800,000 HUN SPIES

Evening Star, Issue 16987, 8 March 1919, Page 9

800,000 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 causa of Hun "Kultur" at the beginning of the war, but far more important that the individual disclosures he mad© were his general revelations. He declared that on July 10, 1914, five days alter the notorious Potsdam meeting. at which the war was actually resolved upon, and 21 days before the actual outbreak of war, the German Government dispatched its general staff of trouble makers to different countries of the world. This staff embraced 130 writers and republicists, of whom 31 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 German subjects and Bympathisers. The organisation they created in the United States was known as " Germany's silent army." In this army the enlistment wag contemplated of no fewer than 300,000 men and women.