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Show DR. WILLIAM BAYARD HALE, who actively aided aid-ed the German propaganda work in the United States. i ' 1 Dr. William Bayard Hale Author of Speech Which Caused Expulsion of Dr. Dernburg From U. S. WRITER ACTIVE IN PROPAGANDA WORK Specialty Was Trying1 to Involve U. S. in War With Mexico and Japan; Letters Let-ters Made Public. NEW YORK, July 2U. The speech of Dr. Bernhard Dernburg at Cleveland In May, 1915, in which he attempted to justify the sinking of the Lusitania and which caused his expulsion from the United States, was prepared by Dr. "William "Wil-liam Bayard Hale, according to a statement state-ment here tonight by Deputy State Attorney At-torney General Alfred Becker. A copy-reader for the information service, ser-vice, Mr. Becker declared, testified the address was "edited and re-edited" by Hale in New York and telegraphed to Dernburg the day it was delivered. Another revelation of the attorney general's gen-eral's inquiry into German propaganda activities before America's entrance into the war included testimony of Dr. Hale j that Dr. Edward A. Rutnely, arrested re- i cently in connection with the alleged Ger- man purchase of the New York Evening I iviail, was introduced to him in 191o as "the special protege" of Dr. Dernburg. The introduction, he said, was made by Dernburg. Code Letters Made Public. The attorney general's office made public code letters written to persons in Germany by George Sylvester Vlereck, editor of the former pro-German Fatherland, Father-land, now called Viereck's Weekly. The letters were intercepted before the American declaration of war. Since that time, according to Viereck's own admission, admis-sion, he has sent mail to Germany through neutral countries. This action, according to authorities, Is a violation of the trading with the enemy act. The Viereck code1 letters, some of which were dated In 1916, apparently were in- nocent communications on family and personal subjects, but, according to Mr. Becker, they contained information of political po-litical conditions in this country. How Messages Were Sent. Mr. Becker declined to say whether Viereck's letters since this country entered en-tered the war contained code messages. In the earlier communications, he said, 'one series was so written that the first word of each page when placed in order formed a sentence, the second word of each page the second sentence, and so on, to make up the messages. One letter, let-ter, written in Germany and dealing with the personal affairs of the correspondent, began, when read in code: "The situation situa-tion is extraordinary," and gave a description de-scription of American feeling toward Germany. Ger-many. As late as December, according to Mr. Becker, Viereck mailed letters to his father, fa-ther, using persons whom he addressed in Stockholm and Copenhagen to forward his messages. The elder Viereck, Louis, was described by the Fatherland as its correspondent cor-respondent in Berlin. Viereck declared today that his letters containtxi only personal per-sonal messages to his father. Ho admitted ad-mitted that be had burned the originals here. Names Linked in Testimony. Testimony of Dr. Hale and of the German Ger-man information news service copy-reader, copy-reader, whose name the authorities withheld with-held tonight, linked the names of Hale, Kumely and Viereck with Dernburg, Dr. Heinrich. Albert and other directors of Teuton propaganda at conferences in the Broadway building, which also hold the offices of the Fatherland, the German information in-formation service, Dernburg and Dr. Carl A. Kuehr. author of German propaganda works. Viereck was always there. Hale testified, and sometimes Rumeiy M-n present. Before the alleged purchase of the Mail, he said, there was talk of buying buy-ing another New York daily, a weekly or a monthly magazine. The German information service, according ac-cording to the copy-reader's testimony, ws personally supervised by Hale, though the latter alays insisted on (Ctoiitijjucd on Page Ten.) MORE LIGHT SHED OUT II! PRE-WAR PLANS (Continued from Page One.) secrecy regarding his activities. It was sent dallv to many American newspapers, and its general trend, the witness said, was "to cause alarm over the possibility of a Japanese invasion, and to urge the necessity of intervention in Mexico." There were subeditors and translaters, be stated, Including Dr. Carl Mecblen-burp;. Mecblen-burp;. one-time lecturer in the Universities Univer-sities of London and Dublin, who later fled to Mexico, and Professor Harowitz, now in an American internment camp. Proofs of the five-pasje "News Sheet," the copy-reader testified, were sent invariably in-variably to Matthew B. Claussen, publicity pub-licity agent of the Hamburg-American Line. The attorney general is in possession of correspondence between Vlerecli and Hugo Schmidt, former German financial aeent in the United States, showing that the editor purchased ln 1915 $12,000 worth of German war bonds, half of which he later sold. He told the officials that he owned three $100 Liberty bonds. |