New-York tribune., 1918-12-16
Senators Will
Rip Mask Off
German Plots
More Sensational Stories
of Teuton Propaganda
Expected From Becker
Neic York Tribune
Washington Bureau

Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.-Another
week of sensational disclosures re-
garding the kaiser's propagandists
and their aids and agents in America
is expected in the hearing of the Over
man Committee, which is making an
investigation called forth by ehe ex-
pose of the brewing interests which
financed Arthur Brisbanc's purchase
of The Washington Times
Though the hearings have already
brought out more facts about these
activities than had been made public
IN the whole previous course Of the
wsr, and have given Amelica a stare
ling picture of the danger to which
she had given hospitality, those in
touch with the committee are conf
dent that the revelations yet to come
Will be no less vital and startllng
Three events are already scheduled
for the week. Tuesday Samuel Inter
myer, one of the country's leading
lawyers, will appear, the committee
having granted his request for an early
hearing. 1t is expected that he will
make formal statement in answer to
the accusation made by government
witnesses.
Following him. representatives of the
United States Alien Property Custo-
dams Office will open up line Of
propaganda that has not yet been
touched centring in the CONNER
cial field.
On Thursday Alfred L. Becker, Dep
uty Attorney General of New York
State, the man who uncovered the Bolo
Pacha and "The Evening Mail" deals,
will go on the stand and tell of other
facts he has learned in following the
many trails Of the German octopus,
and of the results of other investiga-
tons he has carried on. 1t is likely
that he will be one of the most i'm
portant witnesses of the hearing.
Mr. Becker is likely to be on the
stand for two or even three days. The
plans of the committee after he is
heard still are uncertain, and are like
ly to depend on the facts brought out
during the week.
that with his evidence the work of the
committee will near an end 1t is
realized that there is an almost meal
culable amount of information regard
ing the German work which might be
brought out. but this material is so
vast that Major Humes and Captain
Lester believe that it would almost be
impossible to put it all in. The COM
mittee plans to give the people of
America general outline, showing tne
extent and the ramifications of the
German menace, serving as an exposure
of what has been done and warning
for the future, without pretending to
uncover all the detail Of the web of in
trigue
What facts the alien property office
may disclose has not been forecast. 1t
is entirely possible that both A.
Mitchell Palmer. the custodian, and
Francis P. Garvan, of New York, chief
of the bureau Of investigation, may ap-
pear. The office has in its hands a
vast mass of evidence gathered from
the seized German concerns in the
United States, and it has been through
its Investigations that the relations of
the brewers to Brisbane, and the
Bridgeport Projectile Company plot
were unearthed.
1t is known that the German com
mercial propaganda in this country has
been extensive, and that the com
mercial espionage has been one of the
most important parts Of the German
scheme of world conquest. The mass
of evidence gathered is SO great that
it has not been thoroughly dlgested
but the committee expects an imnortant
addition to the material it has gathered.