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i - How- the newspaper editors in Ger- 1
many are forced by the government i
censor to deceive and bamboozle the i
people is shown by a copy of the se- i
fiK- cret . orders to the German press 1
which has come into the possession :
fof the State Department. The edit- '
ore are forbidden to print anything 1
about reverses suffered by the Ger- <
man army or navy and must suppress t
everything unfavorable to the Cen- i
tral Powers. Everything favor- I
able, however, must be emphasized
in large type. For fear thg atrocities
perpetrated by the German soldiers i
will cduse the people to protest, men- i
tion of these outrages is either for- t
bidden entirely or must be minimized.
Here are some of the orders from
the censor to the German editors; I
"f oncfirnine the most recent bomb
attack by a German flying machine on
London, nothing may be published."
"It is forbidden to publish any- 1
thing concerning a fire In the flying 1
' station at Lawica."
"It Is desired that the great enemy ;
flying machine losses in the month of ,
SMay be strongly emphasised by large ;
headings or in some other particular
manner."
"For the present nothing may be '
published concerning the. explosion
which took place this morriihg at the .
^ Frledrjchstrasse station la Sertln."
"JVdyertlsements of undertaking '
establishments wnicn seen ue removal
of the bodies of fallen soldiers
are not to be accepted." ,
"It is desired that it should be
$?5: clearly, and distinctly put In the fore- 1
/gjf- ground that the enemy offensive has
utterly failed on all fronts, that the :
" enemy has no alternative but to at~:.
tempt another offensive, as the en- 1
Tgfci emy statesmen are still against
peace." 1
"Petit Parlsien informs us that five
, Amfe'rifian divisions, numbering 125,- :
4)00 men, may be expected in Prance
la the autumn ol 1917. It ^urgently
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"TRENCH A
[lamp by Robert L. Ripley
dered To Deceive
-Picked War News
[nation without some comment. We
do not wish to underestimate the
ability of America to accomplish
things, but must not, on the other
hand, overestimate it. In order to
bring a division over from America,
75,000 tons must make the trip twice.
Therefore, from the mere fact of lack
of space, the transportation of such
a body of troops within certain fixed
time limits is impossible. Moreover,
it is impossible to train these troops
properly by autumn. These facts
which have recently been discussed in
the German war news can not be too
strongly emphasized in the discussion
of that French news."
"While the news about America's
war preparations, such as the organization'
end outfitting of an artay
1,000,000 strong to reinforce the
French-English front, is looked upon,
In that form, as Uluff,' the spreading
of which may unfavorably affect the
opinion of the German people, yet the
fact must not be overlooked, on the
other hand, that the United States,
with the Bupport of its capacity for
material and industrial management,
fnr wa'v with crreat
energy and tenacity. The war preparations
in America are therefore, as
was intimated in_the Reichstag at the
time, not at all to be made little of,
bat must be taken seriously, without
on that account being made a source
of woryy."
Concerning the recent announce
i ik.? nma*<s>a wnnM nend our
Allies 90,000,000 bushels of wheat, a
German paper, acting under the direction
of the censor, printed the following:
"This means that America has decided
not to appear on the battlefield
ror an indefinite time. The last hope
of the Entente has gone. It will inevitably
cause deep depression in
France, whose bread ration may be
increased slightly, but for whose
war-weary troops there is no hope of
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I THE OTHER SIDE OF WAR
you wouldn't think that wenf
would go to war to learn how to be
kind, but they do, in the observation
of a Canadian soldier. There's no
kinder creature in the whole wide
world than the average Tommy. He
makes a friend of any stray animal
he can find. He shares his last franc
with a chap who isn't his pal. He
risks his life quite incoBsequently to
rescue any one who's wounded.
When he's gone over the top with
bomb and bayonet for the express
purpose of "doing in" the Hun, he
makes a comrade of the Fritzle he
captures. Yon'll see him coming
down the battered trenches with
some scared lad of a German at his
side. He's gabbling away making
throat-noises and signs, smiling and
doing his inarticulate best to be intelligible.
He pats the Hun on the
back, hands him chocolate and cigarettes,
exchanges souvenirs and
shares with him his last luxury. If
any one interferes with hiB Fritzle
he's willing to fight. When they
come to the cage where the prisoner
has to be handed over, the farewells
of these companions whose acquaintance
has been made at the bayonetpoint
are often as absurd as they are
affecting. I suppose one only learns
the value of kindness when he feels
the need of It himself. The men out
there have said "Good-bye" to everything
they loved, but they've got to
love some one, so they give their affections
to captured Fritzles, stray
dogs, fellows who've collected a piece
of a shell?in fact, to any one who's
a little worse off than themselves.
WANTED TO SEE ENEMY
A BVoncli nrflllprvman who had
been in an artillery camp "at the
front" for three yeirs helping to
bombard the German lines and furnish
barrages, recently returned to
Paris on furlough. His first request
was that he be allowed to visit a
prison camp where German prisoners
were incarcerated, as he had not laid
eyes on a German soldier since the
beginning of the war.
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"'thebarracks wheeze" t.uj^it
BY PRIVATE CHET SHAFER ,
(3J0 Sanitary Train, Camp Caster, MxWjfflj&l
Battle Creek, Mich.) \3?0cfi|3 .
Would be ZtSfW
About as iW'T.jS
Useful
Ruck in 191(1 nil men were "guys" mm MAS
In 1911 they became "birds"
From 1911 to 1916, inclusive, tlicy W
were "dudes"
Now, according to leuding ologists, y
(hey arc "Eggs." IffflWuAvK
Although the guardhouse is not lo- |U
cated with respect for geographical WHbM[
convenience it is the most accessible K^^uS
building in the cantonment. umY/^^U
ONE NEVER REALIZES UNTIL |B?rW^3
ONE GETS IN THE ARMY HOW Ufc ?.4
MANY OFFENSES THERE ARE ^a^jpp^
Otherwise . ts
//:?- court-martial I I ,.i" '
A rAVDAV, MOItK OK LKSS, wkfc ^
BKTWKKN FK1KNDK, ISN'T MICH.
BIT A FBIKNI>. MORK OK LKSS,
BKTWKKN PAYDAYS?OH, BOY!
Many a good wag Is making the
lean guard from the National Army I
after the war will be some task. BffflffH xl
A "Fours Right," n |l
"To the Rear. March:"
THE GROUCH
By WALT .MASON
When wise men write the history
of this unholy scrap they'll roast in
language blistery the cold-wet-blanket
chap. The chap professing loy- J jp
altv until he sprains his dome, yet L
comforts Prussian royalty by finding
fault at home, lie shakes his head- M (1j|J
piece gloomily as all our statesmen jjjjs
do, and grouchily and rheumlly expounds
his doleful view. "We started
in too recently, we were two years
too late;- we loafed around indecently,"
observes the sad-eyed skate. 7tC%
"We have a cheap John cabinet, and f
congress is no good; there's too much
wind and gab in it, and no one's saw- 74
ing wood. We're^ wasting time in ,
training men; they all should be In nt??
France, and busily a-braining men, I111 I
with club and gun and lance." Thus 11W
prates the sorehead drearily, until jgr I
his talk grows stale, till we assemble
wearily and ride him on a rail. Don't /jf jfrf
go complaining bitterly?much bet- ff fjN
ter be a clam! Talk hopefully and \A//aJy f
twitterly, stand up for Uncle Sam! Jfy /ff
The ?rroneh' Tn silk or denim he is ...,(yf ,
traitor to the flag! He's helping out lh
the enemy the way he chews the rag! iy,lr{
?(Copyright by George Matthew jh
GOULLET IN AIR SERVICE
Alfred Goullet, winner of the last
six-day bicycle race in New York, has I[/jfnj^inA
joined the United States Aviation M
Corps. He enlisted recently and asked
to be assigned as a regular instead of
a reserve, and his wish was granted. ^UnAeVnUk
riniillot pinpcla his exnerienca as a IuMtA Jj/tffBA
cyclist to stand him in good stead in LW/flj
his coming exploits as an aviator. "I yfajgUW
intend to work hard, and I feel cer- UUV
tain that I will master the aircraft, jfjy//y J
I'd like to be in the flying squad that HjMi/JA
first sails over Berlin." B'
Alfred is the second member of the B
Goullet family to join the colors. A ^B
brother, Ernest, who enlisted in Aus- B
tralia, was badly injured in the Gal- B
lipoli campaign and la now back in B
Australia, an invalid for life.
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