SPIES IN AMERICA

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2545, 20 August 1915, Page 5

SPIES IN AMERICA

CHARGE AGAINST THE TELEFUNKEN WIRELESS SPREADING THE NET By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright t New York, August 18. The Providencc "Journal" lias furnished the Secretary to the Navy with a series of facts proving the activity of the Gorman spy system prior to the tvar. it states that the Telefunken Wireless Company,under German Foreign Office instructions, endeavoured to instal, for the American Government, star tions. in the Philippines on positions mapped out by tlio German Foreign Office. Ilio Telefunken Company also in 1913 attempted to gain control of wireless plants in South and Central America and tried in 1911 to secure land station's in_ the neighbourhood of Nicaragua, winch would prove valuable in tlio event of the Panama Canal being fortified. SENSATION CAUSED IN BERLIN. _ Amsterdam, August 18. The I*civ York revelations concerning German intrigues have created a sensation in Berlin. Tho 'Foreign Offico organs do not deny the charges, but simply insinuate that tho documents (vers stolen. ANCRY OUTBURST IN AMERICA. PRESS DENUNCIATIONS. (Rec. August 19, 11.10 p.m.) New Yorkj August 19. Many of the newspapers denounce the German propagandists as being guilty of sedition. The "Philadelphia Inquirer" urges President Wilson to act, and declares that Count Bernstorff has now become a dangerous nuisance. The "Chicago Journal" says that the German Government, which ruined Belgium and murdered non-combatants wholesale in tho Lusitrmia, is unscrupulously fomenting sedition among the inhabitants of a neutral Republic. The "Herald" estimates - that Germany has disbursed twenty million dollars in the United States in the effort to involve the country in war. The "New York World" stigmatises as a conspiracy against the Government and people of the United States, a letter from Dr. ttaetzholdt, a German trade representative, to HerrßethmannHollweg, urging the latter to incite American feeling against England by preventing the shipment of dyes and chemicals, even ;if .Britain permitted their exportation iu exceptional cases. The "World" adds: "The subsidised German Press and agitators in the United States are spitting venom at the President, aiid inciting their dupes to organise against linn as tho enemy of true neutrality and true Americanism. Germany must be held to strict accountability for' her shameless violation of. American rights on American soil, and equally at sea."