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Show DR. HALE FACES SERIOUSCHARGE Wrote Dernburg Speech Attempting At-tempting to Justify Sinking of the Lusitania. NEW YORK, July 26 The speech of Dr. Bernhard Dernburg at Cleveland Cleve-land in May ,1915, in which he attempted at-tempted to justify the sinking of the Lusitania and which caused his expulsion ex-pulsion from the United States, was prepared by Dr. William Bayard Hale, according to a statement here tonight by Deputy State Attorney General Alfred Al-fred Becker. A copy reader for the information service, Mr. Becker declared, testified testi-fied the address was edited and re-edited re-edited by Hale In New York and telegraphed tele-graphed to Dernburg the day it was delivered. Another revelation of the attorney general's inquiry into German propaganda propa-ganda activities before America's entrance en-trance into the war included testimony of Dr. Hale that Dr. Edward A. Rume-ly. Rume-ly. arrested recently in connection with the alleged German purchase of the New York Evening Mail was introduced intro-duced to him .in 1915 as "the special protege" of Dr. Dernburg. The introduction, in-troduction, he said, was made by Dernburg. Dern-burg. The attorney general's office made public code letters written to persons per-sons in Germany by Georgo Sylvester Viereck, editor of the former pro-Gcr-i man Fatherland, now called Viereck's , Weeklj'. The letters were intercepted before the American declaration of war. Since that time according to Viereck's own admission he has sent mail to Germany Ger-many through neutral countries. This action, according to authorities, is a violation of the trading-with-the-ene-my act The Viereck code letters, some of which were dated in 191G, apparently were innnocent communications on family and personal subjects, but, according ac-cording to Mr. Becker, they contained information of political conditions In this country. Mr. Becker declined to say whether Viereck's letters since this country entered the war contained code messages. mes-sages. Of 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 message. One letter, written in German Ger-man and dealing with the personal affairs af-fairs of the correspondent began, when read in code: "The situation is extraordinary." ana" gave a description of American feeling toward Germany. As late as last December, according accord-ing to Mr. Becker, Viereck mailed letters let-ters to his father, using persons to whom he addressed in Stockholm and Copenhagen to forward his messages. The elder Viereck, Louis Viereck, was described by the Fatherland as its correspondent in Berlin. Viereck declares de-clares today that his letters contained only personal messages to his father. He admitted that he had burned the originals here. Testimony of Dr. Hale and of the German information news service copy reader, whose name the authorities withheld tonight, linked the names of Hale, Rumely and Viereck, with Dernburg, Dern-burg, Dr. Heinrich and Albert and other directors of German propaganda propagan-da at conferences in the Broadway building which also held the offices of the Fatherland, the German information infor-mation service, Dernburg and Dr. Carl I A. Feuhr, author of the German propaganda prop-aganda works. Viereck was always there, Hale testified, and sometimes Rumely was proeent. Before the alleged al-leged purchase of the Mall he said there was talk of buying another New York daily, a weekly or a monthly magazine. The German information service, according ac-cording to the copy reader's testimony was personally supervised by Hale though the latter always insisted on secrecy regarding his activities. It was sent daily 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 tie necessity of intervention interven-tion in Mexico." There were sub-editors and translators, ho stated, including includ-ing Carl Mechlenburg, one time treasurer treas-urer in the universities of London and Dublin, who later fled to Mexico and Professor Harowltz, now in an American Amer-ican internment camp. Proofs of the five page "news sheet," the copy reader read-er testified were .jeent invariably to Matthew B. Claussen, publicity agent of the Hamburg American line. |