food, arms and ammunition to the Allies. Upon these vessels outbreaks of fire were to be caused by incendiary bombs and other means. German and Austrian officers, who had been prisoners of war in Russia, were passing through the United States on their way back to Germany, furnished with passports bought from Russian officers in the prisoners’ camps. There was a German-Irish plot against England and a secret understanding between Mexico and the Central Powers. All these things Voska’s organization discovered, and it identified the German agent who was arranging to place orders in the United States ostensibly for Sweden and Holland but really for the German army. Thus the Allies were enabled to confiscate whole cargoes of contraband. Voska himself found means to secure the withdrawal of the American regulation that forbade British merchantmen, armed against German submarines, to enter New York harbour. His Intelligence Service brought about the arrest of the American journalist Archibald who was carrying papers for the Germans; unmasked the enemy plans to poison the horses that were being bought in America for the Allies; traced the organization of a German plot in India; revealed the identity of the agents in France who, in the interest of Germany, were striving to bring about a premature peace, and ascertained what sums were being paid for the purpose by the German Embassy in Washington. One of these agents was Bolo Pasha, who was arrested in France on October 1, 1917, and shot on February 5, 1918. Voska’s organization also arranged for the capture of the forger Trebitsch-Lincoln, and obtained evidence that the Austro-Hungarian Ambassador, Dr. Dumba, was organizing a strike in American factories. In consequence, Dumba had to be recalled on September 29, 1915. Voska ascertained further that the German military attaché, von Papen, was intriguing not only in Canada but in the United States and in Mexico. Von Papen was therefore expelled from America. To these intrigues, particularly to those in Mexico, President Wilson referred in his Declaration of War upon Germany.
All this was done as early as 1915. How great was the political credit it gained for us in England and France as well as in America is proved by the fact that, at the end of 1915, Voska was authorized to issue Czechoslovak passports to which the Serbian, Russian and British authorities gave visas. A letter, dated September 15, 1918, which I received from the British naval attaché in America, attests the value which British official and military circles set upon his work; and
