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I The Organization[1]
The economic, diplomatic and military aspects of
secret warfare in America—Germany's peace-time organization
—vonBernstorff, the diplomat—Albert, the
economist—von Papen and Boy-Ed, the men of war.
II The Conspirators' Task[19]
The terrain—Lower New York—The consulates—The
economic problem of supplying Germany and
checking supplies to the Allies—The diplomatic problem
of keeping America's friendship—The military
problem in Canada, Mexico, India, etc.—Germany's denial.
III The Raiders at Sea[28]
The outbreak of war—Mobilization of reservists—The
Hamburg-American contract—The Berwind—The
Marina Quezada—The Sacramento—Naval battles.
IV The Wireless System[43]
The German Embassy a clearing house—Sayville—German's
knowledge of U. S. wireless—Subsidized
electrical companies—Aid to the raiders—The Emden—The
Geier—Charles E. Apgar—The German code.
V Military Violence[60]
The plan to raid Canadian ports—The first Welland
Canal plot—Von Papen, von der Goltz and Tauscher—The
project abandoned—Goltz's arrest—The
Tauscher trial—Hidden arms—Louden's plan of invasion.
VI Paul Koenig[73]
Justice and Metzler—Koenig's personality—von Papen's
checks—The "little black book"—Telephone codes—Shadowing—Koenig's
agents—His betrayal.
VII False Passports[82]
Hans von Wedell's bureau—The traffic in false
passports—Carl Ruroede—Methods of forgery—Adams'
coup—von Wedell's letter to von Bernstorff—Stegler—Lody—Berlin
counterfeits American passports—von Breechow.
VIII Incendiarism[100]
Increased munitions production—The opening explosions—Orders
from Berlin—Von Papen and Seattle—July,
1915—The Van Koolbergen affair—The
Autumn of 1915—The Pinole explosion.
IX More Bomb Plots[117]
Kaltschmidt and the Windsor explosions—The Port
Huron tunnel—Werner Horn—Explosions embarrass
the Embassy—Black Tom—The second Welland affair—Harry
Newton—The damage done in three years—Waiter spies.
X Franz Von Rintelen[138]
The leak in the National City Bank—The Minnehaha—Von
Rintelen's training—His return to America—His
aims—His funds—Smuggling oil—The Krag-Joergensen
rifles—Von Rintelen's flight and capture.
XI Ship Bombs[154]
Mobilizing destroying agents—The plotters in Hoboken—Von
Kleist's arrest and confession—The Kirk
Oswald
trial—Further explosions—The Arabic—Robert
Fay—His arrest—The ship plots decrease.
XII Labor[171]
David Lamar—Labor's National Peace Council—The
embargo conference—The attempted longshoremen's
strike—Dr. Dumba's recall.
XIII The Sinking of the Lusitania[190]
The mistress of the seas—Plotting in New York—The
Lusitania's escape in February, 1915—The advertised
warning—The plot—May 7, 1915—Diplomatic
correspondence—Gustave Stahl—The results.
XIV Commercial Ventures[203]
German law in America—Waetzoldt's reports—The
British blockade—A report from Washington—Stopping
the chlorine supply—Speculation in wool—Dyestuffs
and the Deutschland—Purchasing phenol—The
Bridgeport Projectile Company—The lost portfolio—The
recall of the attachés—A summary of Dr. Albert's efforts.
XV The Public Mind[225]
Dr. Bertling—The Staats-Zeitung—George Sylvester
Viereck and The Fatherland—Efforts to buy a press
association—Bernhardi's articles—Marcus Braun and
Fair Play—Plans for a German news syndicate—Sander,
Wunnenberg, Bacon and motion pictures—The
German-American Alliance—Its purposes—Political
activities—Colquitt of Texas—The "Wisconsin Plan"—
Lobbying—Misappropriationof German Red Cross
funds—Friends of Peace—The American Truth Society.
XVI Hindu-German Conspiracies[252]
The Society for Advancement in India—"Gaekwar
Scholarships"—Har Dyal and Gadhr—India in 1914—Papen's
report—German and Hindu agents sent to the
Orient—Gupta in Japan—The raid on von Igel's office—Chakravarty
replaces Gupta—The Annie Larsen
and Maverick filibuster—Von Igel's memoranda—Har
Dyal in Berlin—A request for anarchist agents—Ram
Chandra—Plots against the East and West Indies—Correspondence
between Bernstorff and Berlin,
1916—Designs on China, Japan and Africa—Chakravarty
arrested—The conspirators indicted.
XVII Mexico, Ireland, and Bolo[288]
Huerta arrives in New York—The restoration plot—German
intrigue in Central America—The Zimmermann
note—Sinn Fein—Sir Roger Casement and the
Easter Rebellion—Bolo Pacha in America and France—A warning.
XVIII America Goes to War[320]
Bernstorff's request for bribe-money—The President
on German spies—Interned ships seized—Enemy
aliens—Interning German agents—The water-front and
finger-print regulations—Pro-German acts since April,
1917—A warning and a prophecy.
Appendix[335]
A German Propagandist.