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Show Bernsiorff Recommended Recommend-ed Hearst Man as German Agent. TO INFLUENCE PRESS !i Hues Wanted to For-' ckseN.Y. and Wash- ington Papers. WASHINGTON, Dec. 6In recom-' mending W. Bayard Halo as a publicity publici-ty agent for Germany Bernstorff told the foreign office that Hale had Inter-. viewed tho former emperor in 1908, tnat ne nnu written a lire of President Wilson which was used in the 1916 campaign and that his wife was German. Ger-man. The beginning of the German propaganda, propa-ganda, Bielaskl testified, was in 1914 when Dernberg and Albert formed an organization with offices at 1123 Broadway, New York. Albert and Dernberg brought from Germany ono hundred and fifty million dollars In German securities, BeilaskI said. Only $5,000,000 worth were sold, that amount being used in propaganda. In October, 1914, George Sylvester VIercck, editor of The Fatherland, wrote to Albert, suggesting that the publicity bureau should take steps ot acquire an American newspaper, preferably pref-erably .the New York Sun, or the Press Later on, Mr. Blelaski said, he would give the committee information about an attempt to purchase the Sun by Samuel Untermycr. VIereck suggested suggest-ed an arrangement with a New York paper which would form an alliance with a Gorman agency, similar to the New York Times' arrangement with tho London Times. A committee of the German propaganda propa-ganda organization, of which Halo, VIereck, Edward A. Rumely and others oth-ers were members, met with Albort and Dernberg, frequently In New York, Bielaskl said. At one meeting, on November No-vember 5, 1914, Dernberg's notes showed show-ed that it was the opinion of the committee com-mittee that public opinion in favor of Germany was most important and that every courtesy should be shown American Amer-ican correspondents in Germany. At the same meeting, the Dernberg notes recorded that the Irish question would be an important one in the propaganda prop-aganda and that James K. McGuire, former mayor of Syracuse, N. Y., had undertaken the organization of a society so-ciety that was to conduct propaganda in favor of Germany among the Irish. Associated with the Irish propaganda propagan-da campaign was Dr. Fuohr, a former Gorman consul-general in the Orient. Mr. Bielaskl told tho commltteo that In October, 1914 Bernstorff wrote a letter addressed to Albert and Dernberg Dern-berg In Avhich he said the Washington Post was offered to him for ?2,000,000. This offer was made ho said, with tho understanding that the Post owners would buy tho paper back at the end of tho war for $1,500,000. oo |
