The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-15
GERMAN OUTBREAKS. PREACHED DEVOTION.
 ID THE FATHERLAND.
Promised Negroes That if Germany Won Part of U. s. Would Be Given Ex-
 clusively to Them
By Associated Press


 The story of how enemy prop agandist used German Luther an pastors to preacR love for the fatherland and devotion to its cause, and tried in vain to stir up negroes in the United States with reports that if Germany won, part of this country would be assigned ex- clusively to them, was told to- day to the Senate committee Investigating propaganda by Capt. George B. Lester of the army intelligence service.
 The witness also continued his tes- timoney of yesterday seeking to show 'pro-German. anti English and anti American" policies of William Kan dolph Heast's newspapers as directed by William Bayard Hale hearst cor respondent at Berlin. after breaking of relations with Germany
 The hearing will be resumed Tues day, when several mon whose names have been mentioned by witnesses dur ing the inquiry, including Samuel Un- termyer of New York, will be heard.
 Some German Lutheran preachers spread the doctrine promoted by the German government, both before and after this country entered the war, Captain Lester declared, and few who continued these utterances after joining the army are now in prison. Many church leaders checked the pro- German tendencies of the pastors, and tried assiduously to have them re- moved, the officer asserted.
 The efforts toa stir up race troubles among American negroes failed, ss.J Captain Lester, but it persisted until congress of negro leaders in July last formally recognized the propa- ganda and denounced the movement.
 One cablegram from Hale at Berlin to the New York American, read to the convention. was interpreted by Captain Lester as proving that the German government did not regard tEe notorious Zinmernann note, disclosing movement to involve Mexico and the United States in war. las frame-up by the British"
 HALE MESSAGE READ
 Cablegrams from William Bayard Hale to the New York American late in 1916 and early, In 1917 were read .t..ts -t~., H~ I<t sertions that Hale's utterances were pro German. anti-English and anti- American
 Many of the messages were sent aft CT the severance of diplomatic relo- tions between the United States and Germany and through German wireless to the Tuckerton, N. J.. wireless sta ton. They sought to give the Ger man attitude toward the United States and toward President Wilson's notes Captain Lester selected them from a great pile of dispatches.
 Referring to the Hearst papers. Sem ator Nelson inquired:
 Was this the only American news paper service which got the use of the German wireless?"
 There was no otDer that know of the witness replied.
 Captain Lester opened his testimony 
 statements published this morning by the New Yocts American and dt trib,i- ted by the Universal Service a Hearst organization. He reminded the com mittee that he made no statement yes terday that Edward Lyell t'o'. an Amer- fcan writer who was on the German governments pay roll, was In the em- ploy of the Hearst organization "But that Fox did receive credentials from Marri11 (tban n pa of rrt' 'r York American), that he received let ters from Gustav Schweppendick, the Hearst manager in Berlin, and that he wrote articles for the New York American and that these articles were published in the American,' < Captain Lester stated further that he had documents showing why the International News Service a Hearst institution, was barred from cable fa- cilities by the British rovernment in 1916 and the reason for the restoration of this service. He said he would pre- sent the evidence If the committee asked It.
 Senator Sterling read into the record a number of editorials from the New York American and other Hearst pa pers and produced cartoons which he sought to show by ouostionlug Can tain Lester were pro German, anti Enelish and nd-anti-American."
 With reference to the negro incident Captain Lester said that negroes in many communities had been subsidized by German agents to spread propa- ganda. von Reiswitz, a German con. sular agent at Chicago. had charge of 1t and he v'as aided bv German Minister Von Eckhardt at Mexico City. who, the witness said. spread German prop aganda among the Mexicans and half breeds In the border states
 ADMITS SOME DISLOyAL
 New York. December 14--"we do not attempt to deny that there. are pastors in the Lutheran church who have been in gym uafhv with German ny and thai