The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-11-25
INQUIRY WILL
LAY BARE AID
TO GERMANY
Senate Committee Gets New
Viereck Letters to Berlin
Revealing Activities.
BREWER FUND SIDE ISSUE
Sweeping Investigation Now
Planned to Expose and Pun
ish' Propagandists.

All RECORDS or investigations into
German propaganda In the United
States since the outbreak OF the Eu-
ropean war are being assembled in
Washington for use by the Senate
committee that Is investigating brew
ers' activities, 1t was learned yester-
day. When the committee resumes It's
hearings December q. the inquiry into
brewers affairs will become merely a
phase Of an investigation that will be
a comprehensive inquiry into all tina.
has been said and done to help Ger
many In this country.
Men OF prominence, whose names
have been mentioned as German sym
pathizers, but who have not appeared
at any Of the inquiries, VIII be sum-
moned. Material for their examina-
ton lies in the documentary matter
now being assembled.
Chiefs OF the Government investi-
eating bureaus will testify. A. Bruce
Bielaski of the Bureau Of Investigation
Of the Department Of Justice. will be
a witness. Others to testify will be
Alfred L. Becker, Deputy State Attor-
ney-General, whose hearings with wit
nesses under oath developed proof OF
the expenditure of large sums OF
money here in the interests Of Ger
many; Gen. Marlborough Churchill
head OF the Army Intelligence Depart
ment, and Francis +. Garvan, chief OF
the Bureau of Investigation of the Of
fee OF the Alien Property Custodian.
viereck VIII Re Called.
A number of propagandists who
were particularly active in Germany S
behalf in the time Of Americas neu-
trality will be called upon to explain
what they did and why they did it.
Among them, It was said yesterday,
will be George Sylvester viereok, who
founded the FdtherIand the week fol-
lowing the outbreak of the European
war and changed the name of the pa
per to Vtcreck's American Weekly
when the United States became n bel
ligerent.
Mr.. Becker investigated viereck.
The investigation has not yet ended.
Among the recent developments were
the finding of a new series OF letters
which Viereck sent to Dear Papa"
and Dear Mamma" at Berlin by way
Of Sweden. The letters. which gave
information relating to conditions in
the United States IN TO the time the
country declared war, were Intended
for official eyes rather than those to
whom they were addressed. It is
charged. and certain paragraphs, which
on their face deal with money matters,
are fixed upon as in code.
AS an example OF what Is alleged TO
be code, the following from a letter
written in German by Viereck. April
IS, 1916. TO his father, Louis Viereck,
was given: How are things going on
with our new agreement concerning
the family funds? You ought to sign
this as soon as possible. You ought,
also, as I wrote. you in an earlier let
ter, to make a will Just as I have
done. Within a few days l shall send
you a new financial statement OF
mine"
Sees Hope IN Congress.
In the same letter viereck wrote :
Enclosed is a letter which R!dder and
/ have sent in common TO the German
American newspaper publishers. We
are struggling here under high pres
sure, il is hoped not In vain. 1t looks
as though the President is bent on
bringing a break with the Central
Powers. Perhaps Congress will rap
the schoolmaster on the fingers"
Viereck altered his attitude when
the President accepted the German
assurance that unrestricted submarine
warfare had been abandoned. and on
June 2, 1915. expressed himself as fol-
lows: "As regards Wilson, have lust
written an article of which a copy is
enclosed in which handle him in a
much more friendly manner than
heretofore, since he really shows a
wish to preserve peace. 1t Is quite
true that he does this out of selfish
motives, but this is also the only
ground on which l believe he really
does his best
To this letter was the foIIowtns
postscript. ''Dr. William Bayard
Hale Is sailing to-day on the Frederick
VIII. for Germany. He is the repre-
/ btilIdtl|c Oi IlcdTSt ara Is one OF OuI
good friends with whom we have had
many social hours and who is also OF
great use to us politically. Hearst Is
! pc: maps the most prominent American
pub!icisr who has aligned himself or
the side o: Germany He (Hale) tele.
phored me this morning, but could moi
reach me. have sent Hale a tele.
gram to look you up. II possible. He
understands some German. His wife
was born Muschenheim. He is the
same Or. Hale who once had the ia.
nous interview with the Kaiser. He IL
further the one time biographer OF
Wilson, whom he now attack:
sharply"
Sends Advice to His Mother,
viereck wrote to his mother Marcel
13, 1917, three weeks before tn,
United States went to war, that tn,
situation was serious. He advised hei
In case of trouble to communicate with
DR.. K1r, Fuehr and DR.. Heinrich r
Alber., both OF whom had been Ger,
man paymasters under Won Bernstorf
in this country. Both like me anC
are under obligations to me-" he wrote
Explaining conditions here Vierecl
0ontt~Ssd on Thtrd Po0s.