Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-12-07
HALE HAD A CONTRACT
WITH GERMAN EMBASSY
Such Is Testimony Offered by United
States Secret Service Dircc-
tor at Inquiry.
LARGE LIST is DISCLOSED
Many Lcading Educators and Citi-
IONS Were Named By Won Bern
storff AS Favorable to tho German
Cause, Says y. Bruce BieInSki.

r. M,AsHINGToN. December e,--rcs,i-
IN tarious parts of the United States
Tor the spread of German propaganda,
~ Bruce Bielaski. chief of tho Bureau
| Justice, to-day took the witness stand
nctore the Senate committee invcsti-
s sandag brewery and German .propa::
ny Count Won Bernstorff, then amhns-
sauor. and the Berlin Foreign Office
were detailed.
one OF Bernstorff's messages urged
Inat special favor be shown William
hayard Hale, an American about 10
| WISH berlin as n newspaper correspond
Sn'. because he was expressed by the
hearst papers. which. the message said,
! could be depended upon to favor Ger
Hearst" the ambassadors message
said. lis not aware that Hale is our
agent. but knows him only as Ger
manophiie journalist, who has contri-
huted the leading articles to- papers.
Btclaski told the commission that
LA. .iaie was ON the Hearst pay roll for
at $4,000 a year by n publicity or.
ganization formed in this country by
DR. DR.; Bernard DernberE. the German
Hale. accordin gto Mr. Bielaskl. was
paid by the German government to
visit Roumania, and, if possible. pre-
Hale. according to Mr. B!claski. was
ignorant OF Halcs employment on the
iatef mission
TELLS or HALE CONTRACT
WITH GERMAN EMBASSY
Suggesting on June .. 1916. that the
time was favorable ito get Hearst to
send 4 tirst-ratc Journalist to Berlin"
bernstorff told the Foreign Office that
the man selected was Hale. who he
said: had been confidential agent
OF OF the embassy since the beginning of
the war, and was bound as such by
The man selected, w. r. Hale has
been, as Your Exceilency knows. since
the beginning of the war :; confidential
agent OF the embassy, and rs such has
heen bound by contract till June %
1913. In making this arrangement the
main idea was tina. Hale would be the
most suitable man to start the reor-
ganization OF the news service after
peace on the right lines
II request full confidence may be
accorded 10 Hale. who will bring with
him letter OF recommendation from
me to DR.. Hannah. Hearst is not
aware that Hale is our agent. but
knows, him only as GcrmanophiIe
journalist, who has contributed leading
articles to newspapers"
says: tIalc tells me. and Hearst con-
firms, that the latter is rather hurt
that on Wicgand's account the World
gets all the important Berlin inter
views. / recommend that under suit
able circumstances Hale should, for
obvious reasons. be given preference.
as Hearst organs have during the
selves outspokenly on our side"
LIST DISCLOsES MANY
From the diary OF DR.. Karl y. Fuehr.
German agent brought to America
by Won Bernstorff. was produced =
names" which Mr.. Eielaski said. con-
iains practically all who were ac-
lively pro-German prior to our en-
trance in the war and Il few who were
active aftcrward."
fn1J
r. shepherd, Columbia University: Pro-
University; rrofessor WSiil,iam N.
sloane. Columbia University; Dr. Ed
mund Won Mach. Cambridge. Mass: DR..
Auth Won Briesen. New York; Pro-
fessor John W. Burgess. Newport, Il. l.:
versity; Professor II. C. Sanborn. Van
derbiit University; Professor ]. q. Nc
Donald, University of Indiana; Pro-
Chicago: l.. G. Richardson, Princeton
University: Professor kuno Francke.
naryaTd University; Professor George
Professor a. f. Frost. Cornell Uni
versity; Professor Morris Jastrow. Jr.
University Of wisconsin; DR.. Walter S.
jordan. berkeley, Cal; Peter S. Gross
cup. United States Federal Judge,
Highland Park. H.; Richard Bartholdt.
TART. Harvard University: DIR. Z. J.
lleXamer. PhiladcIphia: Charles Nagel,
st. Louis; Oswald Garrison Willard. New
York Evening Post: William Randolph
liearst. New York American; Bernard
Ridder, New York Stats Zeitung; Ed
ward y. Rumely. New York Evening
Mail Frederick y. Schrader, New
York; Frank Harris New York; Robert
l. Ford. Frcemans journal. New York;
Rev. Father Thirney. American Catholic
Weekly. New York; Max A. Helm. New
York: George S. Vicreck, New York.
Besides this list. Mr.. Bielaski also
thirty names OF others to whom he said
German propaganda matter was mailed
but who were not believed to be friend
sion decided, to withhold from the rec
ord.