The Sentinel=record., 1918-12-20
OPERATIONS Or eoLO pASHA WHO GOT OVER A MILLION GERMAN MONEY. IS
 TOLD SENATE.
BOL0 BUNkOED GERMANS
 OUT OF THE MONEY
Germany Began 10 Lay Her Wires as Far Back as 1909 to Spread propa. 1anda tn This country-Had News Agencies Subsidized in All Parts o' World

Washington, Dec lg.-Prcmganda machinery set up bg- the German aoy- einment in Berlin and throughout the world 10 spread Germauic ideas and the methods Of financing this in tue United States, were described today to the senate Investigating commit tee by Alfred Be, her, deputy attor- hey general of New York.
 The witness also told of his inyes- tlgation for the French government or the success Of Bolo Fasha. eAecut- ed as a French traitor, in getting SI.- bS5,000 of German money in this coun- try for purchase of the Paris Jour naie but added that since apparent y tho Paris Jomnale did not change It's attitude of loyalty toward France, the transaction was d pure swindle" of the German government
 MT. Becker read documents gather ed partly by the British secret ser vice, showing that the German folet2n office and other government depart ments at Berlin maintained elabor- ate systems, both before and after the European war began to influence thought all over the world, working mainly through the press.
 AIrnufhes lor German Banks and commercial houses co-operateI tC promote friendly relations tuwaro Germany Journalists, college pro fessors, bankeis, business men ana commercial consular attaches. many of them bein1 citizens of the country In which they worked-wero employ ed, Mr. Becker said Usually the propaglnda Was insidious mlth an att tempt to conceal it's real nature. or purpose
 AS early as 1909, said Nlr. Becker. George Non Skal, @ former German reserve officer and later auditor oi New York City was told on a visit to Berlin by a representative of the lor- eign otficc's press bureau, that he would be valuable in case of a future War to keep in touch with the press in the Ulited States There was no e'tdence, however that he acted lu this capacity after the United States entered inc war, the witness said
 The German government in May l9lA three months before the war opened, tried in vain 10 buy the Ot- toman telegraphic news agency. with Headquarters in Bagoad, to spread German propaeanda The publication Of German edition of Current Liter ature, a magazine. of which George Sylvester Niereck, in the niled, aIo his father Louis NiereCB, In Bermu were promoters. was mentioned D. the witness, together with the Ger manic museum at Harvard and 'hl movements to HNcnutge proICss1rs with Am2rican universities as Ger. man propaganda moves
 One example of enemy propaganaa, said Mir. Becker, constted of tho sys- tematic effort late in 1917 to spread throughout the world. the idea that Germauy was ol the ycIce of internal revolt and that the kaiser would soon be oyeFthvown.
 I 1ha fact that the Gissemnltion c, these reports was encouraged by the chief German government censor, was convincing evidence that the efforts were propaganda intended to paraiize the prosecution of the war, in Mr Beckers opinion He said these re- ports had been sent ont of Germany bg' George T. Odell, correspondent Of the New York Evening Mail, after the United States had entered the var and were circulated widely by the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate. des- cribed as a subsidiary of the Man.
 Senator Reed, who is not a mem Der of the cotlmittee. in.errIrted 10 ask whether similar articles had been published by other newspapers then and even down to the present and that developments had not borne them out.
 MT. Becker, said this was true, but insisted the reports were inspired p the German foreign office late in l917.
 Mir Becker said the trans-Ocean News agency maintained a wireless service intended to influence mainly South American peoples. while the German South American institute, and the German News service for Porlu. gal and Spain. subsidized by the Ger man government, had similar funo- tons
 hir Becker told the committee that enemy propaganda in the United wae disclosed incidentally during his in- yestieation of the activities of Bolo pasha in promoting the financing of the Paris Joumale and in what was described as m attempt Co form q news ultiance hetwppn the Iournale