Arizona republican., 1918-07-27
WRECK ADMITS
 SENDING MAIL ID
 GERMANY SECRETLY
Republican A.-P. Leased Wire]

NEW YORK, July 26.-Admission that he sent mail to Germany through secret channels after the United States entered the war has been made by George Sylvester Viereck, editor of Niereck's Weekly, formerly the Father land. According to statement made by Merton E. Lewis, attorney general of New York, Viereck claimed that the letters were innocent communications to his father in Berlin.
 Viereck, who conducted an avowed |pro-German publication at the time this country became belligerent and admitted receiving $100,000 from the German government for issuance here of propaganda, was confronted with the testimony of his stenographer who mailed to persons in Scandinavia let ters intended for This father, Louis Viereck, in Berlin. He explained their dispatch to points in northern Europe by saying his father was likely to be up there."
 How Letters Were Mailed The letters were usually brought to Viereck's office already written. the typist said They were in sealed en- velopes addressed to Viereck's father,
 
 larger envelopes and mailed to persons | in Scandinavia whose addresses her employer gave her. Sometimes. she as- serted, duplicates of the same letter were sent to different addresses. | MT. Becker declined to say whether Viereck's letters since this country en- tered the war, contained code mes sages. Of the earlier communications, he said one series was so written that the first word of each page when placed in order formed sentence, the second word of each are the second sentence, and so on. to make up the message. One letter, written in Ger lman and dealing with the personal af- 1 fairs the correspondent, began when Tread in code
 The situation is extraordinary" and gave description of American feeling toward Germany.
 Says Messages Were Personal As late as last December, according to MT Becker Viereck mailed letters to his father, using persons whom he addressed in Stockholm and Copen- hagen to forward his messages. The elder Viereck, Louis. e'as described by the Fatherland as it's correspondent in Berlin. Viereck declared today that his letters contained only personal messages to his father. He admitted that he had burned the original there.
 Testimony of Dr. Hale and of the German information news service copy reader, whose name the author ities withheld tonight, linked the names of Hale, Rumely and Viereck with Denrburg, Dr. Heinrich Albert and other directors of Teuton propa- ganda, at conferences in the Broad l !, ,al, ,1e haJ6 hn of fices of the Fatherland, the German information service, Dernburg and pr Carl A. Fuehr, author of German prop uganda. Viereck was always there Hale testified, and some times Rumely was present. Before the alleged pur- chase of the Mail, he said, there wa: talk of buying another New York daily a weekly or a monthly magazine.
 Copy Reader Testifies
 The German propaganda, according 10 the copy readers testimony wa: personally supervised by Hale, thougl the latter always insisted on secrecy regarding the activities. It was sen
 daily to many American newspaper
 and its general trend, the witness said
 was to cause alarm over the possibilit,
 of Japanese invasion and to urge tn necessity of intervention in Mexico
 There were sub editors and translat
 ors, he stated, including Dr. Car
 Mechlenburg, one time lecturer in tn
 Universities of London and Dublin
 who later fled to Mexico, and Prof
 Harowitz, now in an American intern
 ment camp. Proofs of the five pag
 news sheets" the copy reader testi fled, were sent invariably to Matthey B. Claussen, publicity agent of tn
 Hamburg American line.
 The attorney general is in possession of correspondence between Vierec , and Hugo Schmidt. former German fl nancial agent in the United State:
 showing that the editor purchased i
 1915, $12,000 worth of German wa . bonds, half of which he later sold H told the officials that he owned thre S10O Jlhertv hOndS