Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-08-22
WOULD CONTROL PAPERS
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
'hh'Germans Expect to Bride Press
by Advertisements offered
After tho War.
PROPAGANDA is FAR.KEACHIN,i
Campaign in Favor OF Entire Pro-
gram Of Annexation and Plumber
icing Carried on at Home-Re-
Gently Extended Operations.
,By Il Special Correspondent. }


Gently Extended Operations.
'By Il Special Corrcspondcnt.J
LONDON August Give come now
to the third branch of the German
ann The influencing OF opinion abroad.
/" ono scrSc. OF course, this is already
Doing done through VOLTS telegraph
hdrcau y communication in the Ham
burger Frcmdcnblatt. Of Lnc 4. 1917.
POINTED gu, that, in addition TO buying
M newspapers. The Pan-Gcrman organ
!aation was obtaining control OF a
treat number Of home IA foreign
telegraph agencies. we do not know
iiA actual relation TO Wolh, hut Wolns
'1essagcs il: fact are often coiorcd in
Fdn-Gcr.nan sense, and no one has
ever answered the question which Nor-
"aris asked last year about Wolms
Hufcau is II an instru. en-; OF the
government or an Office q krupps
fress agency? 1t Is hoped. ii course.
10 Dust Reuter- But he matter VIII
only become really important after
peace, and ii is for peace tina prepare
iohS ere being made.
There Was ~ consdc able scheme set
iioo, in Germany shortly before the
var for Influencing the fors:sn press
through company formcd for that
purpose, fun details Of which were
published in a British BlueboOk. The
moNin. spirits in this scheme We're
Herr BALM OF the Hamburs-Amcrika
Limo and Or. lianmann, director Of the
Press Bureau of the Foreign Office;
" had behind IL the big shipping lines.
The ncutschc and D!sconto -Gescilschaft
Banks, and some great industrial firms,
including krupps The scheme pivo;cd
an, the value OF embellishments foreign
papcrs were to he brought 10 deal cN-
"lusivcly with this organization for
their VS. by the members refusing
80 advertise in any papers that die
not como into line.
SCHEME Is not DEAD.
HuT ONLY sLI-:PING
This scheme, VIC have been told. is
not dead. but only asleep. Bus 80 far
aa VIC know IL vas rather governmental
ihan Pant German. hut 1t Is doubtful II
Balm would cali himself u Painter
man. and tho Foreign oi'iSc YEAS OK
pcctcd 10 exercise tn decisive influ-
cnco. Meanwhile Iiamnanu has retired.
and his place has been taken by Fret
herr Won Draun. VIII is attempting
what Hanmann never achieved. Il sys-
tcnistic control Of the German press.
every government department nov has
is own press bureau. and Won Braun
,outrois the whole from tn. Imperial
Chanceiior'S Office, and the imperial
and state government. arc now def
nitcly substituting tho Less. The
amount OF the subsidy mus, be large.
as Wci.lar l. finding 100000 for its
own insignificant papers Side by side
I'M. mi linn, no
gag, year. has run the Increasing Pan
German control 0f the press, and We
must assume that what is happening
IS what has happc III with the prop
aSanda III the trenches: rominally. the
government have nothing 20 do with
the ran-Gcrman organization but
really they work hand In hand
The hiEEc: Pam German scheme also
starts from che idea Of advertisements.
This time ii report be true. the NOV
ing force im the matter is .krupps.
We have already seen. in the case OF
the monopoly OF the advertisements on
the Prussiam state railways. that the
Phn-"ermahs thoroughly understand
,,,.. ,.,o,,,a,, h.,.a ,.,a,,
by Tho activities az the AIlgcmeiro An
zcir.r Gcsellschaft Uniyers,l pub-
N D..
Ala which raised its canital from
es5o.0o0 to fl.0oo0oo. In March Herr
Thcodor Wolf. i'm the BcrIinc- Tacc
hlat,. gave the history of this con-
,ern. which was founded at Essen bv
krupps AID other prominent Nest
German industrialis,s. hu, now has its
HEADQUARTERS n, Berlin. |, * managed
by Herr Huscnbcrc :, director of
Erupps Its business is 10 influence
German papcrs in the Pan-Grrman
sense; it generally has huge front-pare
advertisements inserted As lis con-
siitutcnt firms never used 10 advertise
inc advertisements can only serve :,
u.!itical end In connection WIN ,hi,
concern, another organization, ms occn
formed TO watch the German and for
cisn press, and collect information
about the worlds newspapers for -,