Chapter I: Front Matter

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ATTORNEY-GENERAL THOMAS W. GREGORY

Who directed the nation-wide work of arresting and prosecuting German plotters and of interning dangerous enemy aliens]

FIGHTING
GERMANY’S SPIES

By
FRENCH STROTHER

_Illustrated_

GARDEN CITY NEW YORK
DOUBLEDAY PAGE & COMPANY
1918

COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF
TRANSLATION INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES,
INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN

_FOREWORD_

_“Fighting Germany’s Spies” is published to bring home to the public in a detailed and convincing manner the character of the German activities in the United States. By courtesy of the Bureau of Investigation of the Department of Justice the facts and documents of this narrative have been verified._

CONTENTS

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Foreword v

Introduction xi

CHAPTER

I. The inside story of the passport frauds and the first
glimpse of Werner Horn 3

II. The inside story of Werner Horn and the first glimpse
of the ship bombs 37

III. Robert Fay and the ship bombs 60

IV. The inside story of the Captain of the _Eitel Friedrich_ 83

V. James J. F. Archibald and his pro-German activities 92

VI. A tale told in telegrams 109

VII. German codes and ciphers 134

VIII. The Tiger of Berlin meets the Wolf of Wall Street 158

IX. The American Protective League 192

X. The German-Hindu conspiracy 223

XI. Dr. Scheele, chemical spy 258

LIST OF HALF-TONE ILLUSTRATIONS

Attorney-General Thomas W. Gregory _Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE

German agents who dealt in fraudulent passports 16

The official German plotters at Washington 32

Captain Thierichens and scenes on the _Eitel Friedrich_ 88

“When the water gets to the boilers” 112

Mr. A. Bruce Bielaski 152

Rintelen and his confederates 184

Officers of the American Protective League 200

LINE CUTS IN THE TEXT

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A German attaché reminds Bernstorff of Wedell 6

The successful use of a fraudulent passport 18

Von Papen and Albert appear as unneutral plotters 28, 29

The card “of the guileless stranger from Tokyo” 31

Von Papen becomes accessory to a crime 33

Two of Ruroede’s visitors’ credentials 34

Horn’s application for a furlough 39

Werner Horn’s plan of escape 41

Werner Horn’s commission in the German army 48, 49

Werner Horn’s confession 56, 57

The _Lusitania_ warning 94, 95

Code message transmitting money to Sir Roger Casement 137

A letter from John Devoy, an Irish-American, exposing his
hand in a plot with the Germans 140

Extracts from a German code expert’s blotter 147

Bolo’s handwriting 148

A tale told in cablegrams 150, 151

The Cohalan-Irish Revolution message 154, 155