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Show HE LIGHT THROWN Oil ! HEARST ! Affidavit Contains Allegation Alle-gation His Papers and j Mail Only Ones to Be Bought in New York' - : .- l en" By Associated Prass. WASHINGTON, Dec. !?0. When Alfred L. Broker.' deputy attorney general of New York, resumed hii testimony today on German propaganda before the senate committee, he told how the German government was 1 "grHvely disappointed" In Its hopes of financing Its profaganda through , Kulin, I-oeb at Co. of New York, tier- man officials. he declared, believe! j that the standing of the firm of M. M , Warburg A t o. of Hamburg. Germany, i would give them an Influence with; Kuhn, lxeb et Co. through otto H. Kahn. one of Ita officers, but the bank j imposed such difficult conditions that they had to go elsewhere for financial arrangements. ' When an affidavit by an unidenti- j fied person, recounting: a convet-sa-, tlon alleged to have occurred In 1914 between fount von Bernstorff and : Wi-llam F. MrCombs. formerly chair- ' man of the le.mocratle national coin-f mi t tee. and the unidentified person, j was offered by Mr. Becker. Senator! .Reed objected on the ground that tt I mentioned persons not preKent during the conversation, and therefore ma not competent evidence. I PAPERS FOR SALE. I Before Mr. Iecker was topped by the objection he had told Uie committee commit-tee that tne affidavit waa made in connection with the New York Investigation Inves-tigation of the Bolo Pasha Incident and was made about a year ago by a person per-son who asked that his name be withheld from publication. The conversation con-versation took place at a camp in the Adircmla-ks in the winter of 1114. and In a discussion of i.ew-piipers It was stated hy the u nidnt if i t person. Mr. Backer s.tid. thst the MMri publica- tions In New York mid the New York Kvening Ma 1 w ere the only papers that could be bought. The unidentified unidenti-fied person MA'd that the New York Hun. before it mould accept an advertisement adver-tisement for lie s.ile of fcf.w ks, would mal.e a thorough inveHtivation of the reitabilitv of the advertisers I Sena'or P.r d s-:td that lo admit the j affidavit w ould be an abuse of the i pri rb'gs-s of the cii)iiiittee, and that I as a member of the judiiar t onmiil-; onmiil-; lee- he wou d protest. The committee; i then went into exei'utive sermon nnl disi :eil the queMiton. Afterward 1 i Senatr Overman announced that nt I those portions of the affidavit reletting ' to Bernstoi ff's scheme to o v elop l v miff of publii lt for RwinirliiK Aaier- I lesn op nlon ou'd be aimitiei tit . asked Mr. Bet ker to tnfiiie himself in reantng the affidavit to that one 1 thing. j Mr. Be ker gave the committee an , account of an affidavit made by fount j James Minotto, an Italian subject and a son -in-law of Louis Swift. hose internment was ordered hy President Wamn. In that aff. davit Count Mi- notto told f a .oferein-e he hud with. Mr. Kahn in 1 i I . in w hich an invest-( riwnt in the Analo-Freu h loan by j Kuhn. Loeb at Co. waa discussed. Mr j Kahn was quoted as st irur that w hile j his firm had n.oi nvstd in the loan. he and Mortimer Kchiff did not deny ' having personally investert in,, it, j Senator Wolcott of 1 1 Delaw are ob- t tected to this testimony on the gro ind J of irrele va in y . M r. tUck r an id the i purpose of reading the affidavit was' to show thut In 1915 Kuhn. Loeh Co ' were "pa'nfuily neutraj ' Senator Nelson asked if the M M. Warburg' company of Hamburg was pot a brother, broth-er, or relsled In some wav to Paul t U'arburg. formerly member of the fed-j eral r-en e b-ird. He replied that ' such was the case. j |