Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-11
Government Copies of TeIe-
grams Signed By Publisher
Said Ninety Per Cent Of
People Opposed War.
SAID ZIMMERMAN
NOTE WAS FORGERY
Said Gregory or BurIeSon
Were Corporation Agents
AppointeeS Of COL House,
Corporation Lobbyist"
ry soRsso .oupn.l srue,AL LEASED was,

feN MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED wIaHI
Washington, Dec. 10.-Copies of in
structions teegraphed by William II.
Hearst to the editors of his newspa-
pers and of other messages received
and sent by him at Palm Beach Fla,
early in 1917 just before the United
states entered the war were read to-
day into the record OF the senate COM
mittee investigating brewers and Ger
man propaganda. They were taken
from the files of the department Of
Justice and given to the committee
by A, Bruce Bielaski, chief of the
bureau Of Investigation,
Mr.. Hearsts messages directed that
editorials advocating embargo on
shipments of munitions and food to
the allies be prepared for his New
York papers: instructed that refer
endum peace vote" in the election
districts in each city where Hearst
organs We're printed be taken ana
that Windsor McCay prepare car
toon for the New York American
showing the United States ana Ger
many shaking their fists Mt each
other and a huge Japanese bending
forward awaiting to strike Uncle
Sam" in the back
Doubted Zimmerman Note.
Other of the kilograms related to
the famous Zimmerman note in
which Germany proposed an alliance
with Mexico and Japan and which
The Associated Press revealed to the
world. One message, signed Doc
tor" and sent from Palm Beach. said
the note probably was a forgery pre-
paved .hX- the attnrneH general lie
brighten congress into giving the pres
ident the powers he demanded and
perhaps also into passing the espiot-
age bill"
This telegram was dated March
and was sent after Van Hamm" at
New York had telegraphed Hearst
at Palm Beach copy 'of the instruc
tons as sent by DR., Alfred thinner
man, German foreign secretary, TO
German Minister Won Eckhardt in
Mexico through Won Bernstorff now
in possession Of the United States
government"
on March l. S. S. Carvalho of the
New York American, sent Mr.. Hearst
telegram saying that Senator
Swan (Swansou) of Virginia, an
nounced in senate this morning that
he was authorized by the president
to state that the Zimmerman note to
Mexico was teXtually correct, Lansing
made ame1announcemen from state
denartmenE" and asked: "Will YOU
outline such editorial as you want
printed"
Before the kilograms were read in
to the record the committee heard
DR., Albert Bushnell Hart of Harvard
University, whose name was contain
40, let Of f,aaTa to- nEIT1
found in the diary of DIR. Karl y.
Feuhr. a German propagandist. Or.
Hart who has two sons In the army.
entered an emphatic denial of pro-
German tendencies and declared he
was strongly anti-German before and
after the United States entered the
war
Messages from Eihu Root and
Charles W. Eliot, vouching for DR..
Harris loyalty, were received ny
Chairman Overman and placed in the
record.
The committee adjourned today UNI
til Friday, when German propaganda
will be further inquired into, 1t was
said.
Among the messages received and
sent by Hearst and others read into
The record today was one from tho
Vossische Zeitung of Berlin. sent via
Sayville. \. V. February 22. nineteen
DAYS after the United States severed
diplomatic relations, 1t was address
ed:
william r. Hearst The Breakers
Palm Beach, Fla" and said;
"Since rupture relations Reuters
Misrepresentation more than ever
uncontrollab'f. Kindly cable brier
statement precise situation opinions
leading American circles, Many
thanks beforehand
The Hearst message OF February "a
follows:
~ firmly believe that the vast ma
iority of the people Of the United
Statos are entirely rndesirous of war
with Germany. | believe also that the
people of Germany are equally unde-
srous of war with the United States.
Under such circumstances. ! cannot
see why the century -old friendship Of
the United States and Germany cam
not he nanta nod and perpetua'ed ~
the high minded and humanitaria n
rulers and political leaders of our
respective countries.
'.In America we have lust celebrated
the anniversary of Wash'ngton's birth
day and this should remind us that
he friendship of Germany and the
United States was inaueurated by
WASHINGTON and Frederick the Grent,
two of the ablest aud wisest. and most
far-seeing statesmen that any nations
have possessed in the history of the
world
NAV tho statesmen Of our resnect-
i've countries TO-DAY heed the advice
and follow the footsteps Of those two
great leaders of men and builders OF
nations,
The course of NY newspapers has
been fair to Germany not because l
ain prc-German any mora than I am
pro-ally am merely ALPHABETICALLY n
terested in the welfare Of my own
country and 'stlcally interested
in the progress of the world.
II am sure that the United states