The German Secret Service in America 1914-1918Jones, John Price
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The German Secret Service in America 1914-1918
Jones, John Price
World War, 1914-1918 -- Secret service -- Germany
statistician employed by the Hamburg-American, was arrested and in
his room were captured compiled statistics covering the exports of
munitions from the United States during the two years past: Oberfohren
said he expected to turn the figures in to the University of Munich
after the war.
Bernstorff himself left an able alien enemy in the Swiss Legation in
Washington. He was Heinrich Schaffhausen, and had been one of the
brightest attachés of the German Embassy. As a member for three months
of the Swiss Legation he might readily have sent (and no doubt did
send) information of military value to his own people in code, under
protection of the Swiss seal. The State Department on July 6 ordered
his deportation. Adolph Pavenstedt was arrested on January 22, 1918,
in the Adirondacks, after having enjoyed nine months' immunity; Otto
Julius Merkle was not interned until December 7; Gupta, the Hindu, was
finally caught in New York in 1917, gave bail, and escaped; Dr. John
Ferrari, alias F. W. Hiller, a German officer who had escaped from a
British detention camp in India and had joined the German intrigue
colony, was interned in January, 1918; Baron Gustave von Hasperg was
arrested only after he had displayed undue interest in the National
Army cantonment at Upton in the same month; Franz Rosenberg, a wealthy
German importer, convicted in 1915 of having attempted to smuggle
rubber in cotton bales into Germany, and fined $500 for that offense,
was allowed at liberty until February 9, 1918; in a round-up which
took place in January, 1918, the Federal authorities collected such
celebrities as Hugo Schmidt, Frederick Stallforth, and Baron George von
Seebeck (the son of General von Seebeck, commander of the Tenth Corps
of the German army).
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