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
The _Providence Journal_ claims to have discovered an interesting
German document--probably genuine--which reveals the scope of the
Teutonic wireless project. It was a chart, bearing a rectangle labeled
in German with the title of the German Foreign Office. From this
"trunk" radiated three "branches," each bearing a name, and each
terminating in the words. "Telefunken Co." The first branch was labeled
"Gesellschaft für Drahtlose Telegraphie, Berlin"; the second, "Siemens
& Halske, Siemens-Schuckert-Werke, Berlin"; the third, "Allgemeine
Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft, Berlin."
From each branch grew still further subdivisions, labeled with the
names of electrical firms or agents all over the world, and all subject
to the direction of the German government. These names follow:
From No. 1: Atlantic Communication Co. (Sayville), New York;
Australasian Wireless Co., Ltd., Sydney (Australia); Telefunken
East Asiatic Wireless Telegraph Co., Ltd., Shanghai; Maintz & Co.
(of Amsterdam, Holland), Batavia (Java); Germann & Co. (of Hamburg),
Manila; B. Grimm & Co., Bangkok; Paetzold & Eppinger, Havana;
Spiegelthal, La Guayra; Kruger & Co., Guayaquil; Brahm & Co., Lima; E.
Quicke, Montevideo; R. Schulbach, Thiemer & Co. (of Hamburg), Central
America; Sesto Sesti, Rome; A. D. Zacharion & Cie., Athens; J. K.
Dimitrijievic, Belgrade.
From No. 2: Siemens Bros. & Co., Ltd., London; Siemens & Halske,
Vienna; Siemens & Halske, Petrograd; Siemens & Halske (K. G. Frank),
New York; Siemens-Schuckert-Werke, Sofia; Siemens-Schuckert-Werke,
Constantinople; Siemens-Schuckert-Werke (Dansk Aktsielskab),
Copenhagen; Siemens-Schuckert-Werke (Denki Kabushiki Kaishe), Tokio;
Siemens-Schuckert-Werke (Companhia Brazileira de Electricidade), Rio
de Janeiro; Siemens-Schuckert, Ltd., Buenos Ayres; Siemens-Schuckert,
Ltd., Valparaiso.
From No. 3: A. E. G. Union Electrique, Brussels; Allgemeine
Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft, Basel; A. E. G. Elecktriska Aktiebolaget,
Stockholm; A. E. G. Electricitats Aktieselskabet, Christiania; A. E. G.
Thomson-Houston Iberica, Madrid; A. E. G. Compania Mexicana, Mexico;
A. E. G. Electrical Company of South Africa, Johannesburg.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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