£5400,000.
WPENfT OX GERMAN FRIGHTFtTL*NESS IN U.S.A. (London Times Correspondent.) New York, Jan. 3. According to tlie estimate of Mr George Haven Putnam, the head of the American Rights Committee, £5, 400,000 have bsen spent in America since the war began under German authority for propaganda work, destruction of American property, furtherance- of strikes, and the purchase* of American papers. This statement was made by Mr Putnam in answer to a letter from Dr. O. Meager, the German Consul-General at Oincinnatti, who protested against the charges of German 'brutality in Belgium and asserted that "Americans are misled by their newspapers, which have heen hired by English money." Mr 'Putnam stated further that he had received a great mass oF German propaganda material and added "I have not received a single document from tlie" British, French, or Italian irepresentatives. They lare content to* let the justice of their cause stand for itself. The' statements presenting the .cause of England and France have come to me from individual correspondents on the other side . of the Atlantic.
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Levin Daily Chronicle, 14 April 1917, Page 2
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