Bisbee daily review., 1918-12-20

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 1914, three months before the war be- gan, tried, in vain, to buy the Otto man Photographic News agency, with headquarters in Bagdad, to spread Ger man propaganda. The publication Of a German edition of Current Litera- ture. a magazine, of which George Sylvester Viereck in the United States and his father, Louis Viereck, in Der lin, were proOmters, were mentioned by the witness, together with the Ger manic museum at Harvard and the movement to exchange professors with American universities, as Ger man propaganda moves.
 To Discourage Effort
 One example of enemy propaganda, said Mir. Brecker. consisted of the systematic effort late in 1917 to spread throughout the world the idea that Germany was on the verge or internal revolt, and that the kaiser would soon be overthrow. The fact that the dissemination of these reports was encouraged by the chief German government censor, was convincing evidence that the efforts were prOpa- ganda intended to paralyZe prosecu7 ton of the war, in NIT. Breakers opin- ion He said these reports had been sent out of Germany by George T. Odell. correspondent of the New York Evening Mail. after the United States entered the war, and were circulated widely by the Mcclure newspaper syndicate, described as a subsidiary of the mail.
 Senator Reed, who is not member of the committee, interrupted. to ask whether similar. articles had not been published by other newspapers then, and even down to the present, and whether developments had not borne them out. Mir. Brecker said this was true. but insisted that the reports were inspired by the German foreign office late in 1917.
 Other News Agencies
 MT Brecker said the Transocean News agency maintained a wireless service. intended to influence mainly South Americann peoples, while the German South American institute and the German News Service for Portu- gal and Spain. subidized by the Ger man government, had similar func- tions
 Mir Brecker told the committee that enemy propaganda in the United States was disclosed incidentally dur ing his investigation of the activities of Bola Pasha in promoting the fi- l nancing of the Paris Journal and in what was described as an attempt to form a news alliance between the | Journal and William R. Hearst's news papers.
 The witness told of an unsuccessful effort by Eolo in conferences with K. ! G. Grace of the Bethlehem Steel cor poration, to get the company to pur- chase the Journal, but added that he | believed this move was entirely cam ouflage" intended to cover up the real purpose of his visit to the United 1 States.
 Former German Ambassador von Bernstorff assented so readily to Bolo's proposal that the German gov ernment advanced the money to pur- chase the Journal, the witness said, that the New York investigations pro ceeded on the theory that Mir Hearst might have arranged the'purchase be- E fore Bolo came to the United States. On this point, however Mir Beckner said:
 T do not say today that l consider this theory in any way established"
 The witness said there was no evi- dence of a news connection between the Journal and the Hearst news papers.
 An Anonymous Affidavit
 When an affidavit by an unidenti- fled person, recOuntng a conversation | alleged to have occurred in 1914 be- ' tween Count von Bernstorff and Will liam F. McCombs. formerly chairman of the democratic national committee and the unidentified person, was of- { fered by Mr. Breckner, Senator Reed on the ground that it men tiOned persons not present during the | and therefore was not evidence.
 Before MT Brecker vas stopped by the objection, he had told the com miitee that the affidavit was made in connection with the New York inyesti- gation of the Bolo Pasha incident and h was made about a year ago by per son who asked that his name be With 2 held from publication. The conver- sation took place at a camp in the ] in the winter of l9lf and in a discussion of newspapers it was stated by the unidentified person Mir. Brecker said, that the Hearst pub { ications iD New York and the New l York Evening Mall were the only ( papers that could be bought The e person said that the New O