Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-10-17
LONDON PRINTS BERLIN REPORTS OF
WAR AS A MATTER OF CURIOSITY
NOn-0c AnnOunceme n Germany
Correspondent Cites
Emanaing CapItaI-Passed
British Censor.
Especial TO the New York Herald).
Herald Bureau,
No. 1870 Fleet Street,
London. Tuesday. J


Herald Bureau,
No. 1870 Fleet Street,
London, Tuesday. }
why isn't the German side presen-
ted? Are all the American newspa-
pers against Germany"
These questions were asked yester-
day by a party OF Americans who had
recently left Berlin, and they reflect
a general puzzled inquiry of many
others. The fact seems established to
them that reports concerning the war
which come from London or Paris are
credited and given prominence in the
American newspapers, while reports
from the German capital are referred
to as If they did not really matter
Germany has no means of getting
fair hearing says Herr Won Beth
-Hollweg, the German Imperial
Chancellor. At first flush IL might
appear that his statement is literally
true
But to really understand the situa-
ton and at the same time to enable
an impartial observer to intelligently
follow the daily events of the war it
is necessary to suspend judgment un-
til appreciation is given to the man
ner in which official news from Lon
don, Paris, Petrograd and Berlin is
communicated to the public. cur
sorry survey of such official news as
has been issued so far will suffice to
show why Berlin official reports have
Jared so badly and why instant inn
portance is attached to any scrap Of
official information that comes from
the other capitals mentioned. In
short. the difference between these
reports. is the difference between fact
and fiction.
Since the start of the war the Brit
ish, French and Russian governments
have provided their subjects with the
truth. The Kaiser's government has
provided the German people with such
news as It wanted them to believe.
On cue side it has been facts as they
are on the ether il has been facts as
Germany thought they ought to be.
These statements would, of course, be
of little weight were il not that any
one with eyes to read can verify them
by events that have transpired. II
is question of the truth coming out
i'll the wash"
British War News.
Here in England, for instance, there
was. confess, a verv general feeling
A. the beginning Of the war that re.
pOrts from the from. would be color
ed for British consumption. Even
the man on the street. the car con-
ductOrs, the taxicab drivers had a no
ticn that matters would De pictured
to them in a more rosy hue than cir
cumstance warranted The cockney
with an air of superiority, told his
comrades that they must remember
things would only be 'alf as good as
they looked There was a feeling
that it helped peoples courage tC
speak of victories and overlook de
feats. The official bulletins, how
ever, upset these theories.
"Allies beaten back all along tn
line. British sufier severely. Heav.
British casualty list!'
These headlines, based on oficia
British reports, stared out at the peo
pie of London soon after the grea
armies had come to grips. The sue
ceeding messages were even worse fol
, Britons to bear. They came at thu
British public like blows between thu
eyes, every one of them. They hat
the punch of truth behind them ant
no attempt to minimize. It was:-
AGermans advance; drive all befOr,
] them! German heavy guns cause tire
mendOus havoc. British losses IF
! teen thousand"
But facts still demanded that tn
British public be given another dose
for news trickled in officially that tn
cruiser Pathfinder had been blown u
by a torpedo In a few minutes tn
news was in the street, everywhere Il
, London.
s "British ship sunk by German tor
=. pedO. German success at sea. Tn
e Pathfinder sent to bOttOm!"
g When the Allies got the whip han
e in France, with the German armie
e almost at the gates of Paris, the off
t cial reports. of course took on a dii
a ferent aspect, and the retreat Of tn
Germans to the Marine and the detail
Of the Allies saving victory in tn
: battle of the Marine we're displaye
: quite as prominently as their recer
: defeats.
< "AIIles push Germans back
9 Kaiser's army retreating toward tn
! Aisnew
: was the welcome news to the British
: ers. When the German retreat dev'
d loped in some parts of the line to
rout where guns and war material an
+ stragglers we're left behind the otficii
e news published here was to the effe'
n that the
e @Retreat of Germans is very rapi
n Signs of rOut!"
Disaster on the sea
e The battle of the Aisne has prov
l. ded cautious official bulletins, SON
favorable others less favorable, bI
In the meantime London was shooke
by the official bulletin of the thrC
cruisers in the North Sea which wa
communicated to the British publ
by the posters stating,
"Great British naval disaster! Bri
lsh ships sunk in North SeG!'
Naturally these bulletins attract in
n mediate notice. especially when Il
\ news is official. for in every case Il
news, whether good, bad or indiffe
ent, has turned out to be precisely
PHI is was represented. In no case hi
or any official bulletin mentioned or eve
ia limited at victories which have m
10. been substantiated. IL has been pla
he, truth straight from the shoulder evel
all time.
lis The French official bulletins, thoul