The Sentinel=record., 1918-12-14

I whom have returned to Germany. HeI explained that for nilitarl reasons other names could not be disclosed.
 The srorp sent to America, as well as those sent elsewhere. had specific functions laid cut for it. One groupi ot the men was to deal with comment cial matters; another with political matters. and T third was to special, lZe in Japanese, Chinese and South American and Mexican relations.
 The delegation on arriving in this country established headquarters atl ll2 Broadway arrangement havingl been made in advance Captain Les. fer said, by George Sylvester Vierick. then publisher of a weekly known asI the Vaterland.
 Mathew B. Crausen. publicity man. aSer for the Hamburg American in. terests, the witness testified directed work of the German press bureau atl nrst but later was replaced by Hale,
 Great secrecy was maintained con cerning the maintenance of the head quarters Captain Lester said, pass. word, 'Burgmeister," being required Tor admittance 10 Dr. Albert's offices there, through part of the Hambure. | American line ticket offices
 This was the frequent meeting place or Von Bernstorff, Captain Boy ed, Captain yon Papen, Wolf von Igel and other German representatives, according 10 the witness, and direct wires were maintained with the Say vile wireless station which com municated with the radio tower atl Nauen, Germany.
 Great quantities of German news. papers, magazines and books were shipped into the United States for use of the propagandlsts and these also went to Mexico and other coun. tries.
 A Mexico City newspaper, La Petza. described by Captain Lester as "vio- lently proGerman," reproduced many of the articles which were distributed there, throush the German minister, Von Eckhart
 Captain Lester read into the rec ord a cablegram from Lord North ehffo to Arthur BrishrJy in pocer Der. 1916. two mon 1 1Si ag,o- +ha I,t national News Service cable priviles had been re,Foked urging Brisbane { come eilsngland.
 rdggest you come to England, ful aVfhority," read the cablegram. fOr gthe event given proper assurance on your part believe matter can te sat. isfactorily adjusted. Best wishes for l917."
 William Bayard Hale. said Captain Lester, became editor of the propa- ganda sheets issued by the German press bureau early in 1914, on solicita. ton of Dr. Dernburg. and continued up to May, 1916 Captain Lester said it was apparent that Hale made ef- 1 forts to keep hia connections secret | The army intelligence service has no tf tdIhttf Alit NAiitbo NtIAdAtut AuaA Hale did work for the German gov einmcnt after the United States CT. tered the war
 In May, 1916, Hale went to Berlin and. said Captain Lester, "as soon aa he became identified with the Hearst service in Berlin, he capitalized his former connections as minister pleni- to Mexico, his acquaint-l 1ncc with President Wilson. and hel was looked upon at Berlin as one of ihe strongest representatives Amer Ica could have in Germany
 Senator Wolcott interrupted to ask whether Mir. Hearst knew Of Hale's sentiments, pointing put that there was a great difierencel between being prolGerman and posi- lively anti-American
 Captain Lester replied:
 'fIIe must have, if he read Hale's tables His dispatches were editor al and laudatory Of Germany and ferman officialdom l have read lunQTeuS UT DunSdBt0 ih hiS NA' patches be-littling the cause og the lilies"
 The Golden Book, huge, elabor- Itely decorated volume, was resent d 60 tho committee of sen tors to how how Richard Wakerow q Ger nan consul, and his assistants, had lsed it as a means of getting promin- mt Americans on record as favorins Germany and to discover who were till loyal to the German cause.
 This book was carried from New fork to San Francisco, with stops in . hundred or more communities, up to month before the United States en- cred the war, Captain Lester said, md persons who donated to a fund or German war orphans wore per nitted to place their signatures in the 'olume. which was to have been sent o the German empress
 Let man he noble. helpful ana rood" was the first inscription in the look. It was signed by J. Bernstorn'