The Sentinel=record., 1918-12-07

 signs that it was the Sun. The let ter said;
 q have received word that our op- pOrtun.ty nas now arrived to acquire tLat morning and evening paper about which we have been talking and that it can he purchased al price of S2.O0O.O00 for four siXths of the cap- ital stock which includes valuable real estate on Park Row, but that action must be taken immediately
 Under pls2er conditions friends of mine will be willing to take one fourth interesr, provided some con dition could 6e made including the option of buying the remaining in- terest which would afford every op- portunity that could be possibly want ed. understand that the project Is now breaking even-that is that it is neither losing nor making money but my friends are satisfied that it can be made a substantial earner and | am disposed to agree with them.
 q shall be glad to hear from yuu as to whether you are now in po- sition to take up this subject seriously and promptly with me and bring it to conclusion, if, as I believe the terms are advantageous.
 " lexpeet to leave here on the 2Sth spending the forenoon of March l in Washington and returning to New York that night.
 "I shall have to leave March 10 for South America as a member of the international high commission If which Secretary McAdoo is chair man.
 Mr Belaski also produced a cc2y of a message relating to Dr. Hale going to Germany. for the Hearst newspapers, which he said was sent by Bernstorff to Berlin June 2, l916, through BuenOs Aires and Stockholm, Dr. Hale, the witness said was on the German embassy payroll at $lj,- 000 a year and also received $500 a week as q writer for the Hearst pa pers William Randolph Hearst, he said, did not know that Dr. Hale was in the pay of the German government
 Von Bernstorif's messageI which asked preferential treatment of Hale, because he was employed by the Heart organs. follows:
 Tn conformity to Your EXCellency $ wish 1 suggest that the present is a favorable time to get Hearst to send a first rate journalist to Berlin. The man selected w. B. Hale, has been, as Your EXcellency knows, since the beginning of the war. q confidential agent of the embassy and as such has bound by contract until June 23, 1918. In making this arrangement, the main Idea was that Hale would he the most substantial man to start the reorganization of the news seryice after peace on the right lines.
 .I request full confidence may bel accorded to Hale who will bring with him a letter of recommendation from me to Dr. Hammat.
 Hearst is not aware that Hale isl our agent, but knows hm only as a Germanoppile journalist who has contributed leading articles to pa pers
 Another message dated June ,, 1916, said.
 Hale tells me and Hearst con firms that the latter is rather hurt that on Wiegand's account the World gets all the moprtant Berlin inter views. recommend that under suit able circumstances Hale should, for obvious rqsons, be given preference, as Hearst oraans have during the course of the war always placed them selves outsro&en.y on our side"
 Mir BielasM produced letters which he said Dr Hale wrote to Dr. Albert advising nim how notes written by Secretary Bryan during the Lusltan- ia controversy had been answered lie also testified that Hale was paid Dy the German government 10 visit Rumania. and if possible, prevent that nation from entering the war.
 He said that Mir Hearst was tgnor- amt of Hale's employment on this mission.
 Mir. Bielaskt gave the committee list Of names Of prominent Americans, which. he said, contained names oI practically all those who were active pro-German before the entrance ot the United States into the war
 In addition he said, there Was a list of about thirty names of persons 10 whom German propaganda was mari ed, but these men were not believed to be friendly to the eGrman cause The committee excluded this list from the record
 Among the American c0rrespon- dents to go to Germany in 1917, was Edward l.. Fox, writer, who he said had been employed by Dernburg, On his return, Mir Bielaski testified, Fox presented a plan for stirring up trouble between the United States and Japan as the means of stopping munition shipments, and in the hope that the United States would become an ally of Germany.
 Fox, said Mir. Bielaski, suggested the writing of plays. scenarios and vaudeville sketches as part of his pro