Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-12-07 | Page 10 | Failure of Propaganda for Germany

;FMLIEi r WASHINGTON. Dec. 7. Shipwreck of German propaganda in America by ! Bernard Dernberg was attributed by j Count von Bernstorff in his explanation explana-tion to the Berlin foreign office to the i impossibility of keeping secret the fact that an American newspaper is subsidized and to the sinking of the Lusitania, The former ambassador's explanation explana-tion was laid before the senate committee com-mittee investigating brewery and Ger- ! man propaganda today along with other secret documents from the files of the department of justice by A. Bruce Bielaski, chief of the bureau of investigation. In a letter to the foreign office in ( 1915, Bernstorff said the subsidizing of papers, always ended with him being be-ing held responsible for all the articles ar-ticles of such papers. For that reason, he said, he hao succeeded In getting free of all relations with the ."Fair Play" of Marcus Braun, and that he also would like to be free from .The Fatherland which, he added, 'hac shown Itself of little value." The letter spoke of an unfortunate experience with the "Times -Mail," and said only, the future could show "whether we will have better luck with Mr. Huntington Wright and Mr. 1 . J'J. .L.OW. j Among other documents presented by Mr. Bielaski were several relating ; to J. F. J Archibald, the American newspaperman, from whom German communications were taken by the British authorities while he was on his way to Germany. One paper was a German embassy receipt for $5,000 signed by Archibald, dated April 21, 1915. Telegrams began to reach the committee com-mittee today from the men whose names appeared on "the important list of names," among the German papers! produced yesterday. Next Tuesday was set for hearing Professor Albert Bush -nell Hart of Harvard, who asked , to be heard. A communication from Bernstorff announced that re-organization of J to Berlin, dated November 1, 1916. German propaganda had been started to avoid complications since the public pub-lic sentunent was aroused against the sinking of the Lusitania.