The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-08-25
BRINGS out FACTS
NEW YORK WORLD PUBLISHES
SOME GERMAN DOCUMENTS
STARTLING DISCLOSURES

How Germans are Preventing the Al
lies From Getting War Materials
Huge Propaganda to Alter Ameri-
can Public Opinion-Enormous
Factory Built by Germans.
In the publication of a series Of
startling disclosures, fully pro-
tected by the copyright laws OF
this country, The New York World
is gradually unfolding one OF the
most startling chapters in the his
tory Of the war now raging. The
World has by some means un-
known come into possession of the
letters and reports Of many Ger
man confidential agents and Off
ciaIs in this country, which tend
to show that there is in operation
an enormous propaganda in this
country in the interests Of Ger
many, that cash to turn public
favor to the side Of Germany has
been freely supplied, and that
some of the facts have been at
least with the knowledge of the
accredited representatives Of the
German goyernemnt, although
they have not yet been directly
implicated in the performance of
ny Of the acts themselves.
On Sunday The World began its
articles. and in that issue showed
that George Sylvester Viereck, editor
and publisher of The Fatherland, an
ardent pro-German paper in New
York, received and acknowledged the
payment Of $3.50, and was expecting
to secure $500 more the month
of June.
It seems from the letter published
that the editor fully realized the ma
ture of his transact on would not
bear the light of day f,r he suggests
that the payments be made to my
personal friend and lawyer, Ely
Simpson, whose standing as my legal
adviser would exempt him from any
possible inquiry" Elsewhere in the
same letter he says: II 2m sending
this letter by boy, as for Obvious rea-
sons I do not wish it to go through
the mails"
The letter from Viereck was ad-
dressed to Dr. Albert, who The World
claims is a representative Of the Ger
man government His answer which
was unsigned expressed the hope OF
paying the amount requested in the
next week. It also talked Of a hnan-
cial control. of the paper and an "un-
derstanding regarding the course ID
politics which you will pursue. y
Other memoranda are said to show
that the Austrian government placed
several thousand feet of moving pic
lures to be displayed in the moving
picture houses of this country. The
Times and Democrat several months
ago received an offer of picture en-.
titled 1.-THE Galician Drive and
which was made by the American
Correspondent Film Company, OF
which NJ. B. C'aussen is president.
The World also charges that NJ. B
Claussen wrote to Dr.. Albert that be
had a. thirty-day option for a con
trolling interest in the American
Press Association, a S1,600,000 cor.
poration located in New Rork ano
with branch offices in seventeen
cities. The cost was expected to be
$500, 200, and the idea was to estab'
lish news service by means Of tick
ers, whose patents are controlled b!
the Press Association.
In long and detailed report made
for Berlin the German ambassador
and Dr.. Albert give careful stud!
of the plan to establish q news bu'
reau and leetu' e bureau in this
: country, with an estimate. as to its
probable cost, and favorable rec,
ommendation of the scheme. In the
report orcurs the following para
graph:
''The news sent out must not
make the impression Of being put
out for propaganda purposes. Al
though its principal value is basel
on its being pro-Ge-man, its sue
cess depends upon the sublety Of
presentation"
1t is also stated that the Foreign
Office would have to let the bureau
have q permit to telegraph daily by
wireless about 5000 to 1000 words
The writer Of the report goes on tc
recommend the reaching of the rura!
communities by furnishing news and
pictures to agencies which send elec.
trotyped plates of 'boilerplate" tc
small papers.
It is charged, and . tier support.
ing the contention, is published
showing that the German chancellor
himself caused to be sent to Ambas-
sador Bernstorf letter recommend.
ing that the expenses of Edward
Lyen Fox, war correspondent, be
paid by the German Information Ser:
vice, because of the fact that he had
been ''of great benefit to US by rea-
son Of his good dispatches
It is also charged that the German
governmnet or German interests had
an agent at work trying to buy The
New York Mail, and that another
agent advised the ablishment Of a
moving picture and lecture bureau
by means of which such men as Con
gressmen Gardner and Hobson, Sen.
ator Beyeridge, Henry Reuterdahl
and Burr Mcintosh might be used
without their knowledge in creating
interest in Americanism through the
exploitation of the dangers which
this country might face from Eng
land and Japan.
According to The World, the
agents of Germany made many eff
forts to, foment strikes in domestic
establishments manufacturing NUM-
tions of war, with the connivance of
disloyal labor leaders and agitators.
It is sad that recent strikes at the
works of the Standard Oil Company
at Bayonne, n. j., at the Remington
Arms-Union Metallic Cartridge Com
pany, in Connecticut, at the Bliss
Torpedo Company in Brooklyn, and
in motor car concerns in Cleveland
and other places were caused by the
work Of foreign agents, who were
interested in hindering the fulfill
ment of contracts held by enemies
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