300,000 HUN SPIES.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 52, 1 March 1919, Page 19

300,000 HUN SPIES.

HOW POTSDAM PREPARED. Remarkable evidence was given before the Senate Committee at Washington, U.S.A.. investigators into German propagandist activities. Captain George B. Lester, 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 tbe individual disclosures he made were his general revelations. He declared that on July 10. 1014. five days after the notorious Potsdam meeting. at which the war was actually resolved upon, and 21 days before the actual out break of war, tbe German Government dispatched its, general staff of trouble ! makers to different countries of the world. IThis staff embraced V.)O writers and publicists, of whom 31 entered tbe United 'States, while others went to Mexico, Central America.-China, and the South American I republics. The instructions given to these agents were that a gpneral war was about to begin, and that they must in each country they visited galvanise a veritable army of German subjects and sympathisers. The organisation they created in the Unite'] States was known as "Germany's silent army." In this army the enlistment was contemplated of no fewer than 300,000 men and women. .