The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1918-12-06
HALE, HEARST and
OTHERS SHOWN TO
HAVE MIXED IN
HUN PROP PAGANDA
Startling Testimony Re-
lating To Germany's
Under Hand Deals
COULD NOT REACH
C0NGRESSMEN
Pominent Educators Of
County Smirched AS
Friends Of Kaiser
fRv AssocIatea Press, ,

(By Associated Press.)
| Washington, Dec. Elm telling his
story of German propaganda in
| America, A Bruce Bielaski, chief of
| the bureau OF investigation OF the
department Of justice, today laid be-
| fore the senate committee cable
grams exchanged in 1915 by Count
Won Bernstorff then ambassador
here, and the Berlin foreign Office.
y Hale Well Paid.
One of BernstorfEs messages urg-
ed that special favor be shown Will
liam Bayard Hale, an American
about to visit Berlin as a newspaper
correspondent, because he was en-
ployed by the Hearst organs. which
the message said, had outspokenly
placed themselves on the German
side.
Bielaski told the committee that
Hale was on the Hearst payroll for
$500 a week, and also was employ
ed at $50 a year by a publicity
organization formed in this country
by DIR. Bernard Dernburg, the Ger
man propagandist.
Dan1nind Testimony Against Hale
Suggesting on June 2. 1915, that
the time was favorable ITO get
Hearst to send a first rate journalist
to Berlin" BernstorH told the Ger
man foreign Office that the man Sc
Iected was Hale, who he said, had
bassy since the beginning OF the war
and was bound by contract to June
2, 1915.
sage said, 'is not aware that Hale is
our agent, but knows him only as a
Germanophile journalist who has
been contributing leading articles to
papers"
Paid to Visit Rumania
Halls, according to BielasISi. was
paid by the German government to
visit Rumania. and If possible, pre-
vent entrance OF that nation into
the war. Mr.. Hearst, Bielaski said,
was ignorant of Hale's employment
on the latter mission.
Following is the message of June
2 sent by Bernstorn through
Beunos Aires and Stockholm:
The Message, In Full.
+. TN conformity with your excel
lency's wish I suggest that the
present is a favorable time to get
Hearst to send a first rate Journalist
to Berlin. The man selected w. B.
Hale, has been, as your excellency
knows, since the beginning of the
war, a confidential agent OF the en-
bassy and as such has been bound
by contract till June %, 1918. In
making this arrangement the main
idea was that Hale would be the
most suitable man to start the re-
organization of the news service af-
ter the peace on the right lines.
II request full confidence may be
accorded to Hale who will bring with
him a letter Of recommendation from
me to DR.. Hammat. Hearst is not
aware that Hale is our agent, but
knows him only as a Gern1anophile
Journalist who has been contribut-
ing leading articles to papers"
From the diary of DR.. Karl A
Fuehr, German agent brought to
America by Won Bernstorff, was
produced a paper labeled important
list OF names" which, Mr.. Bielaskf
were actively pro-German prior to
our entrance in the war and a few
who were active afterwards"
The list follows:
List of Noted Pro- Germans.
prof. VIM. R. Sheperd. Colum-
bia university; Prof. Hugo Muen-
sterburg, Harvard university; Prof.
VIM. M. Sloans, Columbia univers-
ity; DR.. Edmund Won Mach, Cam
bridge, Mass; DR.. Auth Won Bris-
sen, New York; Prof. John w.
Burgess, Newport, r. L.: Prof.
Eugene Smith, Columbia university;
Prof. H. C. Sanborn, Vanderbilt uni
Prof. j. G.. Mcdonald Uni |
OF Indiana; Prof. Ferdinand
Schulz, University of Chicago; e. c.
princeton university;
Prof. Kuno Francke, Harvard uni |
varsity. Prof. Geo B. Mcdonnell !