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but a puppet in the hands of German Embassy officials; 
they had no, will of their own, and they had been directly 
ordered through their Foreign Office to put themselves 
entirely in the hands of von Bemstorff and his associates. 
The German Ambassador had been for years a social lion 
in Washington, and 
this r61e was particu- 
larly congenial to him. 
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of wealthy people 
which came to him 
as a perquisite of his 
position, and the social 
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Every attempt to decipher the wireless message (reproduced on the previous 
page) completely failed, until someone who was familiar with the inner 
workings of the German Embassy remembered that on the morning of April 
29th Prince Hatzfeldt {of the German Embassy staff) had been hunting for a 
New York World Almanack. 
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Franz von Papen, the German military attache, was another 
member of the Embassy staff to whom social triumphs were 
more than ordinarily fascinating. Capt. Karl Boy-Ed, the 
naval attache, a man of infinitely greater mentality than 
eitherof the other two, cared little for social life at Washington, 
though he was person- 
ally well liked in social 
circles there. 
When the pro pa - 
ganda of the German 
Embassy began to meet 
with opposition, and it 
gradually dawned upon 
the minds of these 
men that the task be- 
fore them was filled 
with pitfalls and diffi- 
culties, it was inter- 
esting to note the 
change in their atti- 
tude. Von Bemstorff 
tobk up the role of 
martyr. He _ posed, 
and succeeded "in hav- 
ing his pose believed 
in by a large part of 
the American public, 
as a creature of un- 
fortunate circum- 
stances, crushed be- 
tween the upper and 
nether mill-stones, and 
powerless to prevent 
the growing insolence 
of his Foreign Office in 
Berlin, as displayed 
against the United 
States. 
Returning to the 
Embassy from a visit 
to Secretary Lansing 
on April loth, 1916, 
after the attack on the . 
steamship Sussex by a 
German submarine, he 
said to Prince Hatz- 
puts such burdens on me ! " This declaration was received 
by the group with hearty laughter, in which the Ambassador 
joined. 
During this period a good many people were trusting in 
his sincerity and believed von Bemstorff to be in a cruel 
personal position, call- 
ing, as far as he was 
concerned, for nothing 
but sympathy ; a man 
forced by his Govern- 
. ment to do and say 
things to which he 
himself was entirely 
opposed. As a matter 
of fact, many of the 
messages alleged to 
have come from his 
Government to him, 
and to have been re- 
ceived and trans- 
mitted by him in des- 
pair to the American 
Government, were ac- 
tually prepared under 
his personal direction, 
sent to Berlin by cable 
through Swedish chan- 
nels, and then for- 
warded back to him by 
wireless from Nauen, 
the principal wireless 
station in Germany. 
Bemstorff and von 
Papen had no scruples 
about adding to their 
material wealth by 
means of knowledge 
secured by reason of 
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STATISTICS OP THe CPMS^ 
Ameruan Wantjiaper Annual oiid Direelory, publlsbed by N. W. Ayer A Son. renortcd tha 
of newspapers publlalied In tUs United Stalw In 1014 ai follow;: ' '^t™™™ "» 
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April lo/l841 •)• October 80, 1911, 
7 
TBI Wous-s ptirpoee. to "turn on the tight" In tlie Intereut of the pmcla at tarie. vaMnot 1 
forirotten durlnii the year 1914. This Inspiring aim was responsible tor a remarkable feat ISiJ 
^umaltotlc world. It led Tbk Woeld to Investigate the business methods of the New York New 
T^.!?i"""°"' "'"'o*" Company, nothing daunted by the fact that the, corporation waa 
oontrouad by some ol the greateel UTIag nnanelers, men whose decisions were supposed to be the 
The first tvvo words of the message "Welt 1915" supplied the clue 
A Z.'!^^v^i^ ""'"^""' ^^ "-epresenting page, line and word 
Almanack, the message was decoded as follotvs : 
Warne 
175 29 
175 I 
dutch • 
622 2 
1 = 
2 = 
4 = 
Warn 
Lusitania 
Passengers 
through 
Press 
of "Ihe' Emba^sf 'r.' ° 1 ^^''^V^^^'^'^'^""' ^''^^- Secretary 
oi tne embassy Haniel von Haimhau.sen, Counsellor and 
of"s aSHarttef" *J^^Emb-^y ^ " I told thSecretarv 
ot btate to-day that the poor Ambassador was crushed to 
their official connection with their 
through a well-known New York stockbroker, whose personal 
affiliation with the Embassy was common talk in Washington 
and New York, von. Bemstorff repeatedly purchased and 
sold considerable blocks of shares of various industries. 
Von Pa pen's me- 
thods of enriching him- 
self did not stop at 
these out.,ide activi- 
ties. His manner of 
accounting, or rather 
lack of accounting, for 
many large sums of 
money supposed to 
have been spent on 
propaganda work 
brought about, more 
than once, a very rigid 
scmtiny of his finan- 
cial condition and his 
agents' receipts. One 
of his common lapses 
in this direction was 
the giving of elaborate 
parties at Washington 
clubs to satisfy his own 
social desires, and the 
inclusion of the bills 
for these parties in his 
official accounts as 
being necessary for the 
progress of his propa- 
ganda work. One of 
the bills so rendered 
showed that a golf 
club luncheon had cost 
him nearly £4 per 
head for eleven people. 
The note^acompanying 
this bill "declared that 
the outlay was " far 
more than justified in 
the results secured." 
As his ten guests on 
this particular occa- 
sion were all Wash- 
in the 
and 
World 
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Voyage across the Atlantic 
earth 
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that accursed Foreign Office which 
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ington people, none of whom by the most extreme stretch of 
the imagmation could be able to render him any diplomatic 
service whatever, this particular account was disallowed, and 
he was compelled to pay the money out of his own pocket, 
or rather out of the pockets of certain rich and gullible German- 
Americans in New York City, who more than once tided the 
