New-York tribune., 1919-01-19
The Whole Stor, of the German Game of Pryins Spy
Ing, Bombing and Propaganda, Condensed From
the Belaslxi Revelations

ally hated the country they we're unwit-
tingly aiding. Hero are the banks with
which the Reptile dealt, all being in New
York unless otherwise noted: The Chase
National, the Mechanics and Metals Nation
al the Equitable Trust, the Guaranty
Trust, Kuhn Loeb e. Co., the German Amer
lean Bank, the Lawyers Title and Trust
Company, the United States Mortgage and
Trust Company, the Fulton Trust Company
Speycr & Co., G. Amsinck e. Co., Chandler
& Co., the Merchants Loan and Trust Com
pany of Chicago; the Continental and Cor4-
mercal National Bank, of Chicago; the First
National, of Cleveland; the Wisconsin Ma
tional Bank, of Milwaukee; the ST. Louis
Union Bank, of st. Louis; the Mississippi
Trust Company, Of st. Louis, and the First
National Bank, of Boston,
Ambassador Count Johann Won Bern
storff, sent here under diplomatic privileges
and immunities as an honored guest of our
government was the head of the Reptile in
America Under him, in supreme charge of
the propaganda, were, first, Dr. Richard
Dernburg, and, after he had failed and skunk
home, Dr.. Heinrich T. Albert. With them
worked Franz Won Papen and Karl Boy-Ed
also diplomats" and more interested in
other German activities than this. Other
chiefs of the propaganda were Dr.. x. A.
Fuehr, brought from Japan for the purpose
and Franz Won Rintelin, sent later from
Germany.
With the propaganda bureau worked also
all The consular and other representatives
nNny in America and elsewhere and
Of thirty lone propagandist experts
aeNe rom Germany as soon as the war
started and long trained for this very pur-
pose. In addition there was hired a body
Of workers and agents which has never been
estimated, but which ran above fftv in one
particular offce-the Chicago branch Office
OF the Llebau Relief Bureau, rather minor
affalr-of which the records have been
seized. And finally there was what may be
called the privates of the organization, the
volunteer workers enrolled wherever there
was a German agent. There were more
than 300 of these in Cincinnati; Boston had
thousand or twelve hundred. Here is the
description given by Captain George B Les
ter, of the Military Intelligence Division,
Of these volunteers:
THAT list not only included proparanda
workers, but men who had volunteered to
stay in this country to work in munitions
plants, to stay in this country and get in
formation Of a military character and form
part of the silent army that Germany kept
over here, of which there were two or three
hundred thousand working right with them
all the time"
This was the machinery that sprany full
sized into activity in America almost on
the day that Germany launched her world
war. 1t was 10 sudden creation 1t had
been planned and prepared and trained as
Germany had prepared and trained her mil
ltary forces. It's strategy and tactics had
been carefully thought out and drilled into
It's officers and men. A foundation for its
work had been laid through long Years
even in America.
"Slncc 1894" Captain Lester testified,
the pan German propaganda has been svs
tematically distributed from Germany over
all the United States, South America, China
Japan n-evcry country" In America. besides
placing men Of the type of Hugo Minister
berg, the Harvard professor, and promoting
such things as the German museum at Har-
ward and the Bismarck celebration at Ann
Arbor, Mlch work was done through tho
German American Alliance and the state
and local organizations of hyphcnatcs asso-
ciatcd with it.