The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-12-20
Present German Government
Alleged to Be Back of the
Brinckmann Activities
from The Hague:
MORE REVELATIONS
OF GERMAN PLOTTING
New York's Attorney General
in Sensational Expose Be-
fore Senate Investigating
Committee.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.-Ge-man
propaganda aimed at the Un1'ed S'S'eS
and conducted By Professor S1inGA-
mann, at The Hague, still is At "o1A'
tho state department was informed 70
day In a dispatch from The Netherlands
capital.
The report to the state department
said Professor Brinckoann Is being No-
orally supplied with money and tnAs
vicious anrt-Amertcan document Is DC
ing circulated by the Brinckuann on-
reau- The money to pay tho expenses
Of the propaganda office Is being ex-
oended through German official chan
nails. according to the departments
statement.
Officials hero assumed that the IN
formation Was sent from The Hague TO
explain the spreading Of reports tha1
The United States and the allies are not
In agreement over certain issues TO Do
dealt with at the peace conference.
WASHINGTON. Dec. lo.--Machipcry
Sc, up by the G:rtEan government III
iscrlin and throughout the world 10
>,r"ad Gcrm;,nic ideas and the mcthoos
II financing Il in the United States were
eating cornmtitce by Alfred J. BECKER.
deputy attorney general OF New EoTk
The witness also told Of his lnEHStl-
cation for tht. French government of the
succcSs OF If0lu i'>lSha, executed as Il
French traitor. in getting $l.bH3.UVO OIL
German money IL this country Tor pur-
has. Of the l'tris Journal. but added
,ha, since apparently the l'aris Journal
did not change its attitude OF loyalty
toward Franco, the transaction was 4
pure swinGle" OF the German govern
ricat.
Mr.. Becker read documents gathered
uartly by the EritISh Secret service,
showing that the German foreign uffice
and other government departments at
E.rlin maintained elaborate systems
both before and after the European war
began to influence Thought all over the
world, working mainly through branches
Of German banks and commercial
houses co-9perated in vast cohesive
organization to promote friendly rela-
,ions toward Germany.
Worked Under Cover.
Journalists. -c~ttcEe professors. bank
crs 'Asiness n"n and commercial coun-
.,ular &achcS-rnary OF them being Gil +
rzcncf fac country IN which they work
rd-wsreN employed. Mr.. Becker. said.
Usually the propaganda was !nSidiouS'
with all attc::ipt 70 conceal its real na-
,urc or purpose.
! As early as 1909. said Mr.. Becker.
George Won Skal. 4 former German re-
serve officer and later auditor OF &C
counts OF New York city. was told on
:, visit To BerliH by 4 representative OF
the foreign offices nrcsS bureau that ne
would be valuabis in cas-" OF Il future
war to keep in touch with the press IN
In. United states. There was n" eFi-
dcncc. however that he acted III this
ra2acitv after the United States enter
cd the war.
The German government in May. l"it
three mouths before the war opened
;rtcd in va!n To buy thu Ottoman Tcic-
graphic News Ag"ary. with hfadIuar-
terS IN Ea-dad. Th- publication %
German edition OF Current Literature
a magazine Of which George sylvester
Eiereck in IN" United States and his
father Louis Nicr"ck in Berlin. were
promoters, was mentioned by the Wit
ness together with III" Germanic MUS
,r:tn 4, ltarvar'i a,d the movements 10
exchange professors with American uni
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