Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-12-13

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The committee adjourned SUBJECT
To call by its chairman, Senator over
man. Today Senator Overman sara
that the committee would probably
resume business the latter part OF
the week. possibly Friday.
samuel Untermyer, New York law
yer. was expected to appear Friday
District Attorney Becker. OF NCW
York. also may testify in a few
DAYS. Praise for the important patt
he has played in running to ear On
certain offenders has been freely
given by a. Bruce Bielaskl' depart
Comics of instructions telegraphed
bv William Randolph Hearst TO lle
editors of his newspapers ana OF oth-
err messages received ana sent Dy niii y
AT Palm Beach, Fla, early IN III
inst before the United States entered
the war, were read yesterday into the
record of the senate committee IN
vestigating brewers and German
propaganda. They were taken from
the files of the department Oh JpstlGe
and given to the committee py A:
Bruce Bielaski, chief of the bureau OIL
Nr. Hearst's messages directed
that editorials advocating embargo
on shipments of munitions ana Ioou
to the allies be prepared for ms Rev
York papers: instructed that reIer-
endum peace vote" in an election dls-
trict in each city where Hearst or
cans were printed be taken, ana tnaI
Windsor McCay prepare CarlooII
for the New York American showing
the United states and germany silah =
ing their fists at each other ana
huge Japan bending forward await
ing to strike "Uncle Sam" in the pack'
zimmerman Note
Other of the kilograms related 10
Zimmerman note IN
which Germany proposed an alliance
with Mexico and Japan and whlch the
Associated Press reVealeu 70 tn0
world. One message signed DoSS5 5
tor" and sent from Palm Beach, SAID
the note probably was a forgery pre-
pared by the attorney general 10
brighten congress into giving the
president The powers he demanded
and perhaps also into passing the
espionage BILL n,,. q
This telegram was dated MarS u, z
and was sent after Van Mann, at New
Work. had telegraphed Hearst at Palm
Reach a copy 'of the instructions
as sent by DR.. Alfred zimmerman,
German foreign secretary TO German
Minister Won Eckhardt IN MEXICO
through Won Bernstorff now in pos
session of the United States govern
ON March l S. S. Carvalho, of the
New York American. sent Mr.: Hearst
a telegram saying that Sehdlor
Swami (Swanson), of Virginia, an
nounced in the senate this morning
that he was authorized by the presi-
dent to state that the zimmerman
note to Mexico was textually correct.
Lansing made same announcement
from state department" and asked:
.sWiu you outline such editorial as
you wanted printed?'
Before the kilograms were read
81 Ia.n nfNaa mi
DIR. Albert Bushnell Hart, of Har-
ward university, whose name was
contained in a "list of important
names" found In the diary of DIR.
Karl f. Feuhr, a German propa-
gandist. DIR. Hart, who has TWO
sons in the army, entered an en-
phatic denial of pro-German tenden-
cies and declared he was strongly
anti-German before and after the
United States entered the war.
Messages from Elihu Root and
Charles w. Eliot, vouching for DIR.
Harris loyalty, were received Dy
Chairman Overman and placed In
the record.
In the senate during the day Sem
ator Hitchcock delivered q prepared
address, explaining his attitude TO-
ward the shipment of munitions TO
the allies before the United States
entered the war. He had been men
toned in communications or German
agents as favorable to this proposal
Senator Hitchcock recalled that MS
attitude on the subject was well
known since he had introduced n
bill to make such shipments unlaw-
full. Like other Americans, he said,
his views had undergone change.
He first favored peaceful neutrality.
he said, then armed neutrality and
finally a declaration of war.
ion varad I'D
until Friday, when German propa-
ganda will be further inquired into.
il was said. Witnesses Will include
Deputy Attorney General Becker. or
New York, and Francis Garvin, OF
the bureau of investigation of the
alien property custodian's office.
Message From zeitung
Among the messages received and
sent by Hearst and others read into
the committees record today was
one from the Vossische Zeitung, sent
via Sayville, n. Y, February %,
nineteen days after the United States
severed diplomatic relations. 1t was
addressed:
"William Randolph Hearst. The
Breakers, Palm Beach, Fla, land said:
"Since rupture relations Reuters
instrumentation more than ever
uncomfortable. Kindly cable brief
statement precise situation opinions
leading American circles. Many
thanks beforehand"
On February "a Hearst sent this
message to Mr.. Carvalho, of the New
York American:
Don't you think we should print
I'm New York the dispatch from Vos-
siscEe Zeitung, which query reads
as follows: Note (probably quote
meantD Since rupture relations Reu-
ters' Misrepresentation more than
ever uncomfortable. Kindly cable
brief statement pTTec.. e situation. My
on the following day. February %.
Hearst sent this message TO Car
vaiho:
use Star-Spangled Banner in all
morning papers. DO not print Vos.
sische Zeitung message"
In a message TO the New York
American on February "a, 1917. Mr.
cabled to William Bayard Hale, then
a Hearst correspondent in Berlin,
and who. according to evidence re-
Gently produced, was on the Ger
man payroll without Hearsts knowl-
edge. Mr.. Hearst said he believed
a vast majority of the people in
America and Germany opposed the
United States entering the war. and
concluded: I'VE earnestly desire to
employ the influence of our country
not for the extension and protraction
of the war, but for the promotion OF
Just and lasting peace"
A message dated March 2. signed
Doctor" and addressed to S. S. Car
valho, New York American, declared
that the famous Zimmerman note In
which Germany proposed an alliance
with Mexico and Japan, and which
the Associated Press revealed to the
world. probably was a forgery pre-
pared by the attorney general.
The object of the forgery" the
message said. was to brighten con-
gress into giving the president the
powers he demanded and perhaps
also into passing the espionage bill"
Doctors Messages
The message of March 2. signed
Doctor" said in part:
agree with Francis, Zimmerman
note all probability absolute fake and
forgery, prepared by very unScrupu-
lCus attorney generals very unscru-