The Washington herald., 1916-01-02

being worked for all there is in them.
Rumanis, in the opinion of many, will
decide the campaign in the East II
she adheres to either side, for she has
100000 frst-class troops and a
strategic position from which she can
turn the flank of either Russia or
Austria The German agents promise
the Rumsnians the Russian province
of Bessarabia as their spoils for at
lacking Russia, and IL is reported in
diplomatic circles here that the Aus
trian province of the Bukowina has
recently been added to the bait. The
Allies promise Rumania for her aid
the Hungarian province of Transyi-
vania. where 100000 Rumanians are
held in what their. compatriots call
bondage, and Rumania would rather
have Transylvania than anything else
So the German agents are literally
trying to buy up the governing
classes of the country, in addition to
founding more than fifty newspapers
and periodicals which are given away
all over Rumanis, containing news
and comments tending to show the in
vincibility of the Central Empires.
and pictures illustrating the vorthrow
of the Allies. The picture papers are
very important, because they circu-
late among the illiterates. who form
more than half the population
The hope placed by the Germans in
bribery is especially strong in Roumania
a country of great landowners In whose
hands the political power is concentrated.
Once these men are won over the country
is the Kaiser's, the Germans argue, and
they are trying to purchase the 5000 peo-
pie who have a voice In the government.
What success this campaign is having, IL
any, is not known here.
Propaganda I'm Greece.
The eyes of the world have long been
on vacillating Greece, but the two chiefs
of the German propaganda there. to
whose activities is due the desertion of
Serbia, are successful in avoiding the
limelight. They are Baron Schenk, of
Germany, and DR.. STREET., an Austrian.
The former is the Dernburg of Athens,
and conducts a gigantic publicity cam
paign, via. the help Of a large part of
the Athens press, which Is generally re-
ported to be under his control. Dr. STREET.
is political expert. DR.. E. ]. Dillon. the
well-known British publicist. says that
it was the intrigues of DR.. STREET. among
the Greek politicians which overthrew
Venizelos after the landing of the allies
at Saloniki.
Purely Commercial Aim.
In both hemispheres are nations in
which a vigorous and costly German
is being carried out with
a purely commercial aim. The meth.
DDS of the Teutonic agents are much
the same in Norway, Denmark, Hol-
land and Switzerland and in the Ar
gentine, Brazil. Chile and Peru. In
the Neutral nations having access to
Germany there are of course intrigues
of great Importance with reference to
0Efa nf ha nd n
German goods to be sold abroad un-
der neutral labels, but these activities
do not come within the scope of this
story. i
In the seven countries named. there
is little bribery and no intimfq ation.
is the only weapon used
BY founding magazines and news
papers and by furnishing those al
ready existing with news made to
order" the Germans seek to produce
the belief that German arms are all
and uncomfortable. They
think the impression they believe they
are producing will remain permanent
even IL the war ends In q draw, ana
that the demand for German goods in
South America and the neutral coun-
tries of Europe will be greater after
the war than 1t has ever been. because
three years of SO constant exaggera-
tion and misrepresentation are count
ed upon to leave an impression. when
peace comes. that Britain and France
are decadent nations. and that pros
porous future is assured that state
which joins itself with the rising mill
tary and economic power Of Germany.
Literary Bureaus Active.
A great proportion of the literary prod
uct wi h which South America is flooded
in the interests of Germany Is prepared
In the United States. There are literary
bureaus In New York and Chicago which
furnish by cable. for nothing or for a.
nominal fee such al 81 q month. news