The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-10
PAL MER'S REPORT SHOWS SEIZURE OF S7OO, ,OOO,O 900 IN ALIEN PROPERTY

Togu, Africa. and China and Dutch East Indies and also the Pacific Isl 1 ands had been sprinkied with the Te1efunken ship-to-shore stations.
 An American appearance had been given to Telefunken in America by the organization of the Atlantic Communication Go. and the naming of g. directorate of American citizens. The technical work, however, and the disbursement of moneys were in the hands of German agents. Telefun- ken engineers came over to install the plant and operate 1t.
 Despite the immediate cutting of the German cables and despite Great Britain's vast preponderance on the sea, Germany was able. while a ship fioated, to keep in t5uch with 1t, and was able to begin at once the effort to influence American opinion"
 The report goes on to point out the control by Leipzig of the American fur houses Today the American fur market is entirely in American hands and is unlikely to revert to Germany.
 The American fur market was un- der the domination of Leipzig even in the case of American caught furs- These were sent to Leipzig for dress ing and dyeing, then to London, to the sales, then sold back to Leipzig, and finally, with all these costs and charges added, were sold to the American trade plus a. profit and the duty"
 After listing the names of scores of manufacturing concerns seized, tho report continues:
 Tn many of the large German owned companies taken over by the Alien Property Custodian, after in vestigatton it was found that ea =, onage was one of the chief functions. Every scrap of information of com 1nercial or military value to Germany was carefully gathered by the repre- sentatives of these concerns in this country and quickly forwarded to the home office in Germany. The German agents were particularly keen on gathering information that would be helpful to Gernany's commercial war fare.
 'tOnce in Germany, this information was carefully card-indexed for the use of the German manufacturers. Bulletins of commercial information
 were also prepared and placed at the disposal of the German manufac- turer. In Germany, the collection of all commercial information Ls under bureau which is controlled and financed by the great German banks such as the Dresdner, Disconto, and Reichsba nl1.
 When in 1916 the relations between tthe United States and Germany be- came strained and the war clouds be- gan to gather, the managers of the German owned concerns in this coun- try became panic-stricken. The ca bles and the wireless stations we1s crowded with messages to and from the German owners and their man agers in this country, sche1ning and 1 plotting to arrange their affairs in this country.
 l Among other substantial German interests taken over by the Govern rnent were the jewelry, toy, piano, optical and photographic, hthographic, hardware and surgical supplies lines. ! The report goes on:
 l After a painstaking vestigation I concluded that the New York Eve ming Mail was purchased with money supplied by the German Government, and it's capital stock was in fact en- eny-owned, although Dr. Edward 1 Rumely was the record holder there l of. I have not yet made demari for this stock to ee delivered to the iAlien Property Custodian because of
 the financial condition of the com pany It is heavily burdened with debt and operated at loss, so that was unwilling to assume the re sponsibility which might follow from the position of a stockholder. Be sides, the large interests of the Amer ican creditors of the company might be very seriously jeoPardized by the
 seizure and public sale of the enemy
 owned stock of the corporation. Sug igestions have been made to me for
 the satisfaction of the enemy interest iu the rOmDaDy bv private sale to American interests but up to the present I have been unwilling to rec omnend to the President that a pIi-
 vate sale of the property should be made