Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-12-09
DR.. HALE DENIES
RECEIVING ANY
German MONEY
Correspondent Asserts No One
Connected With Govern.
ment Paid Any Of His
Expenses in Berlin.

New York, Dec. 8.-Dr. William
Bayard Hale issued formal state
ment denying that he had received
funds from the German government
while he was serving in Berlin as
special correspondent of the New
York American.
The statement" said-Dr. Hale,
by whomsoever made, that while in
the employ of the New York Ameri-
can | ever received one penny from
the German government or from any
body connected with the German
government, directly or indirectly,
is false.
The allegation that the German
government or anybody connected
with the German government, d.
rectly or indirectly, contributed one
cent toward the payment of my ex-
penses in Berlin is false"
Denies Serving Germany.
A denial that he had ever served
as agent, counsel or in any capacity
in the interests of the German gov
eminent was issued by Samuel IN
termyer, who asserted that his sug-
gestion in 1916 to DR.. Heinrich Al
bert, commercial attache of the Ger
man embassy, that the latter &C
,quire an interest i'll a New York
newspaper was a purely personal
negotiation.
Though unfolding the propriety
OF any lawyer serving as a legal
counsellor to the German govern
ment in this country while the Uni
ted States was neutral, Mr.. Inter
myer stated that he had repeatedly
refused to perform professional ser
vices for Won Bernstorff and his as
sociates. He told the Germans. he
added, that he was under obligations
to the British people, many of
whose interests he had represented
in this country for long period of
years,
t Protests to Committee.
Mr.. Unterrnyer sent a telegram
tonight to Senator +Overman, chair
man of the investigating committee,
asking permission to appear as
a witness on Tuesday or at later
date to be permitted to submit a
statement for the committee record. |
II request that meantime" the
message said, there be noted my
respectful protest against the use
Of your records as a medium for
publicly pillorying and misrepre-
sentating loyal and public spirited
citizens for having in 1915 joined
movement supported by the
authorities for furnishing milk to
starving German babies.
stances" the telegram continued
but it now appears that in 1915
Mrs. Untermyer committed the
henous crime of not only permitting
but of actually abbetting meeting
at her home to devise means and
way of urging upon the State and
Pootofiice departments that they Sc
cure the consent of Great Britain
to the lifting of its blockade inso-
far as to permit dried milk to be
sent to the starving babies of Ger
many. As soon os Mrs. Untermyer
found that our government was UNI
able to do anything to get the milk
to Germany she reluctantly resign
ed"
Sullivan Issues Statement.
Chicago, Dec. 8.-Roger C. Sulli-
van of Chicago, who was named in
letter signed by P. Reiswitz, form
Ell German consul at Chicago, refer-
ring to the embargo league, which
was introduced as testimony before
the senate committee investigating
the activities of the propagandists
and brewers, issued the following
statement tonight: f".
Il never heard the names of either
Reiswitz, or the embargo league be-
fore. The statement that ! am an
enemy of President Wilson is not
true. In fact, the entire reference
to my attitude is absolutely false"