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BARNWELL SENTINEL, BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA the to’ chouse— rjy other friends ■of ours. On.* day about live orjfslx wejeks after she got there she Inforrned ftis that a grotrt packing case was living filled up with propaganda documents an/1 with bills- of expense in .coniu'C- . tlon with explosions In munition plant* and other Vital and vaTuuble things*,, tfftd was to, be shipped off the fuliuw- thnp-we^k right straight to England bn •a Swedish shlp'and from there to Ger many. . .. ■> . , >j .,.b‘ VorfrPtfpen Flirts. ‘‘The only thing we cpuldjpossrthly dV. waA t-o identify the package. One day* when they were about to •fluke the package up this girl, uhdeUjnstnic- tious ijnd I may say incidentally she is n<nv back at wy>rk getting her :?lfi a Weelp -sal on this box eiititi.i*diVr lunch. Nearly everybody else •■had gone, hut Vpn I*apen, father d^n4nijp!htin4 fond' "of Indies, wandered In and -sat on* lhe packing, box and asked if he, could share her luneh with her. She'said certainly, and while they were Sharing the sandwiches he/ made some senti mental advances,/ ami she In rather a .dreamy way took out n large reu.pencil and drew two btg red hearts- on tlih* parking,'case. It was Captain Von Ca pon himself who put an arrow through thtfin. And, Indies ,aiul gentlemen, when the ship Austria* }I- re^checTFal- a***: Met Guile With Guile and Spy With Spy, and for Almost Three Years Kept the Gofernment Informed of Teutonic Intrigue Editor Tells and Treachery in This Country- How It Was Done ' < . imiUiifWUH 1 by Mr. Jlathorn why he had been fool ish enough to, travel first-class In such- shabby dress, Horne replied *}hat ‘ he was-a.German officer and a g’entleinan and always Traveled 1n the best style. Passport Fraud - Oxrtttned. “Another 'German scheme* iii which the Journal reporters outwitted the i Teutons occurred soon ijf{er iir New V-ork- also. A fraudulent -passport bu reau, operated by,Gerlimn officials, was dlscovtred.jdufhg a land-office business In ’an office butWYttg on Broadway. The Juurtud—faking as a public account ant on tlietotLo-jiTTh* and’a.rua'fiufactur- era’ agent yn tin* other—sandwiched" the passport. forgets between them, j Every word that passed in thl$ office | was recorded .by means of the lnstrO- ] merits used for. that purjxise, nnd'-te? J ported to the Providence Journal. When sul-HelenF evidence was gathered the 4 jilted States .secret service was notified* and the three forgers were takioi-awhy. As sjon as they had been , removed tliNn^jif—the"Journal’s em- I>l• iveeiTwerwIflToNVed'nrrnke rlrnTge of ; the office to receive the patrons. It j was not long after that Von. Papon and i-pHT* TTeFmfin military attache at jTbkyo canTe-dti. w i t h ii list of names df men j for whomThey^dcsired passfiorts. The kb-liic at the top of-4he^Ust Whs that of Werner Horne.' ./ Journal Man Bernstorff’s. Secretary. —" ‘A tri-md of mine,’ said Mr. ltnth- ( oin, jthhikfhg hitnyvlf very fri-ladly, hut in a thhig which I objected to. md while there bought lies. Among them was oiii.* of the 'first it oii crosses that had been-given by the (Jerman.emperor jo a - major of a Itlerman rygimejif, Wifi died on tin* field aiidf-wlnw-e cross had hedh taken 'from biin and taken to Paris, p: was s»ffd to-my friend, with statements as w hom It hud belonged, and my friend sent it to me. 1 sent It to BernstortT with a letter, saying that tiiut'ipnrk of honorable distinction of a man who bad* done Ills'duty for hi* country belongs to his family. 1 gave the name tof the man and the rtame'of the family* and begged him'to take care of the cross so that Jt could he sept hack after the war or at frjme time to the man’s people. ~*‘ Tears Note to Piecesr-* New- York.-iTlow the Providence Journal thet. guile with gVhie, and spy with spy. how It haji Us man lit Beru- storlT’s., own household .and its t.wo Wireless stations “listening in" on the German Kayvil.lo“line’’ to BoiTin—-how’,' In fact, this one'New England newspa per for almost t'hfoe years kept the United States goVvmthtnlt informed of the German Austrian plots in America •—has at last been revealed. John It. HathVim, In a kpeech made at the rnItmffloTij of the Canadian Press association in Toronto, -ami re ported in the Editor and Publisher from the Toronto Star, weaves rtstory J)f_plot and. counter-plot a* rctfnirk utile as any that have come fronmhe pert of E. Phillips oppenheim. Am Mr. Hath- om says that he* has n sa-fe full of doc- unieritjs. yet unused wliiclL he will pull 'UITtTfThe situation eVer aga'ln requires pts’k sfvpe on a British submarine In tl fiyp^ihe United ’ States FJylng-eonps, who is n tlesigning. atridan<*s a Pacific Coas harbor, far from Its base. L’-. Training ambulance driveril the fair grounds at Allentown. Pa. 3—Air Mechanic Robinson ojf the only twenty-one years old and has been passed for special tralnllng owing to his clev- ■^4—=*The-cruiser Zeeland, one of IR'illatul's'lurgeiit war vessels, visiting In New York The story bristles with dramatic 11^ tl«1 scene-Jt-ainiost tinbellevabli^ in hiim- druni AiiTerkui,There is U-rnstorff’s confidential '•eeretary at.the last - mo ment 'at Halifax. revtaiTTmE bhnself as an American. . There is tie i>rlUJy^ste- nographer wlnv yat -<kn the packing btoT with < ’apfuin von fir!* pen and' made him write tie* evidence of his'nwn guil;t. - And through It.nil runs tlep-jrail of the ‘j’grc.en blubber.’’.'wlin h js-J.fr. Hath- oin’s won.! for tin* str:jngei'‘air' holes". In Hernian^briiyis \\ Hi. h "make thetit overlook tie* ne.»st dlivhHjs Ifliings. We It gee the ' :-ei ii* !■! libber" i when V air HATS OFF TO GENERAL PERSHING IN PARI i in s Horne, tin salesman InstrtK man and tl tlonS’to put'hi;*' ibitiais. on lt.'^Thyjfe- i'orter. as soon as Albert laid gone mlt, * j . ' •walked up to the salesman and ordered another port.folhvof the same kind, hut with no initials," saying he would rather first see how the other gentle-, man's initials looked.. When In* came back and saw the initials In* said he didn't like them ahd departed to go to another shop*and have the same ini tials put on Ids portfolio. Ilis work was becoming, less tiresome and less fruitless than it laid been. ‘‘‘A-day or twq later Albert, carry ing the new' portfolio, was followed frorrt the front- of his apartments by the Journal ngUL Albert boarded uu •elevated trnlu. lie placed his hag con taining papers on the seat beside him. lows,, too,, the ineiibwit of HttlA street ear fight Ihv Albert his famous poi* ; erous secrets. It’s a' j^reat S |t’s a great story,nud• Its hints of what it might die 4fi I "The Providence Journal," begins the Editor and Publisher, "happened upon its course of-exposure through having laid fop.teit years before Hie war what other papers deser-ibed as a *bug‘ (in wireless telegraphy. The pa per had maintained two powerful wire less plants at- Judith and at Block Island. When war broke out they had decided to ‘listen lit’ on the messages crossitig tlie AtlntitTo. Pot- five months they kept renyd of these messages, and'then they set out to find the* Codes and' make revelations, j of the material they secured they, used only a fractional part. •“One of the newspaper's ktenogra-, pKers wqs sent .and secured an ap pointment in the Austrian Tonsfilate in New York, otlier of its workers were ConstaiAly eugaged In shadowing Cap tain r.oy-J-h], .Curtain you Papen, for mer Austrian Ambassador Thimbu, tli** Oermati Ambassador liornstorff and oth»*r German and Austrian otlicialsr- The two wifeless plants unceasingly listened In. two shifts of operators at work .day and night, on Sayvllle and Nantucket, the tw : o wireless stations which were, being used piostLy by the Germans to keep In tou'eji with Berlin, from_where, they, received liisttsictiiais for every (Ictaihjof llicir plotting pol- -Suddcnly he was stirred by a fight In pieces, t.hre\V the .note Iii the f^ce of thd -man I sent, land threw the cross on the tioor, saying; that, after having been defiled by the hands of American dogs, j that cross was hf no-useHo anybody in ' Germany. I knew my man was tolling [the truth, because the man I had In . tiiere reported the Incident to me ex actly the way he did. IncSderttally I might say that the Individual to whom 1 refer was in the German embassy |17 months as one of the ambassador's spcrctaricsr ytnd tbo umbnssadon had tio khowledge tlfat lie was not what he | prt'teiqed to he until the Frederlk VIII left New: York'foY Halifax. Ib* said to i tiiv man, "You had better get aboard or you w ill l«se yolir boat," and he re- pliod ;^“1 am sjifer on this side," Mr. KernsibrIY liad no Idea of that Jniurs , i(h*ulTfy-or*whom lie was servlpg Uirtll iii* left Now York. And hi'yefoH* a let ter from Halifax to jt^fflend-in New Yf*rk, which he aHeffljitffd to get Sent Si'ack, b.iij whmk^was intercepted, t»dl- ing sonie^m Ids friends wiiat he t fids Individual. ■ r - When Huerta Met Boy-Ed. ^ '' 'The famous Hupiaa ca'jse, .the at- '! icnipT of thcjTjorthnn government to ! vnibroil us w'ith Mexico, an-attempt ijuit t'iie' recent Zimmermann Tetter - proved ia-yond any doubt -to- be J rue, wtys ftfreiMy - provo(>i^y jis a Jong time befonf. LkrrljJIn tiie’w’.ur my man in 1 the eiyh'ussy—I say my man; you uiust pardon mb for timt^ I mean qtir mnn. j because I am not the Providence Jour- j tail- \yas ordered by Captain Boy,-Ed to go to New York and get a suite of j six qui**t rooms In a hotel whqre ltoy- ! Pd and his pe<iplrT'cmiid meet Tluerta. rNntin ally enough, jny niftin being ioyul, ... . . . Ge-neral Pershing ami members of his stuff In Paris, leaving the Hotel de with President Poincare. rillon on their wuy to breakfaat SCENE OF NIAGARA GORGE DISASTER LINCOLN SHAH IN TRAINING were “For the U'n.ited St.atcl? government ^he TUmtklyh” navy' yard had had in structions to kronen close watcli on the Sayville and Nantucket -stations, but- nothing suspiciims was ever re ported until Mr. Ratltom tobiy sobYP of the messages whieh/he had rgCfaved from his operators to the stqfe de.uartr hient. > It was then .h-u-nied that the navy yard op.erabms^Tiad been In the pay of Gennan^rgent.s_^U-AlT)erivn. and badTa'ciiTohi not to-hear too*mueh. Ingcniou6 / Codei ysed. - . 5*Tne^co<fes used by t^n* Germans w-^re of the_ most tngcnlouk natfrre. Many of them pretended to be stock quotations, and. some were* even done up las funeral directions' In some enses, however, the codes showed evi dence of the "green hiuhh(*fn^a*ferred to by the speaker, as on One 1 , occasion whsai JlliN'Tiilihoifi was able to go- to President Wi 1 son pirpsbnw flhin c'oples df eight separate messagesfsent by the wireless p!an>*jvitliiii nim* days, all felatlrlg that “little’ I-knill" lin'd died of such and such an lllucss|iti a certain part (of a room, had heijn tntrled In u cortnin cinnetery liosldo suej nnd, such a previously deceased rehjti,ve. Jh *verv oimfof thope messages the lllnes^, the I’togrnpli sin.)\yljtig,the washout on the Niagara Palls CJorffe rail- Cantilever bridge where a crowded car wup hurled from the luhged over a 20 foot eTnbankmeut into the head' waters of the dds. About-15 Were killed. T , HIS FIRST PAPER I Lincoln Shah, sou of Kal Pu Shali.j former minister to the United States from China, is an enthusiastic mem ber of the Junior American guard,, ab organization’ Which- Is flourlshibg in Washington'among the young sdns of weli-knoW n people. Young .Shah Is be ing educated in America, though his Taster lias returned to- China and CHARGES HE ROLLED UP UNCLE SAM'S SLEEVES tivfj^tno reimnery, arul so on. vnrieul,, fli«* (lopHrtino'nt strj;te the ni*xt and a clear Code was detected Inieach^ qtofning. They had tli*e • .entire facts of th^. messages. ^ “| before them and knew everything, and preen f^lubber in Brain. f for several-montli.4 later,/when Boy-Ed * "The first | revelation which Mr. j nid BcrnstortT were frothing at the Rathoiu told illustrated the German aioutb and uft* ring denials, tje state capacity fob blundering,. It-. wa-sythe-j>i«pfti|im'n! Mil the very words that story of Werner Horne—'the man who weroiUtered.-.'. “ - w-as responsible for the attemiit to 1 ' Romance Among Spies, blow tip the Yjtjfcehoro brldgg?- Horne - ♦“Another incident,’ he continued, had been detected as a German spy by - 1 ‘that Is of great Interest came when one of the Journal reporters In New i one,of our valued find keenest stenog- YorlL,. to an,effort- to jils^ulsc Jnmselt., LmMara-Xa-.ouiL.nAUg.-ulUi4L JL glrj,. JhuL Horne allowed Ids beard to grow for ,* H me to us, seven years ago from about three-duys, pUPon an old suit which hipj-twentj. mtlea outride of Providence, purchased-f«T threCTdollarrs (even this j was glveni a posiPTon" In ttje office of detail was reported) and packed his 'the' Austrian" eohsTll general In New persohaiy effects In an_old .curpeuhag. York city. She bted never been in New Having curried out these elaborate pre- ; York before, but she.was uhead of a cautions he took passage for the point jiumher of people Jn cmnpefltiou, and where the "Job" was to'be done, on one-j the man choosing the stenographer bf the finest and piost luxurious traJuis. they wanted (a capable girl able to rhyengd.-* P.cctvuse Frederick W. i'ichorn has been selling statues wf Uncle Sam wltli his s'lecv. s rolleif up, Henry' Bnr- zone ha4 sued him f<’>r Borzone claim* that !i> tjeislgned a stirue of Uncle Sam showing him : /^mrcefull.V*"carrying ,n flag. and t)iut Elchorn copied it, roll Ing ui> Uncle Sam's Sleeves as The Joyotia Gardener. ‘Jjld >o|r garden help you to econo- the only change ies, ' replied Mr. (JroesloU. "Pve *s* 1rnm*e -fmd perei'ey i hee<F to garnish a beefsteak, as soon as I eaa get the steak.” , Waste - Worth--$10,000. ITloomsliurg, Pa.—For years a pile of waste from lrrldlum, -a materia' used In- making.diamond pointed fouh tain pens, was thought worthless by manufacturers here. Recently t sjranger dropped In and offered 475 s Be on the Watch, recent news item indicated that tiiere was some dissatisfaction.among eastern clookmakera. Let us hope they won't wind up with a strike.—IndlAA* spoils Star. i - French peasant" in * recently-Tecaptured village eagerty reading the first French newspaper he had seen since the occupation of the place, by tb® United States. As Is well known | do his work and to keep her mouth pooh*!, or more than $10,000 for it I» s two years before. nowUtoe was caught When asked litet^-alHitj had been Informed, that she was Ls used in the munitions Industry, ‘ r r ^ ' iwal 1 1 S||mL/a v v . JE'j/tnJZgSSn. X §■ JL | if ml j M / — WWWW2r vj ♦ -M |*V V W \ v/, tst,. ( Jk ■ - i f Mflml ?A J JfWKt \ <i a y