Bisbee daily review., 1918-12-14

were distributed there through the German minister, Won Eckhardt.
 Message to Brisbane. Captain Lester read into the recoTd a cablegram from Lord NOrthcliffe to Arthur Brisbane, in December, 1916, two months after the International News Service cable privilege hal been revoked, urging Bribsane to come to England.
 Suggest you come to England. full authority" read the cablegram. "On the event given proper assurances your part. believe matter can be satisfactorily adjusted. Best wishes for 1917"
 William Bayard Hale said Captain ! Lester, became editor of the prOpa- ganda sheets issued by the German press bureau early in 1914, on solici- tation of Dr. Dernburg, and continued up to May, 1916. Captain Lester said it was apparent that Hale made eff forts to keep his connections secret. The army intelligence service has no evidence. the witness declared, that Hale did work for the German after the United Sta.es entered the war.
 Hale in Berlin. 1 In May, 1916, Hale went to Berlin, said Captain Lester and "as soon as he became identified with the Hears: service in Berlin, he capitalized his former connections as minister pleni- potentiary to Mexico, his acquaintance with President Wilson, and he was looked on at Berlin as one of the strongest representatives America could have in Germany"
 Senator WolcOtt interrupted to ask whether Mir. Hearst knew of Hale's anti-American sentiments. pointing out that there was a great difference be- tween being pro German an1 posi- lively anti-American.
 Captain Lester replied:
 He must have if he read Hale's cables His dispa-c1es were edi- German officialdom. have read hundreds of passages in his dis patches belittling the cause of the allies"
 The Golden Book.
 The Golden Book" a huge, elabc- rately decorated volume. was pre- sented to the committee of senators to show Richard Wackerows a Ger man consul and his associates had used it as means of getting promi nent Americans on record as favor ing Germany. and determining who were still loyal to the German cause This book was carried from New York to San Francisco with stops in hundred or more communities UT to d month before the United States entered the war, Captain Lester said and persons who donated to a fund for German war orphans were per mitted Co place their signatures in the volume, which was to have been sem to the German empress.
 Let man be noble, helpful ana ? good" was the first inscription in tho book. It was signed by J. BernstOrf on August 3, 1916. Some donations were as much as SS.00O, and man! . signatures and Inscriptions were il German. The committee has not ye - decided whether to make public thu ; names of the persons who signed th, ? book.
 Hearst owned Paper. ? Investigation by the army intelii . gence bureau Captain Lester said l disclosed that William R. Hears b owned the Deutsche Journal, Ger { man language newspaper in New - York. which WIS discontinued wher - the United States entered the war { This newspaper had a private wir' connection with Albert's office in New - York, Captain Lester said. and Alber 8 Oslander. charged with having sen r German spies to England also wa! l connected with the paper r In September 1916. Captain Leste ?. said. Hearst undertook the publica - ton and distribution of a book writ ,- ten by Captain Koenis, commander O l the merchant submarine Deutschland