Arizona republican., 1918-12-10
BIELASKI SAYS ALL
OF HEARST PAPERS
WERE PRO-GEk1,A- ~! *!
Chicago Tribune On Hun Lst-New York Publisher Said
Not to Have Received Money for Friendlness Anti
British Stand Given AS Reason for Attitude
Would Have Been Prosecuted if He Had Pub
shed Editorials After Espionage
Act Passed By Congress
Republican A. P. Leased Wire]

WASHINGTON, Dec ga. Bruce
Bielaski, chief Of the bureAl of inves-
tigation of the department of justice
completed his testimony today before
the senate committee investigating
brewers and German propaganda For
three days Mr.. Bielaski has barred the
confidential files of the department to
show the vain efforts of former Am
bassador Won Bernstorff and other
agents of the kaiser to influence pub
lie opinion in America in favor of Ger
many.
Seven and one-half million dollars
was the cost to Germany of the prop
aganda campaign in the United
states, Mr.. Bielaski said, the sum com
ing from the total campaign fund OF
$27, 7,S50,000 held by the embassy in
Washington. Part of the money wen
for the purchase of newspapers ana
printing and distribution of literature
and part of it was sent to German
consuls over the country.
Mr.. Bielaski's testimony does not
conclude the committees inquiry into
the activity of German endeavors. 1t
was announced tonight that Alfred
Becker, assistant district attorney of
New York, who conducted an mvesti
CATION of the alien property custodian ;
office, will be examined later. To-
morrow the committee will hear pro-
fessor Albert Bushnell Hart of Har-
ward university, whose name was in
the important list of names con-
tained in DR.. Feuhr's diary, and who
was asked for permission to testify.
After that the committee will ad
iOurn
Chicago Tribune Named
In his testimony today, Mr.. Bielaski
read from a report made to Berlin by
DR.. Karl +. Feuhr, counsellor of the
German embassy, on propaganda. This
praised the attitude of William r.
Hearst toward Germany and included
on a list of neutral papers the New
York Evening Mail, the Milwaukee
Free Press, the Chicago Tribune, the
Washington Post and the Hearst or
gans. Feuhr said that of these the
Hearst papers were the most valuable
because of their large circulation, and
the fact that they were printed in so
many different cities.
The Hearst papers are not to be
classified as blind champions of Ger
many" Feuhr's report said. Many Oh
tllt al llCltS iIt DOL ldN VI dDlt lO us
But for that reason they are much
more effective than they could possi-
bly, be if pronouncedly pro- German"
Mr.. Bielaski told the committee that
of all the newspapers published in th5
| United States, the Hearst organs were
| the most pronounced in favor of Ger
! many"
There is no other newspaper man,
said Mr.. Bielaski, whose attitude was
so friendly to Germany.
IF this inquiry were limited to an
| investigation of paid propagandists
we could not mention Mr.. Hearst
There is no evidence that Mr.. Hearst
received profits from the German gov
ernment or from any one acting for it.
"How do you account for Mr.
! Hearst's attitude?' asked Senator Mel.
| son of Minnesota.
Hearst Was Anti British.
| TT probably was because Mr.. Hearst
always was anti British and suspicious
| of everything that country did, or il
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