VON PAPEN'S PLOT

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3194, 19 September 1917, Page 6

VON PAPEN'S PLOT

GERMAN SrY DECOYED BY A GIRL'S FLIRTATION. How Gorman intrigue in the United States was discovered and baffled by an American newspaper staff was recently told in a brief cabled story by the editor of the "Providence Journal (Rhode Island), which for ten years before the war had a* complete wireless installation on the Atlantic coast. His own operators tapped the German wireless and kepC tho cipher messages for months until 'they r'ot a clue to the codes. Every kind of code was used by the Germans. Some of the messages were disguised as btock Exchange quotations; some even as directions for funerals. ' One of the "Journal's" first success*; was tho detection of Werner Horne, tho man who tried to blow up a <n-eat bridge. Disguise<l as a workman, with a threedays' beard, and carrying .an old carpet bag, this man travelled to the point where the outrage was to be committed ■by the most luxurious American express. •Vfler "his arrest he was asked why lie had made such a blunder. He explained that a German officer, however dressed, must always travel like a gentleman. At the time when Germany jnis (reins to stir up trowblo between the United States and Mexico the "Providence Journal" again threw itself m the way and unmasked the German batteries. By this time it had managed to put an agent in the German Embassy. He was ordered by Captain Boy-Ed to arranse a meeting in New- York with Huerta. The interne* took place with the utmost secrecy, but even- word spoken by Huerta and by Boy-Ed, through his Spanish interpreter, W as heard and noted for the which laid its report immediately before th» State Department It was the "Journal," too, which tracked the bogus German passport bureaui to n Broadway office, and which, working through a'clever girl secretary, enabled the capture of the case containing Pawn's notes and expense bills m connation with the attempts on ouuition factories. This girl, as a shorthandtvpist. had secured an engagement at the Austrian Consnl-Genevol's New lork office. There she noticed (he box and duly informed hor employers of (he date "when it was'to be removed to a Swedish v( w.;ol TTow was she to nut Her own identification marks upon the box? This is Mr. fathom's narrative as reported in the "Toronto Stir." "One day, when they wero about to close the package, this girl, under m--f:rnations, sot on this box eating liei lunch Neav'v ev?"vbndv else ha<l rone, but Papen, rather debonair, and fond of lndi»= wandered in n"d sat on .he uack-">!r-lm\ and nslced i r he could -hare her lunch with her She said 'Certainly, iP-d while lliev were sharing riie sandwiches he made some sentimental advances, and she, in rather a dre-imy way, took out a large red pencil and drew fwo Ws hearts on this piickni<r-case. ,Jt wa» Captain von Panen himself who nut the arrow through them. And when <he ship reached Falmouth they nicked that packase out of (he hold from about 100 others, and identified il by the two big red hearts."