New-York tribune., 1918-12-14

tion of articles and sent them to Amer
ica for publication in the Hearst pa
pers, and they were published.
| AS to the news articles that were
sent by M. Fox, | can say that they
were entirely different i'll their charac-
ter and in their makeup and the
source of information from any articles
that were published by other news
papers that | know of.
Sent Out Propaganda
Articles coming from Mr.. Fox were
sheer propaganda. They are admitted
to be propaganda, and they are pub
lished by him and written by him with
out any foundation in fact as to one
article, under direction of the German
publicity bureau in Berlin, who under
stood from his being over there that
his purpose in being in Germany as a
so-called war correspondent was to
write anything that they told him to
write. He stated that me and told
me the instance Of writing this par
ticular propaganda article.
81 have before me an article written
by Mr.. Fox, published in "The New
York American" Sunday, April 18,
1915, entitled, Glands and Feet of Boys
Cut OF by the Cossacks Says dward
Lyell Fox. Mutilation of Children by
Retreating Soldiers Charged in Official
Records. Evidences off Atrocious Acts
Found Everywhere. Eighteen Lads
Found Manned and Lying Helpless in
the Snow" Then follows two-co-
umn, nearly a three-column article,
with illustrations, in which Edward
Lyell Fox undertakes to represent that
in the advance of the Russians on the
Eastern front through the Carpathians
the Cossack troops mutilated boys and
committed atrocities of shocking
character
Faxed Atrocity Story
The facts in respect to that article
are these: | obtained from Mr.. Fox his
original notes, written in lead pencil,
that formed the basis of this article
He never saw an atrocity, never saw
any of the events that he described
and he stated to me that these events
IN his opinion never happened; but he
was told to write an article to counter
act the information that was being
spread through the American press at
this particular time in respect to atroc-
tiles in Belgium.
Senator Wolcott-Told by whom?
sentative of the German government
whose name l have forgotten. Mr.. Fox
was in touch with the Chancellor, Mr.
ogicials of the German government. He
had courtesies extended to him that
other newspaper men were unable to
get, in the way of entrance on the fir
ing front. He spent six weeks with a
squadron in the German flying corps on
the western front, rode in battle planes
over France and Belgium, was at one
time on the Eastern front, and l OBJ
tanned from him photographs taken of
himself and German ogicers-I think
there was something like forty or fifty
of these photograp which indicated,
outside of his statement and admission,
that he was taken in as part Of the
ogicers' groups, as much as q German.
On April 25 1915, there was pub
lished in "The New York American"
an article entitled "Professor Stein,
Greatest Peace Apostle, Warns United
States of Japanese Perils." This
article was written by Edward Lyell
Fox, in Germany Mr. Fox stated to me
that this article was result of an
interview which he had with Professor
Stein upon general instructions re-
ceived from the publication he was rep
1esenting, that is, "The New York
American" He was to play up, as the
newspapers say, Japanese stuff
"And ] might state in this connec-
tion that Mr.. Fox worked with Mr..
Schweppendick upon matters of policy.
That is, if he was told by Schweppen-
dick that they wanted a story of Hin
denburg, he was given credentials and
would start off and find Hindenburg.
If he was told by The American that
they wanted q story. of the Western
front, he would be sent to the Western