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Show Witness Tells of Publisher's Publish-er's Scheme for Dis-i Dis-i tributing Propaganda. WRITER IN BERLIN German Embassy Cabled Berlin "Chicago Tribune Tri-bune Friendly Paper." WASHINGTON, Dec. 13. The German Ger-man government on July 10, 191-1, In-; In-; formed about 130 German civilian employes em-ployes at a conference In Berlin that n world war would bo started soon. Captain G. B. Lester of the army In- telllgenco service testified today before be-fore the senate committee Investigating Investigat-ing German and brewers' propaganda. These employes then were -dispatch cd to all parts of the world, thirty-one coming to the United States to stimulate stim-ulate Pan -German propaganda. Cap tain Lester declared. He said his Information In-formation came from an unnamed Informant In-formant now interned in this country. Tho German propagandists landed In the United States in August, 191-1. on the same boat with Dr. PI. F. Albert, Al-bert, known as the paymaster of the enemy propaganda system In this j country and Immediately formed the nucleus for German propaganda. Fox, Captain Lester testified, was sent to Germany in 1915 by the Ger- i man embassy ostensibly as a corres- j pondent of the Wildman Newspaper) and Magazine Syndicate and also was! employed by the Correspondents Film company which the witness said was financed by the German government. The managers of the Wildman syndicate syndi-cate did not know of Fox's connection with the Gorman embassy, so far as!1 Captain Lester knew. I Captain Lester explained that operations oper-ations In Europe of the Hearst service to which he referred were stopped by I the British government In October. J915. He added that he thought, the . 'i day service of this organization had ft never been resumed. i Captain Lester said he had read , minx, 17- i 1 r. nrfUlAn ntlltAH t "I VL 111 1 1LIC2H 111 VTt:i - i many and all were "sheer propagan-'j propagan-'j da." Replying to a question by Sena- tor King of Utah whether there was any evidence that the newspapers for which Fox wrote know of his connection connec-tion with tho German government, Captain Lester said ho had no such Information. i "I obtained from Fox his original notes written in lead pencil on the Cossack story," Captain Lester said, "and ho admitted he never saw any of the atrocities referred to and that to his knowledge none of th.em ever was committed. Fox was given courtesies cour-tesies from German officers that no other correspondent was able to obtain. ob-tain. Captain Lester said that as a result of a request by President Wilson at a personal interview with William Randolph Hearst, changes were made In the film play "Patria," produced aerially in the United States early in 1917 picturing Japan and Mexico in an alliance against the United States. Tho witness cited this film as ono bearing earmarks of Grman propaganda. propagan-da. WASHINGTON, Dec. 13. Testimony Testi-mony that Edward Lyelle Fox. a writer was sent to Germany in 1915 by tho German ombnssy to write German propaganda pro-paganda which, "was distributed by the Hearst International News Service, was presented today to the senate committee Investigating brewers and enemy propaganda, by Captain G. B. i Lester of tho army Intelligence ser- vice. ' .'i In response to questions Captain Lester said there Is nothttng in the. army Intelligence records showing whether either Mr. Hearst or managers manag-ers of tho International News Service knew that FoxMvats In the pay of tho German government. The witness read a telegram sent from tho German ombassy in Washington Wash-ington to the German foreign office September 9, 1914, saying: "Chicago Tribune friendly paper." Captain Lester said that Fox confessed con-fessed to him while In Germany no i had an understanding that he would write anything he was told to write by the German publicity bureau at Berlin. The witness said' he obtained from Fox an admission thnt an article appearing ap-pearing in tho New York American "on September 18, 1916, dealing with alleged atrocities by Russian Cossacks vvns written by him under Instructions from German officers as a means of offsetting the stories of German atro- - cities in Belgium that had begun to ', come out about that time. |