South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-12-10
TRIBUNE ON
GERMAN LIST
Of NEUTRALS
Former Councillor of TeutOr
Embassy at Capital SendS
Report to Berlin.

/ before the senate committee inves-
/ tigatiuE brewers and German propa-
ganda For three days Mr. Bielaski
+ has barred the confidential files os
The department to show the vain ef-
\ forts Of former Ambassador Won
I Bernstorn and other agents Of the
| kaiser TO influence public sentiment
I In America in favor of Germany
Seven and one-half million dol
\ lars was the cost to Germany OF the
+ propaganda campaign in the United
! States. Mr.. Bielaski said. the sum
/ coming from the total fund OF ST.
/ 100000 held by the embassy in
/ Washington Part Of the money
went for the purchase Of newspapers
/ and the printing and distributing os
literature and part of il was sent to
/ German consuls over the country.
Hart VIII BE Heard.
Mr. Bielaski's testimony does not
| conclude the committees inouirv
! into the activity Of the German rep
! resentatives. II was announced to-
night that Alfred T.. Becker. assist
/ ant district attorney of New York.
/ who conducted AN Investigation Of
! German propaganda. and Francis
! Garvin. chief Of the bureau of in
/ vestigation of the alien property
! custodian's Office. will be examined
later Tuesday the committee viii
| hear Prof. Alfred Bushnell Hart OF
/ Harvard university. whose name was
i'm the important list of names con
tanned in DR.. Feuhr's diary and who
| asked permission to testify. and
after that viii adjourn for several
| days
In the course of his testimony to-
day Mr.. Bielaski read from "a report
made to Berlin by Or. Karl r..
Feuhr. councillor of the German en-
bassy. on propaganda. This praised
the attitude Of William Randolph
Hearst toward Germany, and in
cluded on a list Of neutral" papers
the New York Evening Mail. the
/ Milwaukee Free Press. the Chicago
Tribune, the Washington Post. and
the Hearst organs. Feuhr said that
of these the Hearst papers were tho
most valuable because Of their large
/ circulation and the fact that they
/ printed i'm so many cities.
Hearst Not Favorable
THE Hearst papers are not to be
classified as blind champions of Ger
many Feuhr's report said. Many
IF the articles are not favorable To
us. But for that reason they are
much more effective than they could
| possibly be if pronounced pro-Ger-
man"
Mr.. Bielasl1i told the committee
that of an the newspapers published
i'm the United States. the Hearst
organs were the most pronounced
i'm favor of Germany"
There is no other newspaper
man" said Mr. Bielaski. whose at
titude was SO friendly to Germany.
III this inquiry we're limited 10
Ian Investigation of paid propaganda
lists, we could not mention Mr.
/ Hearst. There is no evidence that
air. Hearst received profits from tho
German government or from anyone
acting for it,"
How do YOU account for MT
iIearsts attitude %" asked Sen. Nell
son. of Minnesota.
Hearst Nnti-British.
ut is probably because Mr.
I Hearst always was anti-British. and
suspicious of everything that coun-
TRY did. on it might have been
caused by his friendship with Won
|Bernstorn." replied the witness.
What was his attitude after the
United States entered the ware
iasked Chairman OveImau
His attitude continued very
questionable % replied Mr.. BieIaski.
Many articles published i'm his
papers if published after the pass
tare of the espionage act was
amended. would have subjected him
TO prosecution
Mr.. BielasIi said that all the de-
.partment has 10 indicate tina,
Hearst endeaVcred 20 set any favor
I'm return for his support Of Ger
many was his application for his pa
.Iars 90 get "a special news service
German agents planned TO send 10
newspapers I'm the United states.
William Bayard Hale. BieIaski said
recon mended that the request be
granted because of the opportunity
ianorded for wide circulation of the
news
I'm the discussion by the commit
itce of the neutral" papers named
Jim Feuhr's list. Sen. Nelson re-
marked
The Washington Post Yves bad
Iup 10 the time Of the death OF John
r.. Mclean. I used to read n every
informing and swear For couple
90 years we had oH1v one fair news
|paper in Westminster and that wa,
Ithe star"
BOlo Wanted Newspaper.
Activities ln this country of BOil
lrasha. executed recently M France
|for his treason we've touched Upor
briefly Ey AIR. Biei4ski. who said
Eolo came here cStenSiblv so bu,
print paper. but bon reality Co OBJ
taia money for the purcha~, OF q
newspaper lu France.
solo Bielaski said. was lrough.
to thiS country hy ID repreSentativ,
.ot Hearst and was introduced ID
Hearst
There is one fact ue nave about
iBolo Pashl which has never beer
,published before said Mr. Bleaski
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