Barnwell sentinel. (Barnwell C.H., S.C.) 185?-1925, July 26, 1917, Image 3
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,
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