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Show IAMERICANSTO POLICE BERLIN I W, BH (ARD HALE II Wand hun 1 WASHINGTON, Dec. 6. In telling his story of Ger- j I man propaganda in America, A Bruce Bielaski, chief of tho j H bureau of investigation of the "department of justice, today 5j H laid before the senate committee investigating brewery and J H German propaganda, cablegrams exchanged in 1916 by Count ,H von Bernstorff, then ambassador here, and the Berlin foreign ; , office. x i i j'H One of Bernstorff s messages urged that special favoi ' H be shown William Bayard Hale, an American, about to visit j' H Berlin as a newspaper correspondent, because he was em- ij H ployed by the Hearst papers, which, the message said, coulcl It ! I be depended upon to favor Germany. rl I Bielaski told the committee that Hale was on the Hearst tji 'payroll for $300 a week and was also employed at $15,000 a, UH ! year by a publicity organization formed in this country by , f jl , Dr. Bernard Dernberg, the German propagandist. iM Suggesting on June 2 1916, that the time was favorable j. I "to get Hearst to snd a first rate journalist to Berlin," Bern- : Istorff told the foreign office that the man selected was Hale ijM I who, he said, had been a confidential agent of the embassy J , I since the beginning of the war and was bound as such by con J j j H tract to June 23, 1918. 1. I ! "Hearst," the ambassador's message said, "is not aware- )) I that Hale is our agent, but knows him only as a Germanophile ! jl I I iournalist who has contributed leading articles to papers." m I I ! Hale, according to Bielaski, was paid ! by the German government to visit ! Rumania and, if possible, prevent entrance en-trance of that nation into the war. Mr. Hearst, Bielaski said, was Ignorant Ignor-ant of Hale's employment on the lat. ter mission. I Following is the message of June 2, , sent by Bernstorff through Buenos Aires and Stockholm: "In conformity to your excellency's wish I suggest that the present is a favorable" time to get Hearst to send a first rate journalist to Berlin. The ! man suggested, W. B. Hale, has been, i as your excellency knows, since the beginning of the war a confidential I agent of the embassy, and as such has ; been bound by contract till June 23, 1918. In making this arrangement the ; main Idea was that Hale would be the 'most suitable man to start the re.or- ganization of the news service after peace on the right lines, i " request full confidence may be i accorded to Hale who will bring with I him a letter of recommendation from ; me to Dr. Hammat. Hearst it not i aware that Hale Is our agent, but j knows him only as a Germanophile Journalist who has contributed leading lead-ing articles to papers." Another message dated June 5, ! 1916, said: i "Hale tells me, and Hearst con-: con-: firms, that the latter is rather hurt ' that on Wicgand's account the World gets all the important Berlin Inter-; Inter-; views. I recommend that under suitable suit-able circumstances Hale should, for i obvious reasons, be given preference, las Hearst organs have during the course of war always placed them-i them-i selves outspokenly on our side." Bielaski said Germany never succeeded suc-ceeded In seducing an American official off-icial "If we except Congressman Buch-i Buch-i anan, of Illinois, who got mixed up with von Rintclen In Labor's Peace ! Council." The diary of Dr. Karl A. Fuehr, a German agent brought to America, by 'von Berrrstorff, was produced a paper labelled "Important list of names," which, Mr. Bielaski said, contains "practically all who were actively pro-German prior to our entrance in the war and a few who were active afterwards." The list follows: -Professor William R. Shepherd, Columbia university; Professor Hugo- Jill Muensterburg, Harvard university; , ''II Professor William M. Sloane, Colum- bia university; Dr. Edmund von Mach, j MM Cambridge, Mass.; Dr. Auth'von' Bri- ;H esen, New York; Professor John W, I H Burgess, Newport, R. I.; Professor1 1 Eugene Smith, Columbia university; j H Professor H. C. Sanborn, Vanderbilt j. , H university; Professor J. G. McDonald, ,' JIH University of Indiana; Professor Ferd- ' ' Inand Scheull, University of Chicago; ! ! E. C. Richardson, Princeton universi'- ! j fl ty; Professor Kun Francke, Harvard 1 university; Professor George B. Mc- it R Clellan, Princeton university; Profes- flil sor A. B. Faust, Cornell university; j nil Professor Morris Jastrow, ' Jr., Uni- ' iJiH versity of Wisconsin; Dr. Walter S. 4 HlH McNeil, Richmond; Dr. David Starr , Jordan, Berkeley, Cal.; Peter S. J'lM Grosscup, United States federal judge, r' I I Highland Park, III.; Richard Bartholdt, St. Louis; Professor Albert Bushnell Hart, Harvard university; Dr. C. J. j. UlH Hexamer, Philadelphia; Charles Na- i H gel, St. Louis; Oswald Garrison Vil- Mrl lard, New York Evening Post; Wil- lh liam Randolph Hearst, New York American; Bernard Rldgcr New York v- Staats Zeitung; Edward A. Rumely, h New York Evening Mali; Frederick I MM A. Schrader, 1497 Broadway, New I MM York; Frank Harris, New York City; I. j Rob I. Ford, Freeman's Journal, New f VjjB York Rev Father Thierny American fill Catholic Weekly, New York, Max A, Heine, New York; George S. Viereck, New York. 1 j I Besides this list, Mr. Bielaski also I presented a supplemental list of about I !l thirty names of others to whom he ,i; B said German propaganda matter was B mailed but who were not believed to k'Wm be friendly to the cause. This list, l the committee decided to withhold NIB from the record. I'll Mr. Bielaski produced letters Dr. Hale wrote to Dr. Albert, German jHB propagandist, advising how notes T written by Secretary Bryan during the I B Lusitania controversy should be an- ! I ( swered. '' 111 From Dr. Fuehr's diary were read jj notes telling of conferences between .M Hale and Dr. Bernstorff. Accompany- j; , Ing Hale was LouIb D. Edwards, also . IIM sent by Mr. Hearst who later, accord- j ing to Mr. Bielaski, discovered Hale j. , '(Continued on Page 4.) W. Bayard Hale On Payroll of Hearst and Hun (Continued from Page 1) still was In the pay of the German government. A prisoner named Wuennenberg, at 'Atlanta penitentiary, convicted of espionage, es-pionage, according to Mr. Blclaskl, informed in-formed the department of justice that a special mission of Hale was to arrange, ar-range, In transmitting his news dispatches, dis-patches, to Include messages for German Ger-man officials In this country. Many books and pamphlets showing .German propaganda efforts were pro-1 duced by Mr. Bielaski. An I |
