Source: File: Von Papen; German Military Attaché in Washington, D.C..jpeg,
[online] Available at: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_von_Papen>
Accessed: 16 December 2015].
For other details, see full text of 'German plots and intrigues in the United States during the period of our neutrality,' by Earl E. Sperry ... assisted by Willis M. West ... Issued by the Committee on Public Information, Washington, D.C." Source: <https://archive.org/stream/germanplotsintri00sper/germanplotsintri00sper_djvu.txt>
For other details, see full text of 'German plots and intrigues in the United States during the period of our neutrality,' by Earl E. Sperry ... assisted by Willis M. West ... Issued by the Committee on Public Information, Washington, D.C." Source: <https://archive.org/stream/germanplotsintri00sper/germanplotsintri00sper_djvu.txt>
In intrigues - as
intrigues usually are -
Involved connections, various strands
And plots - may become stuff of novels.
With arrest of
Captain von Brincken,
Early December
1915, preparations
For his trial
involved others evidence.
Johannes H. van
Koolbergen, Dutch
And naturalised
Canadian - involved
In the case, was detained in Canada.
Van Koolbergen, German
sympathiser,
Was employed by American
Germans,
In order to construct
certain bombs.
Costing $100, explosives
were packed
Into Thermos flasks -
that workers may
Take without suspicion,
around docks.
In every success
of an allied boat
Destroyed, van Koolbergen would
Be paid a bonus for his
good work.
In addition van
Koolbergen had also
Gained expenses in
his part, to blow
A trestle rail
bridge, within Canada.
This was to
hinder supply trains;
The proof of
result being in paper
Clippings - yet without any witness.
After that pretend
explosion made
On the Canadian-Pacific Railroad,
Van Koolbergen met von Brincken.
In a
discussion at a hotel, devised
A flask bomb -
pre set to explode
At a particular
time - could he do this?
Working as longshoremen
on docks
Of San Francisco, were 15
German
Men, who could easily
place bombs.
Constructing an
example dummy
Device, von Koolbergen showed
Von Brincken - to place it in a safe.
Von Koolbergen was then
given
Orders to proceed into
production -
But the request was later
rescinded.
Reasons were to await
calmness,
After bomb plots made in
Eastern
United States - before
proceeding.
Another string involved a Captain
Von Papen, attached to
German
Embassy in Washington DC.
Papen swayed, by likes of
intrigue,
To be involved in plans
in costs
To destroy munitions
factories.
A Captain of steamer, Sacramento,
Previously the German
Steamer
Alexandria, also made his surrender.
The accusations that Captain T.A.
Anderson had violated
neutral
Laws, to supply German
ships.
Anderson had conveyed
cargos
To warships; recorded in the ships
Log, of goods destined for Valparaiso.
Log, of goods destined for Valparaiso.
by Jamie Mann.
Anon.,1915. German
Plots in the United States - Bombs From Bottles. The Daily Telegraph,
[online] 16 December.
P.11. Col.3. Available at:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/12052362/Daily-Telegraph-December-16-1915.html
[Accessed: 16 December 2015].
Mann, J., 2015. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal
communication, 16 December 2015).
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