New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-03
BY CARL ". ACkERMAN

Registered in aceorl4d'c with ths Copyright A..
rsuadi l9ls. TIE Tribune Assoeiationl
Every American newspaper Is print
ing daily propaganda written and dis
tributcd by the krupp interests, the
largest manufacturers of war NUM-
tons for the German government.
For nearly two years the American
press has been regularly printing dis
patches from the Overseas News
Agency. Some believed here these re-
ports were official" This is only half
true. The Krupps have been financing
this news association. The govern
Tent has given its support and the
two wireless towers at Sayville, Long
Island, and Tuckerton, y. j., have been
ueed as "footholds" on American soil.
These stations are just as much part
OF the Krupp works as the factories al
Essen or the shipyards Of Kiel. They
are to disseminate the Krupp-fed,
Krupp-owned. Krupp-controlled news
Of the Overseas News Agency.
News Distorted in Berlin
When the Overseas dispatches first
reached the United States the news
papers printed them in a spirit Of fair
ness. They gave the other side, and in
the beginning they we're more or less
accurate. But when international re-
lations between the two countries be-
came critical the news began 10 be dis
torted in Berlin. AT each crisis, as at
the time OF the sinking Of the Arabic,
the Ancona, the Sussex and other
ships. the German censorship pre-
vented the American correspondent
from sending the news as they gath
cred il in Germany and substituted
news" which the Krupp interests and
the Imperial German Foreign ONCE
desired the American people TO believe.
Last December when the German Cen
Cral Staff began TO plan for an unre-
siricted submarine warfare, especial
use was made Of the Overseas News
Agency" to work up sentiment here
against President Wilson. Desperate
efforts were made TO keen the United
States from breaking diplomatic rela-
tons. In December and January last
records Of the news dispatches in the
American newspapers from Berlin
show that the Overseas agency was
more active than all American CORE
srondents in Berlin. Secretary OF
State Zimmerman, nderSecretaries
Won dem Busche and Won Stumm gave
frequent interviews to the so-called
Representatives Of the Overseas News
Agency" II was all part of specific
Krupp plan, supported by the Ham
burg American and the North German
Lloyd steamship companies, 10 divide
opinion IN the United States % that
President Wilson would not be sup
ported if he broke diplomatic relations.
Double-Headed Propaganda
Germany, as was pointed out in n
previous article. has been conducting a
two-faced propaganda. While working
in the United States through her agents
and Tcservists TO create the impression
that Germany was friendly. the gov
eminent also labOred TO prepare the
German people for war. The policy
was TO make the American people be-
leve that Germany would never do
anything to bring the United States
into the war, but 10 convince the Ger
man public that America was not neu-
tral and that President Wilson was
scheming against the German race.
Germany was Janus headed. Head No.
said:
America. you are a great nation.
We want your friendship and neutral
ity. We have close business and blood
relations. and these should not be bro
ken. Germany is not the barbaric ma
ton her enemies picture her"
Head No. 2, turned toward the Ger
man people. said:
Germans, President Wilson is anti
German. He wants TO prevent us from
starting an unlimited submarine war
America has never been neutral. be-
cause Washington permits the ammuni-
tion factories to supply the Allies.
These factories arc killing your rela-
tives. We have millions Of German
Americans who will support US over
there II will not be long until Mexico
will declare war on the United States,
and our reservists will fight for Mex
ico. Don't be afraid if Wilson breaks
diplomatic relations"
Beginning with DernbUrg
The German press invasion OF Amer
ica began at the beginning. DR.. Dern-
burg was the first envoy. He was sent
to New York by the same Foreign Of
fee officials and the same Krupp inter
csts which control the Overseas agency.
Having failed here. he returned to Ber-
lin. There was only one thing to save
German propaganda in America. That
was to mobilize tho Sayvillc and Tuck
erton wireless stations, and Germany
did il Immediately.
In later article the question of sup
preston of news By the German cen
sors will he discussed. Instances will
he cited and proof given that there
were discrimination and distortion. In
this article | want 70 explain the work
ings OF the Rrupp international news