New-York tribune., 1918-12-14

front. If they wanted a Japanese story,
at that time he would arrange with the
| government officials to sec the Jap
anese expert. who in this case was
Professor Stein.
"Mr. Fox's articles" continued Cap
tain Lester, "were also published in
the "Deutschcs Journal" the German
publication operated by Mr.. Hearst, or
the Hearst American papers in New
York City
"There is another article written by
Mr.. Fox and published in 'The New
York American on April 10, 1915, en-
titled "A Night on the Firing Line Be-
fore Ypres; A Thrilling Narrative by
Edward Lyell Fox"
This article is rather we'll written,
fanciful account of his Impressions
while on the firing line at the Western
front, and is entirely q matter OF Gre
alton.
Drew on Imagination,
Senator Overman-He admitted that
he was writing from his Imagination
articles that he was told to-purely i'm
aginative articles?
Captain Lester-Yes; most of them
were imagination; that is, this was an
article intended to be of that charac-
ter. This is not news article; it is
simply experiences.
SENATOR NELSON-I suppose the
gist Of this article is eXtolling the
powers of the German army?
CAPTAIN LESTER-All to the end
of establishing conclusively the cour
tesy of the German officers, the
wonderful discipline of and the care
taken Of the men, and the high state
of assumed efficiency and, Of course,
their individual character
"Mr. Fox was used by the German
government and by DR.. Albert and
Captain Lester said. "In 1916, upon
his return with a bundle of very i'm
portant documents which were given
him by the foreign Office to believer
here, he became Possessed Of certain Of
them, or copies of them. and took them
to the British Secret Service in this
country. He gives rather a hazy ac
count of why he took them to the
British. He told me that on one oc-
casion he had thrill of patriotism
and thought that he ought to show
up the Germans, but the British did
not warm up to him very much, really.
"They strung him along for a while
and got all the information they could
out Of him, and then, when he started
back in the fall of 1916 with a man by
the name of O'Brien, to go back into
Germany, something stopped Fox at Co.
penhagen. Il imagine that the British
had already seen the papers, and prob
ably had copies of them before they ar
rived in this country. 1t looks that
way, at least
Teuton Messages Read
GAS bearing on the article written by
Mr.. Fox on ATROCITIES on the Eastern
Front | want to read cable from the
German Embassy in New York to the
Foreign Office, dated April 90, 1915
(reading)
"'War Correspondent Edward Lyell
Fox asserts having filed with War Min
istry, Berlin, by request, report on Rus
sian atrocities East Prussia, and states
Major Herwarth and Censor Roediger
also informcd-true? 2"
In connection with the last trip Of
Fox and his stopping at Copenhagen
the Berlin Foreign Office apparently
sent an inquiry concerning O'Brien, for
this message goes back from the Ger
man Embassy to the Berlin Foreign
Office:
"Replying to wireless 422 (missing),
have only known O'Brien as close
friend of Fox, and therefore consider
him just as reliable as Fox"
Captain Lester stated that there was
no evidence that Fox had not been loyal
since we entered the war.
Golden Book Exposed
Another matter of which more may
be heard tomorrow was the use Of
what is known as the Golden book"
This is a most ornate volume eXpen-