Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-12-13
HUN PROPAGANDA
ACTIVITY EXPOSED
Senate Gets Report From Bureau
of Investigation.
MANY NOTABLES ARE NAMED
A. Bruce Bielaski, Chief of the Depart
ment. Tells Committee of his Probe
of o-German Activities in
This Country.

Washington, Dec. Tn telling his
story of German propaganda in Amer
lea, A. Bruce Bielaski, chief of the
bureau of investigation of the depart
ment of justice, laid before the senate
committee investigating brewery and
German propaganda cablegrams OK
changed in 1916 by Count Won Bern
storff, then ambassador here, and the
Berlin foreign office.
One of Bernstorff's messages urged
that special favor be shown William
Bayard Hale, an American about to
visit Berlin as a newspaper cOrrespon-
dent, because he was employed by the
Hearst organs, which the message
said, had Outspokenly placed them.
selves on the German side.
Bielaski told thee committee Hale
was on the Hearst pay roll for $500
u week, and also was employed at
$4,000 year by publicity organi-
Zation formed in this country by DR..
Bernard Dernburg, the German propa-
gandist.
washington FOSt involved.
Mr.. Bielaski told the committee that
in October, 1914, Bernstorff wrote a
letter addressed to Albert and Dern-
burg in which he said the Washing
ton Post was offered to him for 81
100000. This offer was made, he said,
with the understanding that the Post
owners would buy the paper back at
the end Of the war for $1,500,OO0
A communication from Fuehr to the
German foreign office, dated August
2, 1916, said the Post had been friend
ly to Germany up to that time, but
recently had shown indications of
Joining the enemy" The change
was attributed by Fuehr to the Rus
sian ambassador, and he said the pol
icy had changed since the death of the
late John r. Mclean. -..-
German Agent as Writer.
| Suggesting ON June 2, 1916, that the
time was faborable ito get Hearst to
send first-rate journalist to Berlin
Bernstorff told the foreign office that
the man selected was Hale, who, he
said, had been a confidential agent of
the embassy since the beginning of
| the war, and was bound as such by
contract to June %, 1918.
Hearst" the ambassadors message
said, sis not aware that Hale is our
| agent, but knows him only as Ger
| manOphile journalist, who has con-
tributed leading articles to papers"
NotabIes Are Named.
| The following were among the
| names given to the senate committee
as taken from the diary of German
| agent in the United States and labeled
important names."- "The list" said
| ly all who were actively pro-German
| prior to the entrance of the United
| States into the war and q few who
were active afterward. The list fol-
| lows:
Prof. William r. Shepard, Columbia
university; Prof Hugo Muensterburg,
Harvard university; Prof William M.
Sloane, Columbia university; DR.. Ed
mund Won Mach, Cambridge, Mass. F.;
DR.. Anth Won Briessen, New York (;
Prof. John w. Burgess, Newport, R.
| L; Prof. Eugene Smith, Columbia uni
versity; Prof. III. G. Sanborn Wander
| bilt university; Prof. J. G. Mcdonald,
| University of Indiana Prof. Ferdinand
| Schevill, University of Chicago; e.
| G. Richardson, Princeton university
| Prof. Kuno Francke, Harvard univer-
| sity; Prof. George B. Mcclellan,
| Princeton university; Prof. A. B.
| Faust, Cornell university; Prof Norris
| JaStrow, Jr., UniverSitl of Wiscon-
sin; DR.. Walter S. Mcneil, Richmond
DR.. David Starr Jordan, Berkeley,
CAL; Peter S. Grosscup, former Uni
ted States federal judge, Highland
Park, ILL.,; Richard Bertholdt, st.
Louis; Prof Albert Bushnell Hart,
Harvard university; DR.. G.. J. Hexa-
mer. Philadelphia; Charles Nagel, for.
mer secretary of commerce and labor,
ST. Louis Oswald Garrison Willard,
New York Evening Post; William Ran
dolph Hearst, New York American
Bernard Ridder, New York Stats lei
tung; Edward A. Rumely, New York
Evening Mail; Frederick A Schrader,
1897 Broadway, New York; Frank
Harris, 3 Washington square, New
York city; Rob. l. Ford. Freeman's
Journal, New York Rev. Father Thir-
ney, American Catholic Weekly, New
York; Max A. Helm, go Riverside
drive, New York; George Sylvester
Viereck. New York; Prof. William P.
! Trent. 1877 West Thirty-eighth street,
| New York