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T0IE.VhDECANADA
Witness Tells Senators Of
kaisI'S Hopes.
WERE To SUE. Dominion
Syracuse Prof -: Describes "Wild
Hope" Of forr53r German Army
Men i'll I mis- Corntry.

Syracuse Prof -: Describes "WiId
Hope" Of forr53r German Army
Men il I his corntry.
WaShi, = on. April l1.-M"re than
half ii III. IL, II German arms rsServiSts
in the .'ni ell Sta IS. aided by Ameri-
cans. hn;,ed to seize Canada when the
war beg II.
This statement WAS made by DR..
Earl +. Sperry. professor of h SSOr!
in SErac"se University, before the
subcommittee of the senate .iudic airy
commit ee. which, IS considering Sen
afor X A"'S re<o.ut on to revoke The
charter Of The GerIlan-American Alli
ance.
The people of Germany. as well as
the German reSerriSts in the United
States. acSuplly held he wild hope
that former German army men in this
corntry would be able to invade Can
ada. he declared.
Sperry read 10. the subcommittee
extracts from Il book written in Ger
man by Karl Junger, called German
Amerika MobiliZed," published under
authority, and with the financial as
SiStance of the government in Ger
many, to inform the people there just
what German-Americans in the Unit
ed States were doing 10 aid the
''Fatherland."
An introduction 10 the book by
Vice Admiral Won Knorr. of the i'm
perial German navy, urged patriotic
endeavOr for the "F&therland" by
every. German-Amer:can.
Junger in his book declared that
he so 900 German reSe'v :StS in the
United States could easily cross the
Canadian line AM size Canada.
Many Americans. declared J"nger,
would be glad to ASST the former
German soldiers.
In this book. plans of Admiral Won
Spec. who was cruising in the Sonth
Pacific with a squadron of four shi@ s.
20 attack Vancouver. were boldly stat
ed The scheme was for Won Spec
Ia capture Vancouver and from that
city direct the army of German re-
serviSrS in the invasion of Canada.
Later RritiSh squadron pursued Won
Snee and sunk his ships off the Falk-
land Islands
Extracts from German magazines
and newspapers telling of the work Of
The Gprman-AmeriCa ar Alliance and
other German societies to SOlidify the
German people in the United States
and make them q "blOc" in the Amer
lean political and social affairs were
read TO the subcommittee by Spefry.
He declared that the German-Amer-
lean Alliance sent f. Frank Carson,
Philadelphia lawyer, to Washington
at the beginning of the war to show
Secretary of State Lansing that the
position of the state department on
the embargo was untenable. Carson
wanted to persuade Lansing that the.
United States should prohibit exports
of munitions t6 all the beiligerents.
The plan failed
Sperry described the National Ger
man-American Teachers association,
organized in 1870 to push the teach
ing of German language and kultur
in American public schools. The 1912
convention of this association was
hel din Berlin.
A letter from one of the teachers
who attended this Berlin convention,
read by Senator King, declared that
the association was subsidized by the
German government The expenses OF
The teachers who attended the Berlin
convention were paid by the German
government from New York to Berlin
and back to the United States. This
teacher declared that some Of these
who made the trip realized that the
trip was part of a scheme to influence
and spread German propaganda
throughout the United States. The
teachers were paid great attention by
high officials in Berlin.
DR.. C. J. Hexamer, former presf-
dent of the alliance, Sperry declared,
made several visits to Washington
from Philadelphia after the war be-
gan in an endeavor to present to the
president and the state department in
formation favorable TO Germany from
many angles. Hexamer urged the
state department to establish an EN-
barge on all shipments to the belli-
gerents in Europe. -.