THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND HUN SPIES.

Taihape Daily Times, 7 March 1919, Page 6

THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND HUN SPIES.

HOW POTSDAM PREPARED,

Remarkable evidence was given before the Senate Committee at Washington, U.S A., investigators into German propagandist icti-iries.

Captain George B. Lest on, of the {Military Intelligence Bureau of the War Department, revealed the names of numerous Americans who served the cause of Hun “Kultur” at the beginning of the war, but far more important than -the individual disclosures he made wore his general revelations. He declared that on July 10. 1914, five days afto rthc notorious Potsdam meteting, after which L hc war was actually resolved upon, and 21 days before the actual outbreak of war, the German Government dispatch' its general staff of trouble makers to different countries of the world. This staff embraced 130 writers and publicists. of whom 21 entered the United States, while others went to Mexico, Central America, China, and the South American republics. The instructions given to these agents

were that a general war was about to begin, and that they must in each country they visited galvanise a veritable army of Gorman ‘subjects and sympathisers. The organisation they created in the United' States was Idnown as “Germany’s Silent Army.’ ’

In this- army the enlistment was contemplated of no fewer than 300,000 men and women.