The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-27
VIERECK'S CODE TO
FATHER DECIPHERED
Fatherland Editor Sent Let
ters to Berlin Up to Last
December.
GIRL TYPIsT GIVES CLUES
Communications Forwarded
Through Friends in Neu-
trail Countries.

The secret code in which George Syl-
vester Viereck is alleged to have advised
his father. Louis Viereck, in Berlin, OF
conditions in this country was explained
yesterday by Alfred i. Becker. Deputy
State Attorney-Gener
viereck who in the FdtherIdnd vocif-
crously championed Germanys cause
against the Allies. subsidized when the
United States became n belligerent, so
far Is his public utterances were con-
cerned. Mr.. Becker charges that he did
ton he had established with Germany,
and that he sent letters through neutral
countries in German code to his father
as late as last November or December.
Mr. Becker bases his charges relating
10 the period following the entrance OF
the United States into the war on infor-
nation given to him by Niereck's stenog-
rapher. a Russian girl OF Jewish par
citage who is loyal to the United States.
She left Viereck's employment in De-
cember.
For the period before tho United
States became a belligerent MIR Becker
asserts he has documentary proof OF
his charge that Viereck was in code
communication with his father and
transmitted information to him relating
TO affairs in the United States under
the guise of discussion OF family mat
ters Mr.. Becker says that Niereck' 8
stenographer told him that Viereck con-
tinued to send similar letters abroad
until she left his employment
Mr.. Becker exhibited yesterday a
photostatic copy OF a letter which
Viereck Is alleged to have sent to his
father in 1916. The letter. written in
German. was on its face an innocent dis
cussion of family matters. 1t was In
tercepted and code experts OF the De-
partment Of Justice were put to work
upon 1t.
Experts Decipher Code.
The letter was in four pages. The code
experts are said to have discovered the
real purpose OF the letter by taking the
first word on each OF the four pages
and putting them in sequence. then the
second word on each page, and so on.
BY taking the first word from each
page the following sentence was con.
structed. Die lage list ausserordent.
lich." Translated this read. THE stua
ton is extraordinary" The letter, a,
decided. went on in this vein.
Mr.. Becker said that Viereck caused
his letters for Germany to be mani
| folded on flimsy paper. Several copIe.
of each were mailed TO different cor
respondents in Stockholm and Copen
hagen. Bach envelope contained a note
for the person addressed, instructine
him to mail the letter TO Louis Viericl
In Berlin.
viereck. under examination. denied
that ne wrote to his father in code. He
explained the sending OF copies OF tn,
I 60 - l,a
cause his father was travelling much o.
the time. and he wished to make sur,
| of reaching him by mail.
Mailed at Obscure station.
According to the stenograp her
| Viereck caused her to mail the letters
at out OF the way post office sub-sta
tons in The Bronx.
Louis Niereck lived In the Cnstet
States from 1895 to 1910. Prior to com
Ing here. he was Socialist leader anC
member OF the Reichstag George Syl
vester Niereck was born in Munich II
1854. He suspended the Fdthcrldnd wher
the United States entered the war ana
| Is now publishing Viereck's America,
| Weekly. from an office in Forty-secont
street near Third avenue He lives II
Mount Vernon.
The investigation OF Nierecks anairi
was begun by the Deputy Attorney-Gcn
eral IN connection with the purchase o.
the Erenin0 Mail by Or. Edward A
Rumely with money supplied by Vor
Bernstorrf and his paylnaster. DIR. Al
bert. Tran ctions Of the German Infor
nation Service, press bureau in III,
building at 1928 Broadway. in which
| Niereck had an office. were examined II
detail. Much testimony was given in re-
lation to the connection OF DR.. Willis IT
Bayard Hale with this bureau between
December, 1914. and December, 1915.
Thought Hale Had Influence.
II was testified that Hale. who hat
heen sent to Mexico by President Wilson
as a confidential investigator. was EN-
ployed by DR.. Bernhard Dernburg, unof.
fcial representative OF the Kaiser: DIR
Albert and other leading German prop.