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HOW U.S. JOURNAL OUTWITTED HUNS. TRUTH STRANGER THAN FICTION. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received June 27, 12.50 a.in:) NEW YORK. June 25. John Ratliom, editor of the Providence Journal, which exposed many German intrigues, in a speech revealed that the newspaper employed its own secret service. Members of its newspaper staff held the positions of secretary to Bernstorff and messenger to Boy-Ed and lady stenographer to-the Austrian Consul-General. When the Germans opened a fraudulent passport office on Broadway the Journal opened bogus offices on either side A member of the staff attached to Boy-Ed took rooms in a New. York hotel for the meeting of Boy-Ed and Huerta.' All conversations were recorded on dictaphones and sent to Washington immediately. Evidence was obtained by tlie newspaper’s private wireless and after laborious decoding were also: banded' to the Government. • ,
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4596, 27 June 1917, Page 5
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