The Washington herald., 1917-04-01

man desires and hopes upon which
she is spending such huge fortunes
may be summed up as follows:
Countries Germany is trying to win
as active allies: Greece. Persia, Mexico,
Sweden and Japan.
Countries Germany is trying to pre-
cent from joining the allies: The
United States, China and Brazil.
Countries Germany seeks to influence
for commercial reasons: All the allies
and all the foregoing neutrals and Hol-
land, Switzerland, Norway, Denmark,
Spain, Argentine. Chilli and Peru.
An estimate of the amount of money
spent in each country to further Ger
man purposes from the outbreak of
war to the beginning of last year can
not pretend to do more than approxi-
mate accuracy. but it Is Of interest
as compiled from the opinions of an
Investigator in each country concern
ed, and will serve to show to which
countries Germany has attached the
greater Importance, or found the best
fields for her efforts. The table fol-
lows: United States. $4,000, 900; Tur-
key. $70.000.000: Italy. $4,000. 900; Bull
garia, $25. $1,000; Greece, $4,000. 900:
China, $20.0OO.O00; Sweden, $4,000, 900;
Rumania, $15.0O0,000; Persia, $15,000,-
600; Spain. $4,000. 900: Holland. $10.-
900, 900; Norway. $S,000,000; Denmark.
IS. 900. 900; Switzerland. $4,000. 900;
Japan, $5,OOo,OO0; Argentine. $5.oOo,oo0;
Brazil, $5.O0O.00 Chill, 100000;
Peru, $4,000 900.
Table Totals $38S, 100000.
This table totals sSsS. 100000 The mod
Grafton of the estimate that only ST. .0O0.-
600 was spent in influencing the United
States during the first year and a half
of war also characterizes the other esti-
mates, many of which are probably far
too low. If the expenditure for the year
1916 in all the countries mentioned con-
tinued on the same scale the Germans by
this time have sunk some $575,00O. 900 in
bribery and propaganda in the countries
mentioned.
But no estimate has been given for Rus
sia. and there is little doubt that the Rus
sian figures II they could be obtained
would, top all the rest like the Wool
worth Building. Then there Is the con-
tinuous and aggressive propaganda in the
eastern dependencies OF Great Britain.
especially in Egypt and India, which
reached great proportions. although it is
understood that most of it has now been
suppressed. For a long time German
money fomented trouble in India through
an organization in San Francisco and
Los Angeles of nationalist Indians, who
were supported by the same hidden
hands" that tried to arouse anti-Jap-
anese feeling on the Coast.
Taking all these things into considera-
ton. Wilhelmstrasse has probably poured
out from first to last not less than
$500. 900 in propaganda and corruption
abroad-the equivalent of two Panama
canals and forty days OF war on the Ger
man scale.
Assuming that we come into the war. I"
asked an official whose acquaintance
with the ways and means OF German in
trigue Is great. what will the Germans
do in America
There will be no serious physical trou-
Die, he said, FOR the bulk Of the Ger
man-Americans are loyal, and the Berlin
foreign Office knows that. But you will
nnd all kinds of mysterious spokes being
put in your wheels. a violent and per-
sistent peace campaign will be financed
by German money. and pretending pa
trtots will be bribed and genuine pa
triots tricked into doing everything pos
sible to make your war measures harm
less to Germany. That has been the
procedure in Italy. in Portugal and all
countries which have come in under a
system Of partial commitment America
offers rich field for such work. The
Germans will certainly try to interrupt
the munition supply between France and
Russia by persuading the people to
clamor that the government must keep
its munitions at home for defense And
they will work out tricks that only a
German mind could conceive, for they al
ways have new methods to suit each
country they work in"