Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-05
VON BERNSTORFF COT
PLOT FUNDS DIRECT
FROM BERLIN OFFICE
Nearly Two Million Dollars
Furnished by German Gov
eminent to Ambassador for
Use of BOIo PaSha

NEW YORK. Oct 4.-Evijsnce in
New York banks for The Deutsche BaaS
Of Berlin, and which were employed %
pay Molo Pasha. German spy and peace
prcpasandist. were placed at the dis
posal Of Count Won BernsJorff by wire
less messages from the German foreign
office. was obtained to-day b. state At
torney General Merton F Lewis.
This revelation came Oh the heels OF
disclosures which showed how Bolo
Pasha, now imprisoned in France as
traitor, came 10 this country TO carry
on his work OF influencing newspapers
in BEHALF OF Germany.
Hugo Schmidt. resident agent Of the
Deutsches bank of Berlin. appeared be
fore Attorney General Lewis. OF New
York state, in response 10 q subpoena
this afternoon and turned over 20 him
copies Of wireless messages he had ex-
changed with the bank in Berlin
The messages showed that the code
name for Won Berns5Orf was Charles
GIedhill"
The code for the Guaranty Trust COM
pany OF New York, where some of the
German funds were deposited was Fred
Hoomen-"
Another code designated the Berlin
foreign Office II was William Foxley"
The first message surrendered by
Schmidt was one sent via Sayville by
him TO the bank IN Berlin dated March
IL. 1915. The message said:
Communicate with William Foxiey
and telegraph whether he has placed
money my disposal for Charles Gled-
hill"
The answer. dated March Is. said:
T-NnAhNn
Hoonen received money our account
You may dispose accordingly"
On the same day Schmidt sent the fol-
lowing wireless TO Berlin:
Your wireless received. Paid to
Chas. GledhIll through Fred Hoomen
$500, 900 Gledhill requires further ST.
100, 900 which shall pay gradually"
On March II the following reply came
10 Schmidt from Berlin:
You may dispose out Of Fred Hoo
men on behalf Of Gledhil 31.7oO.Ooo."
This, cable was signed Direction" as
were other cables from the bank
The following report was then sent by
Schmidt TO Berlin March Is:
Paid Chas. GledhilI further $500, GOO"
On March 20 Schmidt wired the
Deutsches bank in Berlin:
Paid Chas. Giedhill $500,
-Four days later Schmidt sent the FOL
lowing:
paid cnAs oledhin further 100000"
On April this message was sent by
Schmidt TO the Berlin bank:
Paid Charles GledhiI .4ss. 500. Final
payment"
This evidence concIusively proves, ac-
cording to the attorney general, that
Count Won Bernstorff had a direct hand
in directing the activities Of Bolo Pasha-
who is now under arrest in Paris. 1t
was obtained. he said, from Hugo
Schmidt. agent here OF the Deutsche
bank. whom he examined today.
Attorney General Lewis made the
records public. today. with sane
ton of the state department and
the French department and the Fren n
ambassador. They show that Bolo
Fasha made a flying trip to the United
States last year to hold a secret con-
ference with Bernstorff, that Bern
storff advanced him approximately ST.
200 coo which was cleverly transferred
via four great banks to Bolo Pasha.
and that Bolo Pasha, while thus acting
as oermany's secret agent in New York.
met a number Of persons. including
VIM. Randolph Hearst
Hearst, according TO evidence made
public by Lewis. was A guest at din
ner al Sherry's with Bolo Pasha.
There were present at this dinner,
Mr.. Lewis told newspaper men. Adolph
Pavenstedt who figured as an inter
mediary for the transfer Of German
funds into New York banks TO be sent
TO Paris for peace propaganda among
French newspapers; Captains Boyd
and Won Papen, naval and military at
taches of the German embassy, and
Jules Bets. a French lecturer. who. II
was revealed. received money from Bolo
Pasha-
The French conspirstor is said to have
declared that--he hoped to convert"
Hearst, and was a guest in Hearst's
horne.
So clever was the manipulation Of
he funds given Pasha. that some OF the
money went through J p. Morgan and
company and some through the Cana
dian bank. but so distributed that its
source could not be traced.
Bolo Pasha is now held IN Paris Is
a traitor. His work through interna-
tional channels TO currupt certain
French papers IN the interests Of Ger
many furnishes one of the most amaz-
ing episodes of the war.
The investigation by Attorney General
Lewis began eleven days ago. The
amount OF money which Bernstorff
through his financial agent. Hugo
Schmidt, turned over to Bolo Pasha to-
jailed s1.sS3.500, the money coming
INTO possession of Bolo Pasha after II
had passed through a carefully pre-sr-
ranged system Of transfers from one
bank to another TO hide its origin and
20 make IL impossible for one bank to
know what part the other institution
had in the transfer.
MANY BANKS IN CIRCLE.
The banking Institutions which form
ed what the attorney general terms "the
circle around which the money Travelled
on its way to Bolo Pasha." were the
Deutsches bank, the national Park bank
the guaranty Trust company. ]. P. Nor
gan & Co. and the Royal Bank OF Can
ada. With the exception of Adolph Pa
venstedt none Of the bankers had any
reason to believe, IL is said, that there
was anything strange in the transaction
Pavenstedt was examined yesterday by
Mr.. Lewis
a statement given out by Mr.. Lewis
brings into the affair. besides Count Won
Bcrnstorff. the ex-German ambassador
TO the United States. Hugo Schmidt
German banker, and agent in New York
ND to the break with Germany of the
Deutsches Bank OF Berlin: Adoplh Pa
venstedt. former head OF the New York
banking house of q. Amsinck and COM
pany. and q number Of other persons
whose names are for the present with