The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-17
BERNSTORFF HEAD
OF PROPAGANDA?
Providence Journal in Charge
Against Ambassador.
He Is Accused of Spending
Huge Sums UnlawfulIy.
POSITIVE PROOF PROCURED
POSITIVE PROOF PROCURED
Threats Have Been Made
Against Munitions Workers.
Millions of Dollars Spent in
Last Few Months.

| providence, H. l., Nov. 17.-The
Providence Journal says today:
| "A vast fund of money amounting
to between 100000 and $4,000
600 has been spent in this country
in the past four months for propa-
ganda work against the allies under
the immediate supervision of Count
Won BernStorff, the German ambasSa-
dor, and DR.. Heinrich Albert, privy
| councillor, who describes himself to a
Journal representative as the fiscal
| agent of his government.
| The Journal has a positive record
/ of the receipt by Ambassador Won
Bernstorff and DR.. Albert of at least
/ $1O,OOO,OGO in the time mentioned. A
great deal of this money has come
| through the Guaranty Trust company
of New York, and most of it has been
| mediately transferred to the Chase
| National bank and other banks in
which DR.. Albert and Ambassador Won
| Bernstorff keep joint account.
All for Propaganda.
THE Journal charges that no one
| dollar of this money has been spent
for legitimate purposes but that all of
| it is going for propaganda work of
the most vicious description. One
item alone, the maintenance of bu-
reaus for dragging men out of NUM-
| ton factories amounts to many mill
lions of dollars. The cost of SuStenance
of the consular service of Germany and
the expenses of the embassy reach the
various officials through the regular
channels which are in no way con-
nected with the fund referred to. 1t
is believed that the entire cost of pro-
paganda work conducted by Austrian
consuls and consu1s generals is
financed from this German fund.
''Dr. Albert was interviewed in his
office at Room IA of the Hamburg
American building, New York city last
Friday by a Journal representative
and was asked point blank to state
whether the financial transactions in
which he had been recently involved
covered legitimate operations, the
character of which he could explain
in general to the public. DR.. Albert
Immediately called in a secretary as
witness to the conversation and then
replied:
A Fiscal Agent.
"I am fiscal agent of my govern
ment in this country and 1 am hand
ling certain sums of money
'"Will you tell u.s. he was asked,
have joint funds in the Chase National
bank and a number of other banks in
this country
'"What is your purpose in asking
me that question: he replied.
HE was told that the only purpose
was to have him state that whatever
joint funds he and the ambassador
were carrying and however great the
sum total of these funds was, they
were being expended for lawful pur-
poses.
DIR. Albert refused to make any
statement whatever in regard to TINS
matter He was then asked If he
would deny that he had received per-
sonally over 100000 from his gov
eminent in the past two months and if
he did not on September receive
through the Guaranty Trust company
the sum of $2,OOO,000 for 'accor
donica' work.
The Goods on Him.
cat this question DIR. Albert was
yisibly thrown off his balance. The
question was based on a wireless dis
patch received by the Guaranty Trust
company on September through Say
ville> purporting to come from the
Litmus company of Berlin-really the
Berlin foreign office-and which read
as follows:
.Accordonica. Pay on application
to Geheimrat Heinrich Albert, New
York, two million dollars. Notify him,
let US know by wire when part of pay
ment is done. Cable receipt of tele-
gram
What do you mean by asking me
a question like that?' DIR. Albert said
finally.
1--WE mean said the Journal repre-
sentative, that 'accordonica' is a code
word used by both the German am
bassador and yourself in communicat-
ing with Berlin and that it designates
the particular account for which the
money Is to be expended
Or. Albert said, I refuse to make
any statement whatever to the Provi-
dence Journal or to anybody else. I
will make no statement, no matter
what you print
Governments Evidence.
1T was Immediately after the ex-
posture of the contents of DR.. Albert's
portfolio on August Is that he began
to receive these sums of money.
up to that time most of the per-
emptory demands for large sums from
tho f0rai0n office had from
Count Won Bernstorff, who within a
period of a week, just before the
breaking up of the Huerta plot, got
over three and a half million dollars.
The government has in its possession
evidence of these large transfers.
ION September %. DIR. Dumba was
also violently affected with a distress
ing financial shortage and sent the
lister of foreign affairs in Vienna from
Lenox. Mass.
"(Translation) I reiterate my tel
egram Of the 5th. If I am not en-
month to receive the sum of S611, Pas.
postal administration,
will be compelled to pay the whole |
amount. 1 beg you to acknowledge |
receipt of this telegram
THE words, Hungarian postal adj |
are of course a blind in |
1 his case because under nc circum- |
stances could DR.. Dumba be address,
ing a ccmf11ur1ce IlOn 10 the minister |
of foreign affairs with regard to such |
n matter. 1t is declared that the |
referred to was connected |
with q transaction through the trans
Atlantic Trust company and that the |
reference to the Hungarian postal adj |
means the trans-Atlan
tic Trust.
The Journal this morning prints
fac SMILES of communications from /
the Austrian consul general in New
YORK and the Austrian consul general /
in Philadelphia to individual workers
in munition factories who have writ
ten to them for an explanation of the |