CHANGING THE SYSTEM
After all the ramifications of the Teutonic system in America had been
unearthed through the work of the Federal authorities, an order went
forth to the spies to cease activities that were in violation of the
laws. _Meantime, the Chief Spy in Berlin began immediately to construct
an entirely new system of espionage, for use in an emergency._ The
remnant of the old system, however, was kept at hand for the furthering
of propaganda and such activities as could not arouse the objection of
the Government, even though detected.
Count von Bernstorff, German Ambassador, took steps following the
seizure of the von Igel papers, rather the papers showing the
directorship of the system in America, to issue a warning to all Germans
of the necessity of leading a purely and righteously neutral life. He
sent forth a statement, which had been prepared by an attorney in New
York, to all German consuls in the country, and took care to see that
the State Department obtained a copy of this notice. The notice, dated
some time in the early spring of 1916, said:
* * * * *
“In consequence of cases which have occurred of late, German Ambassador
Bernstorff sent instructions to all German Consuls in the United States
to strongly impress on German citizens living in their districts that it
is their duty scrupulously to obey the laws of the states in which they
reside.”
* * * * *
That notice, however, was simply a subterfuge employed by the Chief Spy
in Berlin to throw Americans off his trail. In December, 1915, following
the arrest of Paul Koenig and other German agents, a formal notice was
sent forth from Berlin asserting that no citizen of Germany ever had
been asked to disobey any laws. But that statement had proved merely a
blind to cover other activities in the United States. With the seizure
of the von Igel-von Papen papers, however, it had become necessary to
make a strategic retreat, so to speak, and to rebuild the spy system.[3]
Footnote 3:
How a new system was devised, and how Americans were employed to
gather information about the Allies is now coming to light. Still more
startling revelations of plans for attacks upon the United States will
shortly be unfolded.
The necessity of such a move is clear because of the fact that the
papers, documents and other evidence developed by the Secret Service and
other Federal agents proved that the warriors and statesmen of Germany
had, at the outset of the war, decided upon a campaign in America to
injure the Allies and to weaken the American Government. The General War
Staff had at their disposal in America a vast army of German reservists
and secret agents, and straightway set them to work upon plans in
violation of American laws.
TWO AND A HALF YEARS OF HIGH TREASON
Go back over the events since 1914, and study them in the light of the
moves made by Germany or by her secret agents here, and you will realize
how, in America, Germany has had a hand in practically every domestic or
foreign event of any importance. _Her agents sought to control the
Congress. They planned trouble between the United States and Mexico with
the aim of stopping the shipment of war supplies to the Allies, and of
getting this country so absorbed in other matters that we could not call
Germany to account for her murderous submarine warfare. They fomented
trouble among labouring men. They schemed to bring about seditious
uprisings in Cuba, and in the dependencies of the Allies, using this
country as a base of operations._
_By means of this secret organization, Germany carried on the scheme of
buying fraudulent passports for the use of her reservists, developed a
scheme for the illegal provisioning of the German cruisers, set on foot
various military enterprises from the United States against Canada,
schemed to destroy munition factories in America, to blow up merchantmen
of the Allies sailing from American ports—and planned crimes of bribery,
arson and assault._
But the alertness of the American Secret Service and the Bureau of
Investigation of the Department of Justice prevented the consummation of
these plans. There was need for a shifting of the Germanic spies.
Immediately after the publication of Count von Bernstorff’s warning, an
exodus of known spies to South America began, and the development of _an
effective system of espionage in every country in South America is now
under way_.
AMERICA’S VITAL QUESTION
_The great question that confronts the American people is one of
preparedness against this or a like system. Any foreign government that
knows the moves of the United States before they are made is in a
position to do the country much harm in peace, and tremendously greater
harm in war. In view of the crimes perpetrated by Germans and Austrians
in America in 1914, 1915 and 1916, it behoves the American Government to
take steps to destroy the system, root and branch; to see to it that no
nation ever builds up a similar system in these United States._
_This Government must take such steps as will ensure it against
treachery from within. The citizens of the United States must stand in
time of danger as one man in defence of our lives, our liberties, our
rights on land and sea, our homes and our national honour._
THE END
_Printed at The Chapel River Press, Kingston, Surrey._
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Messrs. Hutchinson & Co.
are pleased to announce Novels for the Spring of 1917 by the following
LEADING AUTHORS, particulars of which will be found in the ensuing pages
ETHEL M. DELL
Baroness ORCZY
H. de VERE STACPOOLE
Baroness von HUTTEN
M. P. WILLCOCKS
DOUGLAS SLADEN
BERTA RUCK
DOROTHEA CONYERS
W. E. NORRIS
MARIAN BOWER
H. B. SOMERVILLE
ISABEL C. CLARKE
F. FRANKFORT MOORE
CURTIS YORKE
G. B. BURGIN
CECILIA HILL
JANE BARLOW
M. BERESFORD RYLEY
KATHLYN RHODES
EDGAR JEPSON
GABRIELLE VALLINGS
MARJORIE DOUIE
HELEN PROTHERO LEWIS
F. BANCROFT
EDGAR WILLIAM DYNES
_New 6s. Novels_
The Mark of Vraye
By H. B. SOMERVILLE
Author of “Ashes of Vengeance” (4th Edition), etc.
The scenes of this story are laid chiefly in Brittany at the end of the
fifteenth century; and it deals with conflicts, both of wills and
weapons, which arise from marriage by trickery of a Breton lady, Yvonne
de Vraye, to her family’s most bitter enemy and the murderer of her
brother. It also introduces the plots of the Breton nobles to depose
Pierre Landais from his high position in the Court of hautes as the
chief favourite of the last Duke of Brittany.
The Deep Heart
By ISABEL C. CLARKE
Author of “The Lamp of Destiny,” etc.
The background of Miss Clarke’s new novel is Italy, and in the hands of
one who is so sensible to the beauties of that country nothing could be
more appropriate. Like her other books, it is a Catholic story,
beautifully told in her limpid flowing language with which her readers
are familiar.
Avril Waring has never known any other house than the charming villa
overlooking Naples, where she lives till her twentieth year, when her
mother’s death makes it necessary that she should sell it. The place is
bought by Justin, a young man who has recently come into a fortune, and
who is determined to enjoy his life to the full. Without disclosing the
main theme of the story, we may say that Justin’s selfish course of life
deeply affects Avril, but how he is at last brought to a sense of the
worthlessness of his life is related with rare skill and feeling.
The Hundredth Chance
By ETHEL M. DELL
Author of “The Bars of Iron.”
A new and very long novel by the Author of “The Way of an Eagle” and
“The Bars of Iron,” of which 48,000 copies of the latter have already
been sold in its original form.
The Bridge of Kisses
By BERTA RUCK
Author of “His Official Fiancée,” (15th Edition), “The Girls at His
Billet,” etc.
“Men and women do jar upon each other so with the differences in their
ways, that one thinks they must have been meant to live in separate
worlds. A gulf yawns between them. There’s only one bridge that can span
that gap—Love: the Bridge of Kisses!”
This is the story of the building of two bridges—one by the hero, a
young Engineer-officer, and one by the heroine, an ingenuous girl, who
has undertaken to find him a wife during the six weeks that he is
billeted in her neighbourhood.
Grace Lorraine
By DOUGLAS SLADEN
Author of “The Tragedy of the Pyramids.”
The scene is laid on the lofty coast of South Devon, where a Squire, who
lost his fortune in the War, had founded a fellowship of poor authors,
artists and musicians, in the restored mediæval monastery of Via Pacis,
and the American millionaire who purchased his property and built a copy
of Taormina on it. It is a strong love story, packed with exciting
incidents as Mr. Sladen’s stories always are. The millionaire, a rugged
Westerner, and the Rector’s grandson, who has been the idol of Rugby and
Oxford, and goes to fight in France, are both of them in love with Grace
Lorraine, the beautiful daughter of the Squire. Her decision and Roger’s
fate form the crux of the book.
In Mio’s Youth
By JANE BARLOW
Author of “Irish Neighbours,” etc.
A natural and convincing Irish story by a familiar pen. Like all Miss
Barlow’s novels, the characterization is particularly good.
A New Novel
By KATHLYN RHODES
Author of “The Lure of the Desert” (6th Edition).
Captain Moody, having been wounded in France, goes to Cornwall to spend
three months’ leave alone with his young wife. Instead of the peace he
expects, he is involved, through the agency of a woman, in strange and
devastating happenings which lead perilously near to tragedy. Largely,
however, through the wisdom of Deniss, his wife, the tragedy is averted,
and the bridge which leads from disaster to security is safely
negotiated.
A Sheaf of Bluebells
By BARONESS ORCZY
In this long and fascinating romance we read of the intrigues that are
necessary for Madame la Marquise de Mortain to employ in her endeavour
to control her son and to stop his factory for the making of arms. The
manner in which this intricate plot is worked out is worthy of the
author of “The Elusive Pimpernel”; and for sustained interest and for
situations that will hold the reader in breathless excitement, “A Sheaf
of Bluebells” bears a resemblance to Baroness Orczy’s greatest novel,
now in its 314th thousand.
The Experiments of Ganymede Bunn
By DOROTHEA CONYERS
Author of “The Strayings of Sandy” (15th Edition), etc.
The hero of this story, Ganymede Bunn, was formerly a clerk in a London
store, when he receives an unexpected bequest from an aunt. He has
always longed to ride and live in the country, and he resolves to
speculate his capital in horses with a view to increasing his
inheritance. He goes over to Ireland, where he makes plenty of good
friends, not withstanding his odd language and other peculiarities, and
he falls in love. His relatives try, but are not successful in their
endeavours, to prove him mad.
The Head Man
By F. BANCROFT
Author of “The Veldt Dwellers,” etc.
Like the earlier novels by this writer, the present book is a convincing
story of South African life. It is a fragment of life as it was and is
lived in that country, the space of time covered in the narrative being
considerable. The story, which opens shortly after the Boer war and
closes with the annexation of South-West Africa in the present war,
deals with the fortunes of a family. The young English widow of a Boer
farmer in her need makes the desperate bargain with a Boer that he is to
work as her partner for ten years, and her daughter, who will at the
expiration of that period be seventeen, is to be his wife. What is the
result of this compact must be left to the author to tell, but the end
is not reached without many exciting complications.
The Love Story of Guillaume-Marc
By MARIAN BOWER
Author of “Skipper Anne,” etc.
This romance is fresh, original and dramatic in the simple presentation
of the great truths of life and love. There is colour, vivacity and
atmosphere in it. The love story is exceptionally interesting.
Tumult
By GABRIELLE VALLINGS
Author of “Bindweed” (4th Edition).
This novel, by the author of “Bindweed,” now in its fourth large
edition, is a picture of modern French social life in Paris and on the
Riviera, and the love story of a young Countess of Franco-Australian
parentage. It deals with social and artistic circles in France, and
incidentally with life in the Australian bush. It depicts the struggle
between Ancient Vitality—as a revival of the Classic and
Primitive—embodied by the god Pan, and the Modern Vitality embodied in
the Futurist movement and Ultra-Modernist thought.
In Blue Waters
By H. de VERE STACPOOLE
In “In Blue Waters,” as in “The Blue Horizon,” Mr. Stacpoole shows us
not only the beauty and terror of the tropics, but the humour and
tragedy of the sea. The humour of the sailor-man in his hands never
becomes farcical, and he has discovered the fact that every ship has its
own personality and character. Billy Harman, of “The Blue Horizon,”
steps again into the pages of “In Blue Waters,” where this quaint and
companionable scamp has sea dealings almost as extraordinary as those of
Captain Slocum with his “Luck.”
“In Blue Waters,” like “The Blue Lagoon,” is a big sunlit book, a tonic
book, full of the freshness of the sea.
The Eyes of the Blind
By M. P. WILLCOCKS
Author of “Change,” “The Wings of Desire,” “The Power Behind,” etc.
Miss Willcocks’ new novel is the story of one who regained his eyesight
after an operation with most disconcerting results. We are often told
that it is folly to be wise if ignorance is bliss. In this novel we are
asked whether, if blindness means happiness, one should therefore shrink
from the light. It is a story more intense in its drama than her recent
books, since, like “Wings of Desire,” it deals mainly with West Country
types, and, like “The Wingless Victory,” it is a novel of temptation and
of the love that conquered after a hard fight. Miss Willcocks has gone
back to the old simple things that are as old as man and woman, though
here, too, there is the interest of opposing social and religious
atmospheres, and here again many of the “saints” are but whited
sepulchres.
The Citadel
By CECILIA HILL
With an Introduction by EMILE CAMMAERTS
The story opens with the schooldays of Catherine Buckland at the old
Belgian town of Dinant, the Citadel of which, in its dominating
position, is impressed potently on her consciousness. In England she
meets two men, who are friends, and who are both attracted by her. She
becomes engaged to one of them, a devout Catholic, and whose mother is a
fanatical one. She had vowed her son to the priesthood, but he turns his
back on it, though in his heart he had heard the call. Later, the call
comes again. The closing scenes are in Dinant, and a remarkably
convincing description is given of the siege and sack of the town by the
Huns. The novel is noteworthy for its fine feminine quality and charm,
and for its interesting and natural characters.
She Who Meant Well
By CURTIS YORKE
Author of “Disentangled,” “Her Measure,” etc.
The story of a man and a woman who, owing to the well-meant
misrepresentations of the man’s sister, married under the impression
that each was in love with the other. The man was an invalid, and the
girl married him out of pity; he married her to give her a home. A
dramatic incident leads to the man’s recovery, and they are becoming
really attached to one another when they accidentally find out how they
have been deceived. There are various carefully drawn minor characters,
and the story holds the interest from first to last. It is one of the
best the author has written, and will increase her world-wide
popularity.
The Fall of Raymond
By F. FRANKFORT MOORE
Author of “The Rise of Raymond,” etc.
Mr. F. Frankfort Moore’s new novel concerns the progress—up to a certain
point—of Raymond Monk, who, after passing with distinction through the
English schools of music, goes to Italy to study for grand opera under a
famous but eccentric _maestro_. He has been engaged to a charming
English girl and remains faithful to her, in spite of the many
temptations which surround a young and promising tenor, until a moment
comes when his ambition to achieve a great career causes him to be blind
to every other consideration. Happily, he recovers his sight and balance
before it is too late. The means by which this is accomplished
constitutes the greater part of the story; and it is made plain that
when Raymond falls it is not “like Lucifer, never to rise again.” The
sketches of the _personnel_ of the opera company with which the hero is
associated will be found equal to the best of the author’s work.
The Peepshow
By HELEN PROTHERO LEWIS
(Mrs. JAMES J. G. PUGH)
Author of “Love and the Whirlwind,” etc.
This highly humorous book purports to be a memoir, and is written in
autobiographical style by a young girl—Griselda Lovejoy, who is
remarkably ingenuous, and has been adopted by an Earl. Her blunders
create extraordinary situations. All the characters, we are told, are
living people with fictitious names. Hilaria, the Earl’s American wife,
is delightful. She sympathizes with Griselda’s secret love for the
Earl’s son, Lord Dwindle, and the way in which she manages her
tempestuous husband and steers Griselda through her entanglements with
the exclusive Sir John Sumpter-Mule and the democratic Mr. Washington
Yanke, is most diverting. More than once tragedy draws near, but finally
Griselda is steered into safety. The pictures of life, as led by our
aristocrats, shown us in this “Peepshow,” may not flatter Society, but
will certainly entertain it.
The Professional Prince
By EDGAR JEPSON
Author of “The Night Hawk,” etc.
Tells how a young Prince employs a double to take tiresome jobs off his
hands. The complications close with the Prince’s marriage to a charming
Princess at the opening of war. Bletsoe, the Prince’s accomplished valet
and majordomo, is a very clever character. There is a light, deft touch
in the handling of characters and situations, and the story increases in
interest as it proceeds to a happy ending for the Prince.
Ma’am
By M. BERESFORD RYLEY
A novel with a most charming heroine. The treatment is quite original,
the style refined, and the story very human and interesting. The
characters are not the stereotyped fiction puppets; they are all very
much alive.
The Pointing Man
A Burmese Mystery
By MARJORIE DOUIE
This mystery story is concerned with the disappearance of Absalom, a
little Christian boy, who is the assistant and the pet of a wealthy
Burman, Mhtoon Pah, the keeper of a curio shop in Paradise Street,
Mangadone. Besides Mhtoon’s former friend, but now sworn enemy, Leh
Shin, who is suspected regarding the boy’s disappearance, there are
several people belonging to the English colony, all of whom more or less
are interested in solving the mystery. The intricate skein which
envelops the boy’s fate is very skilfully worked out in this most
unusual and enthralling detective story, the Burmese background
contributing to its interest and fascination.
Brown Amber
By W. E. NORRIS
Author of “Proud Peter” (4th Edition)
The brown amber which gives the title to the story is a bead of that
somewhat unusual shade, reputed to have the gift of bringing a large
measure of either good or ill fortune to its holder. In the opening
chapter it is acquired from an itinerant vendor at Cairo by the hero, a
young officer. By him it is bestowed upon a young lady who has lately
become a widow, and with whom he has been upon terms which make him feel
that he is bound in honour to marry her, should she expect what he
himself has quite ceased to desire. This lady has other designs; yet she
is not disposed to give the young man his liberty, and still less so
when she discovers that he has fallen in love with a girl whom he cannot
ask to marry him until he is set free. The story has the above situation
for its pivot, and only reaches a satisfactory termination by means of
divers events. In the course of these the amber passes through many
vicissitudes, conferring good luck or the reverse by turns, until it
finally finds its way back into the possession of the original
purchaser.
Magpie
By BARONESS VON HUTTEN
Author of “Sharrow,” “Pam,” etc.
No living novelist has written such charming stories of children as the
Baroness von Hutten. Who is there that, once having made the
acquaintance in her pages of Pam, will deny her the most completely
sympathetic knowledge of childhood, with its own strange and wistful
outlook on the world. In the present book she tells the story of the
child Mag Pye, the daughter of a gentleman, broken in fortune by his own
failings, who has married a pantomime girl. How the child grows up in
the Chelsea Workmen’s Dwellings and how she fares, with her joys and
sorrows, under her unworthy father’s vicissitudes, is related in the
author’s most characteristic manner.
A Puller of Strings
By G. B. BURGIN
Author of “The Shutters of Silence,” etc.
Mr. G. B. Burgin’s forthcoming Canadian novel, “A Puller of Strings,” is
a powerful study of the harm a bad priest may do in his jealous attempts
to counteract the work of a good one. Father Grondin is sent to Four
Corners, and oppresses everybody until handsome Gaspardeau, “The Puller
of Strings,” who has made a large fortune in New York, appears on the
scene and unobtrusively sets to work to put things right. The real
heroes of the story, however, are the good old gaoler and his
half-witted friend Minyette, who are turned away from the gaol owing to
the intrigues of Father Grondin. The picture of their life in the
primitive Bush and the subjugation of the all-conquering Gaspardeau by a
charming habitant maiden, are told with a freshness and _verve_ which
one would imagine impossible in an author who is already responsible for
some fifty or sixty novels.
The Prodigal of the Hills
By EDGAR WILLIAM DYNES
This is an uplifting novel of life in the North-West of Canada; it is
full of feeling and freshness.
* * * * *
The story is dramatic and strong, and shows how a young man away in the
hills fought and won, and how the girl of the right sort stuck to him;
all the characters have the throb of real life in them.
The Mixed Division
By R. W. CAMPBELL
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This book, by the author of “Private Spud-Tamson”—the work of a soldier
and a Highlander—is a tribute to the spirit, patriotism and courage of
the Territorials. “With sure and sympathetic touch, he reveals the
bright side and the grey, the pathos and the tenderness, the simple
heroism that knows but duty, the inspiration of _esprit de corps_, and
the unforgettable horrors of Gallipoli, where the Territorials won for
themselves undying fame. We congratulate the author and thank him for a
book brimming with laughter that cheers, and with deeds that urge to
emulation.”
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Transcriber’s note:
1. Silently corrected typographical errors.
2. Retained anachronistic and non-standard spellings as printed.