Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-12-20
HUN PROPAGANDA
STILL BUSY HERE
Warrington Told Berlin is Centre
Of New Nest Of AntiAmeri-
can Workers.


State Department was informed yester-
DAWN dispatch from tho Netherlands cap
ital
Officials here assumed that the IN
formation was sent from The Hague
TO exnlan the spreading Of reports that
the United States and the Allies are not
in agreement over certain issues to be
dealt with at the peace conference.
The following was ISSUED by the
State Department:
State Department advices indicate
that the German propaganda, at the
head of which Is Professor Brinckmann
is still carrying on work aimed against
America Information reaching the
Department is TO the effect that he is
being literally supplied with money and
that a very vicious anti-American docu-
mcnt is being put out by Brinckmann' S
bureau. together with numerous other
anti-Amcrican publications. The propa-
ganda is the same as was being carried
on from The Hague during The war and
il IS being kept up as vigorously as before
the money to pay the expenses Of the
propaganda office being extended through
German official channels
FINANCING METHODS DESCRIBED.
Propaganda machinery set up by the
German Government in Rcrlin and
throughout the world to spread Ger
manic ideas, and the methods Of finan-
ring this in the United States, were
described today To the Scnate lnvcsti-
eating Committee by Alfred l.. Becker
Deputy Attorney General of New York.
The witness also told Of his invosti-
cation for the French Government of
the success of Rolo Pasha, executed as
= French traitcr IN getting 81 ,6S} 900 of
f1S,
chase Of the Paris Journal. but added that
since apparently the Paris Journal did
not change its attitude Of loyalty toward
France. the transaction was n pure
swirdle'' of the German Government
Mr. Becker read Documents gatherc
partly bv the British Secret Service show
ing that the German Foreign Office and
other government departments at Berlin
maintained elaborate systems both be-
fore and after the European war began
To influence thought all over the world,
working mainly through the press. Bran
cheS Of German banks and commercial
houses co-operated in q vast cohesive
organization 10 promote friendly relations
toward Germany. Journalists, college
professors, bankers business men and
commercial consular sttaches-fnany OF
them being citizens of the country IN which
SAID. Usually the propaganda was in
sidious, with An attempt to conceal its
real nature or purpose
A. early as 1909 said Mr. Becker,
George Won Skal, former German reserve
o'iiccr and later auditor OF accounts OF
\cW York City. Was told on a visit to
ierlin hv = representative OF the Foreign
Oiico Press E-9-al hat he would be
valuable IL ease Of a fufurl a. to keep IN
ouch With nc press In tho United States.
1er' was no evidence. however, that he
'ed ID lhl~ capacity after the United
states entered the war, Ie witness said
To CIT MD OF UN.sERsrrIsS.
Inc German Government, n May, 1871
three months before the war opened. tried
in vain is buy tho Ottom2n Tc.egraphic
New Agency With headquarters in Bagdad
To spread German propaganda. The
publication uf q German edition OF
Current Literature. a magazine. of which
George sylvester Nlereck In the United
states and his father LOUIS Biereck, III
Berlin Wer promoters. was mentioned
bv the witness. together with the Ger
manic museum al Harvard and the move
ments To exchange professors with Ameri-
can universities, aS German propaganda
moves
One example of enemy propaganda,
nd Mr.. Becker, consisted OF the svste-
rIatic effort late in 1917 to spread through
"a. the world the idea that Germany
vas on the verge OF internal revolt and
hat the Kaiser would soon be overthroWn.
The fact that the dissemination Of these
reports was encouraged by the chief Ger
man Government center was convincing
evidence that the efforts were propagan nda.
intended TO paralvze the prosecution of
the war, In Mr.. Beckers opinion. He
smd these reports has been sent out of
Germ any by George T. Odcll, CORES
pondent of the New York Evening Mail.
after Ahc United States entered the war.
and wEcrc circulated widely by the Nc
Cmre Newspaper Syndicate, described
as + bsid ary of the mail
Seratur Reed, who Is not 6 member
OF tie committee, interrupted 20 ask
whether similar articles had been pub
llshef by other newspapers then, and
went down TO the present ;rd that de-
velobments had borne thci out. Mr.
BecH Ter said this was true, tut insisted
that the reports were inspired by the
Gen han foreign office late IN 1917
BoLo PAsHA VERY ACTI- EHERE
Mr. Becker said the Transocean News
Agehcy maintained q wireless service
int<nded TO influence mainly South
American peoples, while the German
xouth American institute, and the Ger
man News Service for Portugal and
Spain subsidized by the German gov
ernment, had similar functions
MIR Becker told the committee that
enemy propaganda in the United States
was disclosed incidentally during his /
Investigation OF the activities Of Eolo !
Pasha IN promoting the financing OF /
the Paris journal and in what was de-
scribed IS All attempt to form a news
alliance between the journal and vii
liam Randolph Heart newspapers
The witness told Of an Unsuccessful /
effort by Bolo in conferences with f. /
q. 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 camou-
hagc. intended to cover up tn. real pur- \
pose of bis visit 10 the United States
Former German Ambassador Yon Bern !
storff assented 50 readily to Bolo's pro- 4
posal that the German government
advanced the money 70 purchase the
journal. the witness said that the New
York investigators proceeded on the
theory that Mr. Hearst might have ar
ranged the purchase before Rolo came
10 the United States. On this point how !,
ever. Mr. Becker said:
II do not say today that ! consider
this theory IN any way established
The witness said there was no evi-
dence OF a news connection between