New-York tribune., 1918-12-10
Heursts War Policy Termed
Questionable by Bielaski
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| tanned
From the Chase National Bank,
about $2,500,000.
From the Bankers Trust Company,
$250,00O.
From the Guaranty Trust Com
pany, $450,O00.
From G. Amssinck & Co.. $30o,OO0
From the Equitable Trust Com
pany, $1,700,00o
From the Mechanics and Meals
National Bank, $i,4Uo, 900.
From Kuhn, Loeb g. Co. 100000.
Total funds produced through
| bank loans and bank credits, 81,
050,OO0
Remittances from Reichsbauk,
Department Of Interior, War Depart
men. and Central Purchasing Agency
of Berlin, approximately $7,000,0O0
Funds procured through loans with
the German banks, proceeds of which
were made available in New York,
$780, 900.
In addition, DR.. Albert's office re-
| ceived of embassy funds, through Hugo
Schweitzer, about $3.50, 900 to 5000 600. .
| Under date Of June 21, 1918. one ac-
count, which was given code name
IN their books and had to do with
press propaganda, shows the sum of
! $7S6,000 had been expended at that
time. June 81, 1915.
Among the letters from Won Bern
storff's files submitted by Mr.. Bielaski
were several containing instructions
sent from Berlin to German consuls in
the United States to induce all Ger
man subjects to quit plants producing
ammunition and other war supplies for
the Entente.
In this scheme, Bielaski's evidence
showed, the German government in
upder which it sought to extend its au-
thority to Germans in America, and
ordered all consuls to report to the
German Consulate General in New
York
To make it possible for the German
employees OF war plants to leave their
work the Hans Lebeau Relief Bureau
was established in New York. This
bureau operated as a philanthropic or
ganlzatlon, but evidence obtained by
the government, Bielaski stated, showed
the German and Austrian governments
SUBSIDIZED it and that Lebeau himself
received SIS a week
Bureau Became Active"
The bureau established branches in
several cities, obtained lists of German
munitions workers and launched a sys-
tematlc campaign to get them to leave
their posts Other work was found by
the bureau for some of those who
needed its appeal. A report submitted
My Lebeau to the German Embassy in
February, 1916, showed that the bureau
found work for 4,456 workmen.
In addition to the foregoing activ-
tiles, the bureau also made a list of
all Germans and Austrlans who had un-
dergone military training
Among the names of men who fur
nished Bernstorff with lists of German
war plant employees mentioned by Mr..
Bielaski was that Of DR.. Theodore Otto,
OF Allentown, Penn. Mr.. Bielask pro-
duced telegram from the doctor to
the embassy in which he reported on
contracts received by Allentown muni-
tions plants.
Naptaln Won Papen, military attache
of the German Embassy, Mr. Bielaski
SAID, sent word in 1915 to the German
Consul in St. Louis, informing him
that two agents of the Brotherhood of
Metal Workers in New York, Samuel
Scollard and j. E. Hill, had launched
a movement to cripple the movement
of munitions for the Entente. Scol-
lard was afterwards among those in
dlcted in the l. W. w. case in Chi
cago.
Work Among Negroes Told
The activity of German agents in
this country seeking to create pro-Ger-
man feeling among the negroes of the
South was also narrated by Mr.. Bic
laski. The Germans circulated stories
among the negroes that they were de-
scendants of the Indians. and we're,
therefore, the rightful owners of
America instead of the white people.
"The negroes didn't take to these
stories, however" Mr. Bielaski said,
"as they were too loyal. Money spent
IN the South for propaganda was
thrown away"
. The activities of Labor's National
feace Council, which conducted
peace propaganda and an agitation that
shipments of munitions be stopped.
were also described by Mr.. Bielaski.
The agitation failed, he said, largely
because Samuel Gompers, president of
the American Federation of Labor.
took strong stand against it.
Documents read by Mr.. Bielaski
tended to indicate that Carl @. Bert
ling, to whom he referred previously
as having been at the head of German
propaganda in South American coun-
tries. received $3.50 month from Won
Bernstorff.
When asked by Senator Nelson
whether Won Rintelen had any connec-
tlon with the financing of Victoriano
Huerta, late dictator of Mexico, Mr.
Bielaski said:
eve have evidence to indicate that
von Rintelen probably helped to
finance Huerta, but it cannot be
proved"
Mentions "Staats-Zeitung"
Mr. Bielaski mentioned the New
York "StaatsZeitung" in connection
with the financing of propaganda on
which Mr.. Ridder paid out $495. Ac-
counting for this, Mr. Ridder wrote
Captain Won Papen on June 21.. 1915:
"The party that | sent out West
has enlisted the services of some rich
Chicago friends, and will continue
the propaganda which we have start
ed. They are sending out several
men in the Far West for the pur-
pose of combining strength for the
man they are interested in. We have
nothing to do with that matter,
financially or otherwise. | advanced
him 5000, which he has used for the
purpose as outlined to you. We
have, furthermore, spent $295 in
greater New York among the labor
element, and in sending the man to
Boston on Friday. This campaign is
now finished, so far as we are con-
cerned, and, personally, believe the
money used for it has been particu-
larly we'll spent. The Stats Zeitung'
advanced this S495, as explained by
me to you.
"The fund Of $4,000 which has been
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