Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-12-14
PROPAGAND|S1S SENT TO
 ALL NATIONS PRIOR TO WAR
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ington to the German foreign office September g, 1914 saying Chicago Tribune friendly paper"
 Captain Lester said that Fox con-
 fessed to him that while in Germany
 he had an understanding that he
 would write any thing he was told to
 write by the eGrman publicity bur eau at Berlin.
 Fox an admission that anarticleap- bearing in the New York American on September IS, 1915 dealing with the alleged atrocities by Russian Cossacks
 was written by him under instructions from German officers as a means of offsetting the stories of eGrman atro- cities in Belgium that had begun to come out about that time. "I obtained from Fox his original notes written in lead pencil on the Cossack story" Captain Lester said, "and he admitted he never saw any of the atrocities referred to, and that to his knowledge none of them ever were committed. Fox was given court esies from German officers that no other correspondent was able to ob- tain" Captain Lester said that as a result of President Wilson at personal in- terview with William Randolph Hearst changes were made in the film play "Patria," produced serially in the United States early in 1917 picturing Japan and Mexico in an alliance against the United States. The witness cited this film as one bearing the earmarks of German propaganda ! The German propagandists landed in the United States in August 1914, on the same boat with Dr.. H. F. ALI bert, known as the paymaster of the enemy propaganda system in this country and immediately Ofrmed the nucleus for German propaganda. The German government on July 10. 1914 informed about 130 German civil ian employees at 8 conference in Ber- lin that a world war would be started soon. Captain G. 'B. Lester of the army intelligence service testified today before the Senate Committee inves- tigating German andbrewers propa- ganda. These employees then were dis patched to all parts of the world, thirty one coming to the United i tSateS, to stimulate pan-German prop- l aganda, Captain Lester declared. He said his information came from an unnamed informant now interned in | this country.
 These propagandists were chosen by the German government Captain :. Lester testified because of their knowledge of foreign languages, their ability to write and their knowledge of legal and public matters in general. The army officer explained that he did not feel justified in giving the name of his informant on the ground that this man might wish to return to eGrmany after being released from internment. 1 Pan-German propaganda was start ed by Germany in 1894 as means of i carrying merman ideas to every coup- l try in the world, Captain Lester told the committee. This propaganda he said was to be carried to South and 1 Central American, Japan and China and to the United States.
 Fox, Captain Lester testified. was
 sent to Germany in 1915 by the Ger
 man embassy ostinsibly as q cores
 pondent of the Wildman Newspaper
 and Magazine syndicate and alsOw as
 employed by ,the Correspondendents Film Company, which the witness said
 was financed by the German govern 1 ment The managers of the Wildman
 Syndicate did not know of oFx's con-
 nection with the Germany embassy so | far as Captain Lester knew.
 ! He said Fox was attached to the 1 Hearst newspaper headquarters in
 Germany and in proof presented let
 ter from Bradford Merrill, publisher of the New York American written
 June 29, 1915 to F. NOrgrave Cox, who
 was in charge of the transmission 1 service of the Hearst or International News Service on the continent, locat- ed at The Hague, This letter intro-
 duced Fox and asked that his dis patches from Germany be forwarded i promptly
 i Replying to question by Senator
 King of Utah, whether there was any
 evidence that the newspapers for
 which Fox wrote knew of his con-
 nection with the German government. l Captain Lester said he had no such
 information. He said he had read ar- ticles by many other correspondents in Germany at that time those written
 by William Bayard Hale and Fox
 were more pronouncedly pro-German than any others. l Between 100000 and 3O0,O00 per4-
 sons of pro-German sympathies in- cluding many Americans volunteered
 before the United States entered the
 war. to obtain information of all kinds off the German espionage system in
 this country. reporting to local Ger man consuls and propaganda agents, Captain Lester testified. | J. J. Dickison of Washington, a for mer captain in the United States arr my, Captain Lester told the committee, acted as a secret agent for George i Sylvester iVereck, Dr. Karl F. Fuehr and Dr. H. F. Albert and obtained employment by them in 1916 on his statement that he had access ito the backdoor of the White House" The witness said Dickinson succeeded man named F. D. Schrader as Viereck's agent.
 1 Captain Lester cited an article writ ten by Fox purporting to present an | D..- A.s..