Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-12-20
GERMAN PLOTTING
COST S27,85O,OOO
Bonds of the Empire and Banks
With Secret New York Loan
Provided Funds.
DRIVE PROVED A FAILURE.
Tells Senators 70 Per Cent. of Enemy
Money Was Raised in America.
Deal Barred to Finance Huerta
and Cripple Labor.

Washington.-The imperial German
government spent $27, ,s50,000 in prop
aganda between the outbreak Of the
conflict in Europe and Americas dec.
laration Of war. These figures from
the official compilations of the depart
ment of justice were disclosed to the
special investigators Of the Senate Ju.
dietary Committee by A. Bruce Bic
laski, chief of the bureau Of investiga.
tions of that department.
The sources from which this fund
were gathered were also made known.
1t was shown that the imperial govern.
ment through the sale of bonds and
treasury bills Of Germany made one
raise Of $7,100,000 in the early part of
1915.
Later in the same year $1,S00,000
and still later $3,600,000 were raised
in the same way. The Reichsbank
contributed $7,000,000 more and other
German banks raised $1,300,000. This
brought the total up to $20,SO0,O0O, and
the remaining $7,O50,000 was raised
by the German government through
carefully guarded agencies in Ameri-
can banks, the largest sum being
raised at the Chase National bank of
New York, S2,500,000.
Z Mr.. Bielaski made it clear to the
committee that the imperial govern
ment's diplomatic agents and secret
service men in the United States had
distributed the big slush fund with A
lavish hand. He did not attempt to
analyze the expenditure in much de-
tail, but stated that the major items
were $1,SO0O00 spent il the activities
Of Bolo Pasha and $1,700,0O0 which
went to the purchase Of the Evening
Mail Of New York.
Senator Nelson asked whether Capt.
Franz Won Rintelen had any connec-
ton with the financing Of Victorlano
Huerta, the late Mexican dictator.
ave have evidence to Indicate that
Won Rlntelen probably helped to
finance Huerta, but it cannot be
proved" he said.
Bielaski read to the committee at
length from the diary of DR.. Karl F.
Fuehr, the German agent whose ac-
tivities figured prominently in the In
vestigation. The notes Of Fuehr said
that on the day following the publica'
ton of private letters Of II. F. Albert
he consulted with Albert at Cedar.
hurst, N. Y, and later discussed the
incident with Samuel Untermyer.
Efforts of the Germans to create
pro-German feeling among the negroes
Of the south proved entirely unsuc'
cessful, Bielaski stated. Stories were
circulated there to the effect that the
negroes were descendants of the In
dams and that they were the rightful
owners of the land instead Of the
white people. Another story designed
to create feeling against the English
was q perverted account of the aid
given the south during the Civil War.
"The negroes didn't take to these
stories, however" BelaSki said, "as
they were too loyal. Money spent In
the south for propaganda was thrown
away"
The Hans Debeau Relief Bureau
was organized in New York with Ger
man money, Mr.. Bielaski said, to take
care of workmen who left their jobs
in munitions plants through pacif1st
sentiments and German persuasion.
and he further said that through the
Won Igel papers it was shown that Le-
beau, head of the bureau, while pos
ing as a philanthropist, was really get
ting $75 a week for his work as an or
ganiZer Of trouble.
Branch Offices of the Lebeau bureau
were established In Chicago, Cincin-
natl, Bridgeport, Detroit, Cleveland
and other cities, and persons were en-
rolled under the bureau in military
as well as an industrial way.