Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 24, 1919, Page 6

| | | # | | PAGE SIX s ——_o—r GERMAN PEOPLE DELUDED BY LIES Ii'low the Censorship Hid or Falsi- fied Facts Is Told in Pamphlet. TRUTH KEPT FROM PAPERS Never Any Official Admission of Marne Defeat—Strikes and Food flls Kept Secret—America’s Posi- tion as Neutral Distorted. Berlin.—Revelations of the “stupld- sty and cunning” of German newspa- per censorship, which for more than Your years filled 70,000,000 people with the hope of an impossible victory, hid from them the news of defeats, and at last contributed to the downfall of the stracture of pretense it had raised are brought out in a remarkable pamphlet said to have been Inspired by Dr. Wil- kelm Muehlon, formerly director of the Krupp works, whose expose of Germany In 1918 as the real Instiga- tor of the war sent him into voluntary extle in Switzerland. | The pamphlet, entitled, “How We Were Lied To,” 1s published ostensi- #ly under the name of Kurt Muehsam, « former Austro-German war corre- spondent. It is filled with instances of miiitary duplicity, showing the ef- forts that were made to conceal from the German people everything of a dis- couraging nature that had to do with the war. Newspaper editors, according to the decament, were forbldden, under dire penalties, to discuss any subject re- fating to the war without the approval of hurdreds of government censors, operating through 21 newspaper bu- reaus and various branches of the gov- ernment. The Lusitania sinking and the submarine controversy with the Waited States were so maneuvered in the press that for months the people were led to bellieve that the negotia- tlons were taking *“a course very fa- sorable to us.” MNews Very Carefully Filtered. Only such news was published as the militarists thought would favor- ably affect public opinion, and to carry out this purpose, the pamphlet points out, all kinds of falsitles were em- ployed. Secretary Lansing, for instance, was reported as Il and on the verge of Ueaving office. A hopeless breach was also sald to have arisen between the secretary of state and President Wil- W0, Doctor Muehlon, who, in earller rev- elations accused the then Emperor ‘Willlam of having issued the order “take no prisoners,” points out the fact that not once in all of the Ger- man war reports can be found any ad- mission that the first battle of the Marne was a German defeat. The only thing that the German high com- mand was able to report about that reverse was disgulsed in these words: . “In the western theater of war the .operations, details of which cannot yet be published, have led to a new battle which Is developing favorably. Reports spread hy the enemy unfuvor- able to us are false.” The former head of the munition plant at [ssen, who possessed com- plete Information as to tlie operations of the mlilitary authorities, said that “there was tardly a day during all %he long war when the editorlal offices of the German dually press were not ‘wonored” by the receipt of confiden- tfal communicailons, orders and pro- hibltions from the censorship authori- tes, cplculated to limit free expres- ston of oplulon on the most vital ques- tiens ond ultimately to throttle It ‘Mustn’t Say “Ruthless U-Boat War” ‘fhe Germans, for instance, were aever to be charged with conducting 2 “ruthless” U-boat war, but rather an “unllmited” or “boundiess” war. Deseriptions of devastation In France and Belglum were forbidden and all references to barbarism and waanton destruction were taboo, with the sig: aificant expression, “The army knows when to use force and when to be mild." Details of the closing of fac tortes; coal and food shortages, poor crops and the employment of prisoners of wer in mines and munition plants were suppressed, as were also reports of street disorders, unrest and strikes. It must be understood, writes Doc- tor Muehlon’s collaborator, that all the censorship regulations under which the newspapers were operating were anknown to the peopte. The distor- don of facts was thus made easy for svery editor. He was encouraged to say that, notwithstanding that the al- ties were sinking German submarines as fast as they could be built, “the aumber of new German U-boats is four times greater than the losses. Our sumbersible fleet has grown extraordi- narily during the war. The press is 0 picture the submarine warfare as a means of shortening the struggle and mot as a measure of retaliation or a ‘weapon to starve our foes.” After months of deception in trying to convince the people that America would never enter the war, asserts the Krupp director, when President wWilson sent his ultimatum the Ger- man press readily executed an “about #uce” and endeavored to minimize the TUnlted States as a possible adver- sary. Kven after the United States had impded more than 1,500,000 men in France Doctor Muehlon shows the German papers continued their cam- puign of falsity. After the United States had entered the war the censors permitted such statements as “the damage to Ger- man ships lying in American harbors has been carrled out to our satisface tion. For example, the glant steam- ship Vaterland has been made wholly unusable. Even the sketches of the turbine construction have been de- stroyed.” How They Pictured America. An Interesting sidelight on the psy- chological view the average German was permitted of the American situ- ation Is shown in the following sum- marization by Doctor Muehlon: “At the beginning of the war Amer- lea was Inimleal to Germany. But this situation was Improved. After the Lusitanla things got worse agaln. Then an improvement set in because America had such cause for complaint agalnst England. At the time of the breach of diplomatic relations the im- pression prevailed that the people did not want war with Germany. “Wilson has a more .strongly auto- crutlc position than any European ruler. Since he Is English in his up- bringing he knows little or nothing about German things and has no use for Germans. Undoubtedly he has been agalnst us from the outset. Often, however, he has had to guard the interest of American high finances. Wilson himself has an unbribable character. He did not labor to bring about war with Germany, since there does not exist a positive desire for war. “The impression in America is gen- eral that his peace intentions were serfous and honorable. He wanted to become the peace president, but the breach of relatlons was necessary for him for the malntenance of American prestige. In the war between Amer- fca and Germany the financial sup- port of the entente by America will be very great. In a warllke way, how- ever, the Americans can never become dangerous for us either on land or In water.” German People Awakened. The mesmeric spell which had been cast upon the people as a resuit of reading dally “an unbroken chain of victorious announcements,” Doctor Muehlon points out, was dissipated when the foreign secretary, Von Kxehlmann, declared publicly that the wir could not be won “militarily.” It cost Kuehlmann his post, but it awak- ened the German people to the fact that they were on the edge of natlonal disaster. Thereafter the censors per- mitted less optimistic and bombastic news reports, Loss of the war was charged by the former Krupp expert to two grave mistakes by Ludendorff, described as the “brains of the German army,” {n his failure, first, to estimate the won- derful possibilities of the American troop transport, and, second, his false assumption that Marshal Foch's re- serve army had ceased to exist In June, 1918. Ludendorff, he sald, gambled with the existence of Germany. He was like a jockey In a long race who forced his horse far ahead of the rest ‘of the THE BEMIDJI' W :;}0:0:OI':':01010:0:0:0:':0:0.'0.'0.'9“.o!o. :o:o:.:c:o:, > :§i Plan War on Waste K With War Stamps ] & Washington.—The department ] of commerce has declared war on the city dump. The waste reclamation service has formu- lated a plan which will lessen annual loss. The War Savings stamp and the Thrift stamp will compete with the eity dump for thousands of tons of valuable materfal. This 13 “Clean Up and Paint Up” time, and the accumulation of the winter will be moving to the dump. Urban communities annually send to the dump 13 tons of valuable waste fér every 1,000 persons. Twenty per cent of this Is waste paper. About 150,000 tons of paper are sent to the dump annually. Great Britain under the stress of war increased collection of waste paper from 1,000 tons to about 6,000 tons a week. This was effected through the efforts of the controller of paper. The War Savings and Thrift stamp can become the paper controller for this country. The waste rec- lamation service has requested the local waste reclamation councils to assign a waste dealer to each district and to have the housewife sell her waste for Thrift stamps, KX XX XHCXXINXINXIOOCX XXX TeTe KXRXXX DR e X2 XXX X XX OOV (XX XXRXXX O XX XL Q e X O XX XX XX XX XX XX XXX 2O OO0 KX o XXX X o e & X e e X X XX e > o e O XX XX X SO XX X0 b XX XX e o e X XX O e X DO KX 0 XX XX XXX XXX e XX R > XXX o XX < ¢t Starting. Something. The household was comparatively qulet when the tersyear-old son looked up from the last page of a recent issue of the News,and inquired of both par- ents sitting near: “What's funny about this here ‘Abe Martin? ‘There’s never anything' t' eat in 8 home where tW¥ wife is on an allowance.’” “The Jjoke, my son,” his father replied; “Is that in- stead of spending the allowance for eats, the wife blows it in for clubs, clothes, candy and conventlons.” “No, gon,” sald the mother, “the fact is that the allowance is not large enough to provide a hotel menu, though the men seem to think it is. And that is no joke, either.”—Imlianapolis News. Bullet in Brain Twenty Years. After living for 20 years with & bullet in his brain, Edgar Wilgus, an insurance broker of Trenton, N. J., was killed by a 5-foot fall on the granite steps of a New York hotel. The med- feal esmminer, discovering the bullet in the man’s brain, thought at first that he had been unaccountably shot, but learned by telephoning to his home how long he had carried the bullet In his hend. There ix more Catarri In this section of the coumtry than all other diseases put togeiher, and for years it was sup- posed to be incurable. Doctors prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with Jocal treatment, pronounced it incurable. Catasrh is a local disease, greatly infteenced by constitutional con- Jitions and therefore raquires constitu- tional treatment. HaR's Catarrh Medl- cine, manufactured by F. J. 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