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Show BStiii- International Newt Serv-I Serv-I ice Distributes German Ger-man Propaganda, Is Testimony at Hearing l By Aeaoclated Preai. WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.-- 13.-- Testimony that Edward I Lyell Fox, a writer, was sent to' Germany in 1915 by the German ! emhaaay to wrilo Gorman propaganda, propa-ganda, which wm diatributed by U" Hearat International News Kervire wm proaented today to the tenet committee, investigating brewer .and (enemy propaganda by Captain J. U. I Ideate r of the array Intt'lliKcnc act- j In reaponao to fiuootlon". Captain . Letter jut id there in nothing In (he I army intelligence roconla ahowlng ! whether either Mr. Hearst or the man-i man-i agera of tha International News 4Sr-! 4Sr-! vUe knew that t'ou was In the pay of the German government. CHICAGO TRIBUNE NAftfED. The witness read a telearain Rent from the O rina n em basay in Vsh-Ingtun Vsh-Ingtun to the Herman foreisn office, beptemlr t. 19)4, aaliic: "4'hirago Tribune friendly paper." CaptHin leater aatd tliat Kox con feaeed to him that while. In Oermany he had an unrlemtandinar that be would w rit an thing be w an told to write by the German publh Hy bureau at Herlln. WRITES A8 ORDERED. The wiln-a aaid ho itblamed fmir Kox an admiindnn that an article ap-Iearing ap-Iearing in the New Vork American n Heptember 1M.. IS, dealing with alleged al-leged a tro itiea by lluanian (.'oaaacka, waa written by him unijer limliiic-tioiia limliiic-tioiia from (ifrmin officer a, hi a meant of offaetting the eturie of Omi-in atrocities In Belgium tht had begun to come out about that t'me. "I obtained from Kox hfa original notea, w ritten In lead pen-i, on tha t 'on nack atory," t'apialn I,etier aatd, "and ho admitted be never aw an' of the atrocities referred to and thjit to his knowledge none of them over was committed. Kox waa given courtesies cour-tesies from ierman officers that no other cot respondent waa able to obtain." ob-tain." HEARST'S FILM PLAY. f'aptaln Tester id thnt a result of a requeat by I'rtaldent Wilson at a pel sitna I interview w itii VS'ill an; Itandolph Hearst. rtianf w were mad in th.A film play "I'hiiili." prndm-rd t aerially in the I r.ltvl Klatea early in 1 VI 7. pii-turinir Jupan and Mexico Ir an alliance against the United Htatea. Tha witneu r-ted th:a film ea oite bear 1 1. g earmark s uf Oruuni propaganda. propa-ganda. I-"ox. 'a it, tin Ieter tetiffrt, war aent to (iermanv in I 'Mi by the i',er man embaany. oafenatblv a a correspondent corre-spondent of the Wtlilninn NWfpa(Mr and .Magazine ndu-ate. and whs employed em-ployed by t h .'orranondents" Ki tr ompa n v, wh irli Im- -w-UJu;a, jsaid-w h t finanreil by the i lerman governnieni. liio managers of t'te Wild man ayndi-cate ayndi-cate did not know of Fox 'a connection with the (jetinaii embaaa, ro far a t'aptani leater knew. SENATOR KINO QUESTIONS. Captain lifter explainei tliat operations oper-ations in Kunp of the Henna aervue to which he referred. -wre stopped bv the British government in t h toler, I 1 6. Ha aMed that be thoueht tho . day service of tins irgnnitatiun liad never leen resumed. Captain Letter aail li had read ninny of Koa's articles written in Germany Ger-many and all were 'sheer pri-pa-gatida." Replying t a u Marion by Senator King of L"ta.h whether there was any evidence that the newspapers for whi h I'"o.x wrote knew of ina connection connec-tion with the t;ertnn . government. Captain lmer as id be bud no sprh Information. He atl he hmi reari articles ar-ticles by many correspondents in Germany Ger-many at that time and thone written bv William' Itaard Hnle a. id Koxweie more pronouncedly pio-Geriuau than , inv othera. senator King again sked Cipiw ii Iester alut his Informittion m io. tite numtier of ttewspa ifrd having; co-re- tponlents in GerniMny from I'Jii up ic . ' the time the I"ivit1 StHh-x nten-d t (Continued vo paa . . . i I WRITER FOR HEARST I J (Continued from pace I ) j I nr. He replied that tluri wera aoni1 I I'd corn sifopdcnts in Oein any duiing I lhat period. . i "So there wai r.o impropriety In I newytnairj having men in (jermany at I that Hme?" asked .cnator King. ".No. not at all," was (he rpl. ! Huns ToidVhen War Would Begin j WASHINGTON, pec. IS -The fjer-man fjer-man government, en June In. 191 4, in-I formed about 130 German civilian em-i pt(ye hi a conference in Berlin that j a world w.ir would be started aorn. ; C.iptaln O. ft. !"ter of the army In-j t"! licence service testified today be- fi-re the senate committee investlgat- lug tierman and brewer' propagandist These employes then were dia- ! patched to all parts of the world. thlr- '. ty-ott rmunr to the I'm ted Htates to sttmnltte pn-C,erman pnpsganda. 1 '.ipt'itn I-Kter ileclared. He said htn : Information came from an unnamd Informant, now interned In this coun- i try. The Oermsn pmpacandlita landed in the Cnifd States In Atigusi. 1914. on lhe same beat with lr. H. K. Albert.) known aa the paymaster of the enemy J propatcanda system In this counti). and Immediately formed tha nucleus for fierma n Dnioairianda i |