Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-12-17
SPEND M|LL|ONS0N
HUN PROPAGANDA
Cost of Attempts to Subvert U.
S. Opinion.
BERLIN SPENT s7,5oo,ooo
Beyaski Reads to Senators Orders
Sent Out py Bernstorff in Ambas-
sador's Efforts to Help the
Kaiser Win War.


Washington, Dec. 10.-Germany
spent more tran s7,500,OO0 for the dis
semination Of propaganda in this coun-
try from the beginning of the war, ac-
cording to the testimony of A. Bruce
Bielaski chief of the bureau of inves-
tigation of the department of justice,
on the stand in the senate investiga-
ton of German and brewery propa-
ganda Some of this, he said, was
used in purchasing controlling inter
ests ia newspapers, some for the print
Ing and distribution of pamphlets and
some was sent to the German con-
suiates in principal cities.
BieIaski was asked by Senator Over
man TO put in the hearing an account
Of the activities of Bolo Pasha, exc
ruted in France as spy, while he was
in this country.
BoIo was brought to this country by
0 representative of w. X. Hearst, Bic
laski said, and was taken to the Ger
man embassy by Adolph Papenstadt, a
wealthy German of New York, who is
now interned. Later, the witness said,
BolO was introduced to Mr.. Hearst,
who invited him to lunch and who
later attended a number Of meetings
with him. Bolo's mission In this coun-
try was ostensibly to obtain print pa
per. the committee was told, but in
reality it was to obtain money for pur-
chasing a newspaper in France. After
getting it he returned to France.
Activities of Labors' National Peace
council, organized in Chicago, in May,
1916, were discussed by Bieiaski.
The purpose of the organization was
to cryStalize sentiment for peace and
TO demand that the shipment Of mu-
nltions to tile allies be stopped. The
council accomplished nothing, Bic
laski said, largely because Samuel
GomperS, president of the American
Federation of Labor, took a firm stand
against it.
Ordered Germans Out of Plants.
More letters from the secret files of
Count Won BernstOrff were read to the
committee by Mr. Bielaski. Among
them were instructions to all German
consuls in the United States to get
German subjects out OF plants pro-
ducing materials for the allies.
The consuls were ordered to stop
Germans above the rank Of common
laborer from working in such plants,
nj. of oil
and to report to the German consul
late at New York.
Bielaski read to the committee at
length from the diary of DR.. Karl
Fuehr, the German agent whose ac-
tivitieS figured prominently in the in
Vestigation. The notes of Fuehr said
that on the day following the publica-
ton of private letters of H. f. Albert
he consulted with Albert at Cedar
hurst, N. Y, and later discussed the
Incident with Samuel Untermyer.
Bielaski said Captain Won Papen,
the former German military attache,
sent message in 1915 to the German
consul at st. Louis saying that two
Workers in New York, Samuel Scol-
lard and j. E. Hall, had begun a move
ment to stop the shipment of NUM-
lions 10 the allies. Scotland was after
ward indicted in the Industrial
Workers of the World case at Chicago.
Tried to Use Labor Organizations.
The witness told how when Capt.
Franz Won Rintelen came to the United
States in 1915 to endeavor to stop ship
ments to Great Britain he met David
Lamar convicted afterward in New
York and sent TO prison for imper-
sonating A. Mitchell Palmer, then a
member of congress. Won Rintelen, he
said, formed labor organizations In
the interest of keeping the United
States out of the war through Lamar
and IN connection with that work
100000 was collected.
"0nly n small part of it was spent,
however" said Bielask. Lamar had
a habit of taking credit for great
many things he had nothing to do
with. At a mass meeting in New Jer-
sey, at which Secretary Bryan spoke,
Lamar took credit for organizing, but
he had nothing TO do with it,"
The New York Stats Zeitung was
mentioned by Bielaski in connection
with the financing of secret propa-
ganda to the extent of S495. A letter
from BernStorff to B. H. Ridder of
that paper said; ITO my great regret,
] am unable to pay any money for po-
litical purposes. as feel that we must
keep out of the domestic politics of
the United States"
81 think that letter must have been
written for publication" said Bielaski.
r'becauSe the money was paid"
Just what the project referred TO
was not disclosed by the correspond
ience, but the witness said it might
have been in connection with the cleo
Ftion of Congressman Buchanan of Chi