. The State Department deprecates tbe interpretation of Congressmen, re- , garding Count llerustoiffsi money. Jt believes that it was expended by the organisation to bombard Congressmen with telegrams! and petitions in favor of peace.

SENSATIONAL REVELATIONS

RAMIFICATIONS OF THE SPY SYSTEM.

IRISH AMERICANS IMPLICATED

(“The Times” Cable.)

Received this day at B*ls a.rn. LONDON, September 23

A Washington correspondent says; Tlie Committee of Public Information has published an exposure of German intrigues in America, accompanied by photographic exhibits, including facsimiles of receipts to the German Embassy for 5000 dollars from a journalist named Archibald, who wag nght. carrying despatches, and to Dr. Dumba former Austrian Ainbasi-

s’dor, for 1000 dollars, from Edwin Emerson, who went to Germany as war correspondent for a New York paper : also a photograph convicting also a photograph convicting Captain von Papeu, former German military attache, of paying- for bombing ships.

The documents, seized in Yon Engid's so-called advertising bureau in 1015 show the extraordinary ramifications of the German Government’s spy system and plotting outrages. They prove connection between the German diplomats and the Irish revohr ionary movements'. It wa a a. New York Irishman, who acted a» go-between for the Gernrans in Die dealings with Sir Roger Casement. '

A cipher document addressed to Count Bernstorff in April, 191 G, incriminates Cohalan, a justice of the New York Supreme Court, who wa«i a prominent Irish-Americarr.

Cohalan says : "A revolution in Ireland can only be successful if supj.'orted ly Cerrnany, tire help necessary consisting primarily of aerial atlacksi on England and a diversion with the fleet simultaneously with the. Irish revolution, then the landing of troops, arms and ammunition in Ireland. This will enable the Irish ports to he closed against England and the esfahlishment of submarine stations) on the Irish coast, cutting off a supply for England, and the success of the revolution may decide the war.” (Hie cable news in this issue accredited to ‘‘The Times” has appeared in that journal, but only where expressly stated is such news the editorial opinion of “The Times.”) SECRET AGENTS IN AINU THALIA. SURSTANTIAL REWARD OFFEREDSYDNEY",. Sept. 2!,iThe “Sun” newspaper says that with Hie loss of tire Cumberland and the Port Kembla, evidence has accumulated that Germany, with secret agents, is carrying lout plots for the detstruction of ships in this and other parts of the globe- -.The directors of the “Sun,” therefore, offer £IOOO reward for the defection of such conspiracy in the Commonwealth and the conviction of the chief criminals.