Note: Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/germanspyinameri00jone Transcriber’s note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Text enclosed by equal signs is in bold face (=bold=). THE GERMAN SPY IN AMERICA The Secret Plotting of German Spies in the United States and the Inside Story of the Sinking of the Lusitania by JOHN PRICE JONES With a Foreword by THEODORE ROOSEVELT and an Introduction by ROGER B. WOOD Former U.S. Assistant Attorney in New York_ London: Hutchinson & Co. Paternoster Row :: :: 1917 Copyright 1917 by John Price Jones Agnes C. Laut 432, Fourth Avenue, New York. Office of Theodore Roosevelt. February 27, 1917. MY DEAR MR. JONES, I have read the galley proofs of your book, and I wish to say, with all emphasis and heartiness, that you are doing this country a great service in publishing it. Your statements are evidently for the most part based on official Government records, happening in the course of prosecuting the various criminals, who by the direct instigation of the German Government, have for the last two and one-half years been using this country as a base for war against the Allies, and more than this, have in effect been waging war on us within our own boundaries, no less than on the high seas. Our people need to know certain of the facts that you set forth. They need to understand that Germany has waged war upon us, and has waged war against our property, and has waged war against the lives of non-combatants, including women and children, and therefore a far more evil war than one waged openly. Our people also need to understand what you so clearly set forth that very much of the pacifist movement has been directly instigated by German intrigues, and paid for by German money, and that the entire pacifist movement in this country, during the past two and a half years, has really been in the interest of German militarism against the rights of small nations, and against our own honour and vital national interests. You have done a capital work, and I wish it could be put in the hands of all good Americans. Sincerely yours, THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Mr. John Price Jones, _The Sun_, New York. FOREWORD There have been two kinds of German propaganda. One, devoted to setting before the American people Germany’s side of the war, may be classed as legitimate. The other has been illegal and criminal. While both are set forth in this narrative, the greater space has been devoted to illegal activities.