The German Secret Service in America 1914-1918. John Price Jones

The German Secret Service in America 1914-1918

Berlin Flammigere Bethlehem Steel Co. Percy Bloomfield Reichsbank Gobber Milbank or John Childs Capt. Boy-Ed George Mallery British Ambassador at Washington Charles Thurston: Caffney Richard British Government Ernest Whiskard Central Bank of Norway Frederick Chappell, The Submarine Deutschland Walter Harris; Edmund Hutton Chase National Bank Mills Edgar Dr. Dernberg Albert Hardwood Empire Trust Co. Herbert Hastings, Langman Howard, Luckett Ernest Equitable Trust Co. Eversleigh New York Sidney Farmer and others Speyer & Co. Francis Hawkins Farmers Loan & Trust Co. Francis Manuel; Edward Gary German Government Fleshquake Kuhn, Loeb & Co. Clarence Hadden First National Bank Floezanbel George J. Gould Floezuise J. P. Morgan Wm. Gerome J. P. Morgan & Co. Fluitkoker Wm. Barclay Parsons Fleuxerimus High Official of Bethlehem Steel Co. Fogarizers Chas. M. Schwab John Hayward Norwegian Government Franklin Giltrap Hamburg-American Line Theodore Hooper Capt. von Papen 15 Code names represented the Guaranty Trust Co. Paul Overton; Robt. Hopkins Hanover Nat. Bank George Hedding Standard Mercantile Agency Hugh Sturges Paul Hilken (Deutschland) Clarence Marsh Japanese Ambassador at Washington Howard Howe Irving Nat. Bank Herbert Miller President of U. S. Andrew Mills Secretary of Commerce and Labor Theodore Mitchell Secretary of Agriculture Robert Moffatt Secretary of State Frank Monroe Secretary of Treasury Walter Montgomery Secretary of Navy Dolling London Robert London North German Lloyd Steven Morgan United States Congress Frank Mountcastle The name of the Deutsches Bank is not to be mentioned Steven Lawson Royal Bank of Canada Gafento Toluol (High explosive)

The chief significance of the discovery of the two codes is their conclusive proof that while von Bernstorff was protesting to the American government that he could not get messages through to Berlin, nor replies from the foreign office, he was actually in daily, if not hourly, communication with his superiors. Messages were sent out by his confidential operators under the very eyes of the American naval censors. After the break of diplomatic relations with Berlin, in February, 1917, the authorities set to work decoding the messages, and the State Department from time to time issued for publication certain of the more brutal proofs of Germany's violation of American neutrality. The ambassador and his Washington establishment had served for two years and a half as the "central exchange" of German affairs in the western world. After his departure communication from German spies here was handicapped only by the time required to forward information to Mexico; from that point to Berlin air conversation continued uninterrupted.

CHAPTER V MILITARY VIOLENCE

Table of Contents

The plan to raid Canadian ports—The first Welland Canal plot—Von Papen, von der Goltz and Tauscher—The project abandoned—Goltz's arrest—The Tauscher trial—Hidden arms—Louden's plan of invasion.

Underneath the even surface of American life seethed a German volcano, eating at the upper crust, occasionally cracking it, and not infrequently bursting a great gap. When an eruption occurred, America stopped work for a moment, stared in surprise, sometimes in horror, at the external phenomena, discussed them for a few days, then hurried back to work. More often than not it saw nothing sinister even in the phenomena.

Less than ten hours from German headquarters in New York lay Canada, one of the richest possessions of Germany's bitter enemy England. Captain von Papen had not only full details of all points of military importance in the United States, but had made practical efforts to utilize them. He knew where his reservists could be found in America. When the Government, shortly after the outbreak of war, forbade the recruiting of belligerents within its boundaries, and then refused to issue American passports

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