The Blot on the Kaiser's 'Scutcheon

r runs to thrust its poisoned sting into the enmeshed butterfly is nature's most accurate symbol of the vast web of espionag

erning these German enemies of the American Government read like a book of assassinations or li

says that the Kaiser and the Foreign Department paid Munsterberg of Harvard University $5,000 a year salar

ntry of firms in the Fatherland and were bribed by a ribbon and an invitation to the Potsdam Palace; of German newspaper men who were under German pay, and, most amazing of all, among the papers seized in th

d business in Mexico, working in the same field, were quietly elbowed out of Mexico, and an American company, ostensibly American, but controlled by Germans, took over the business of the other firms under special arrangement

anged to blow up American munition factories and held dinners waiting for a telephone message saying that the magazine had just

of Parliament in Ottawa, sank the Lusitania near Ireland, spread glanders among the horses in Sweden, poisoned the food in Rumania, sank the ships of Norway, plotted against the Argentine Republic. Their sp

otsdam Palace, but its black li