Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1915-02-03
nEspoNsInIIITY on THE PRESS.
BY Frank Rooster, Consulting En-
gineer, in The Fatherland.
Continuation.
Fake Pictures.

/ showed luC hinS Oh belgium Ill
conference with his General Staff.
/ The picture was one in reality of the
King of Belgium in times of peace
as the guest of honor at reception
given by German officers wearing, as
the picture showed, the Prussian
uniform A decorative feature of
the building was a German eagle
over the doorway.
Numerous pictures are published
OF Germans entrenched firing at the
enemy" about to charge. These
pictures are usually photographs Of
peace maneuvers, as may be seen
from the equipment, which has not
been used In the German army for a
! number Of years. Further, the
helmet spikes are shown glistening
in all their splendor. In times of
war the German soldier pulls a cloth
over his helmet so that no reflection
will make his presence known to the
enemy.
Turkish" lancers are shown leav-
ing ConstantinoDel for the front, inn
mediately following Turkeys dec
laration of war. These Turkish"
soldiers carry the maltese cross, and
are in reality Roumanian soldiers
probably returning from maneuver.
A torpedo room of a submarine is
Illustrated which is in reality tor
podo chamber of a battleship.
particularly sardonic example
OF journalistic insult TO public in
telligence was the publication of q
picture showing English soldiers
under which were captions to the
effect that These are the great Eng
/ lish soldiers who continuously de-
1 feat the German army" The German
edition OF the same paper on the
same day used the same illustration
with captions to the effect that
These are the brave English sol
diers who, due to their long legs, are
continuously running away from the
Germans at top speed"
The formation OF public opinion in
the United States as well as through
out the rest of the world by means
OF inventions disseminated by the
British government through the
/ English press and news agencies
with their cable system is well
understood by thinking peopel in
this country, to whom such under
handed methods are naturally re-
pellent.
For instance George Moore in the
San Francisco Examiner writes:
Europe knows America and we
misunderstood Europe through news
bearing the London date. Negro
burning, the CamOrra, bull fights,
the Dreyfus case, Russian Jew
slaughters, pass to and fro as
news through London.
"Since the establishment Of the
! Triple Entente London remade the
! I1rorah 10 ut az fba rtroflI
/ the date OF the Entente's beginning,
the myth of French decadence be-
came the miracle Of French renais
sance. From the same moment the
bear that walks like q man was
transformed by DR.. Dillon and host
Of lesser English into simple Chris
tian hero.
" EVERY one remembers the Eng4
lish-told story Of the Japanese-Rus-
sian war, that story drove us mad
With admiration for the Japanese,
England's allies; that made. us for
get the great unselfish friendship Of
Russia in the time of our own great
war. From London the news poured
into our newspapers, always for
Japan till VIC served as England's
tool to help humiliate Russia BY a
disastrous peace and hated the jap
anese since the next day after the
treaty was signed.
How the English Press Monlds
Opinion.
During the Russia-Japanese war
the British system OF press misin-
formation Ted up" the newspapers
OF the United States pro-Japanese
matter We were consequently ad-
3,
an admiration which has sensibly
cooled since the truth of the relation
of the United States and the Jap
anese had dawned upon the public.
Now that Russia is an ally of Eng
land, Di. Eliot is trying to have us
believe that in the brief time since
the massacre OF Kishinef, Russian
civilization mas been so greatly inn
proved that Russian may to-day be
considered the torch bearer OF en-
lightenment.
early in the present war this
country was flooded with reports OF
mistreatment alleged to have been
( suffered by Americans in Germany.
When the truth came through, these
reports We're completely discredited.
Together with the reports of alleged
atrocities in Belgium it is now real
/ lied by the American public that
they were direct lies.
Irwin S. Cobb writes in the Sat-
urday Evening Post: Some time
back, / wrote in an article Of tho
Saturday Evening Post that l had
been able TO find in Belgium, no di-
rect proof of the mutilauon, the tor
turing and other barbarities which
were charged against the Germans
by the Belgians, and fully q
dozen Journalists both English and
American have agreed with me, say
ing that their experience in this re-
gard has been the same as mine"
The enormous effect on public
opinion OF such lies cannot be
estimated The misrepresentation
is furthered by the dishonesty Of our
daily press, the greater part of which
publishes all the lies which emanate
from London, and even goes so far
as to discant in lengthy editorials