The Alaska Daily Empire

KAISER'S MEN
EQUIPPED FOR
ROUGH
WORK
Government's
Expose
of
Their
System
Has
Proved Rather
Startling.
SPIES ARE
NUMEROUS
Lines
of
Communication
Were Established with
the Old Coun-
try.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 29. - (By mail)-The nation is still talking about the recent exposure of German intrigue in the United States made by Government secret agents. The ramifications of the spy system was much more extensive than was believed by many who thought themselves somewhat on the "inside."
When private papers were examined by the Department of Justice the reason for Von Igel's determined fight became apparent. Here, in the form of letters, telegrams, notations, checks, receipts, ledgers, cashbooks, cipher codes, lists of spies, and other memoranda, and records, were found indications-in some instances of the vaguest nature, in others of the most damning conclusiveness-that the German Imperial Government, through its representatives in a then friendly nation, was concerned with:
Violation of the laws of the United 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 States in Mexico.
Subornation of American writers and lecturers.
Financing of propaganda.
Maintenance of a spy system under the guise of a commercial investigation bureau.
Subsidizing of a bureau for the purpose of stirring up labor troubles in munition plants.
The bomb industry and other related activities
The names of Paul Koenig and Captain Von Papen are traced by checks and papers taken by the Federal agents, and a connection shown with Former Ambassador von Bernstorff. It was shown that the campaign of Sir Roger Casement was familiar to the German spies in America.
Journalists, lecturers, and publishers were literally employed by von Igel and his associate for the purposes of German propaganda. Among those thus tainted with the stigma of dishonorable professional conduct are two magazine writers and war correspondents, James F. J. Archibald, now in Washington, and Edwin Emerson, said to be in Africa.
The following curious entry appears in von Igel's official records:
"Pure War Expenses"
Edward Emerson $1,000
Fair Play (Mr. Braun .... 2,000
Fair Play (Mr. Braun .... 1,500
Marcus Braun 1,000
J. Archibald 5,000
Concerning the identity of the last entry there might be room for doubt but for a signed receipt from J. F. J. Archibald acknowledging the sum of $5,000 from the German embassy for propagation work. What return Archibald ever made in service is not clear except that certain war correspondence for which he contracted with New York newspapers was so obviously prejudiced on the side of the Central Powers that they decreased to accept it.