New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-17

Ian accounts Of the naval
o. ~ !. ne Falkland Islands were
. Iondon. They we're dated
~ 70 ,..r,ber 2i. and we're pub
.ay' p' y, Thursday, December -;
u hsfe . ", doing in the interval !
| I'd we're teke three DAYS for dis
!, ioss ~ from New York 20 ap-
~; y GO. g. rr.rt2 There was no
% transmission. Other dlS-
y irsS and appeared as usual.
rs l ,sner that ! have seen Of
Erg''n r,isDatlon or tries 20 &C
sry yyl Sc'sy. There can be but
q ',I - the Press Bureau; OF
~ s, I'm figure OF silence sits
pTTH pcs bureau and. as we are
:: s.t told. controls its deei-
80 fruve was presumably in
y e''.. ~ lord OF the Admiralty;
a's S sD.l Lord or Sea Lord there
ger Wv. show. But I doubt
'''iilIL Fisher. First Sea Lord
sH ~ snrreme in sea strategy,
20, sole much about the news
res ~. has more serious work on
r. az Nv Winston Churchill has
D-' solictudc about the Press
S'-,iovs care lest naval secrets
s,resr IN print except as ne
ont A. guess. we may
rs. 49, last piece Of veNatious
...reress 90 him.
~ hard. YOU may dimly per
~, e. bad q reason, and II YOU
"a, .,T greater effort and en-
~. vour mind 90 those aerial
-t,ch nave become familiar
r., Lord. 10 may occur TO you
Games IndeNible and lnNln-
le 49, now for the first time IN
sF,..,t IS names Of two battle
> Frbi,h Admiral Sir Devotion
y ,ook with him 20 the south
~ whether 10 would have been
81. ....,s 70 publish their names on
~ rbetbcr 10 required two full
,rofound meditation 20 decide
f..,.b risk could be run; or
y. 5gring those two full DAYS the
~ .s;.b existed on the Monday
..,,sared by Thursday. must be
49, reader % decide for him
- cannot spend IS hours OF
..-,bsd meditation on this prop
.,-lsps two seconds would answer
-, I,rs told 8 fortnight ago that
Cook had been appointed TO
in the Press Bureau. and that
,.,,',-slies and inoptitudes Of its
So would be corrected or swept
P5, thew have not been. The
,-bs,il;tv is one OF the worst;
a N rank with 'he p hours. de-
- Prime Minister'S speech or
-.,,s.sior Of the official Admiral
~. ~ Of the He.Coiand naval eNeuI-
- its brilliant success. SIT +. j.
= an experienced and accom-
~ journalist. but he seems thus
,svsrless 10 reform abuses. And
u nothing IS so tenacious OF lie
W
sHtial abuse.
| I, 'TseIish Press continues TO pro
nd ibs Censors continue 10 give
az 10 the protests. Wig then
IA you expect them 20 be moved
=, nat criticisms Of the American
~ The Times lately pointed out
more that the Censors are DONG
~,7, injury 10 the Allied cause IN
-r;,sj States. but 20 consldera--
!, N hat kind the censOriai MIND
-. sppear TO be open. The Ad-
~ does not seem 70 think that IL
~ whether It's statements are be
n A. disbeleved The group OF
,,,,s who contro. these matters,
a. Bsvsl and Mr.. Mckenna'
| /, byvsen them discredlted BRUSH
s,,i Rvs. ] do not myself believe
a rowiucly false statement mas
! w., made 20 the public by any
m or naval authority. But That
Z n. point. Rightly or wrongly
ybHe. both British and American
r,rv critical views Of their an
,a-ents. There is great lmpa-
u here as well as In America. Is
y n America the same impotence
ne Germans
M have the Germans done. not
l-ries only or mainly, but IN Ger
| n and the world over? They have
1,iisd their military lying, as they
hslr military crCelties, on a scale
!, colossal than ever before known
have gone about ), with scientlhe
ysrhness: with celebration; with
-ost patient and devilish ingenu-
ley lie with heart O. grace. They
~ They fabr.cate circumstantial
ants Of events which never nap
| d They deny the true statements
accounts officially put forth by the
Is They bride, nIslead, hood"lhh
deceive with elaboration the Jour
So or some Of them, whom they
tone 70 staff headquarters. lney
their defeats and call them VIC
Is The OUTPUT Of their lie-machlne
Is he best engines Of Krupp. They
s,t abroad over the world fictitious
,sarss Of Allied atrocities as
i'Esght 10 their own.
,.y oAcislly describe Scarborough
Ntiiby as fortified ports. wen
s1g they are not. They send BRIT
.ssroyers 10 the bottom which TO-
iN shOst and unIniured.
y do not multiply examples
e are thousands and thousands:
irov here about these variegated
facts Of the German Imagination
s.,e TIE English papers print the
al bulletins daily. as sent to and
cred by the Msrconi Agency. FOR
aosi part they print them without
acieling them; assuming That the
genee Of their readers Will do
.onlradle,ing; which is assuming
= ceal Then the Germans reprint
and reproduce their own tctlons
ler own papers as having been
ned IN the Times and as English
"ions.
isfeas, the English have at most
'lioiuy and ueedlossly suppressed
mey thought likely 20 have a bad
OF criticisms displeasiug 10 some
'ef or department Of the govern
o. mendacity there has been
Their methods have been clumsy
'loeent The German methods are
'e' Of guilt They have lied 20
e,Sn people and their own troops.
fave lied their own people and
INTO the belief that England be
ts wsr-a war into which she
'a obviously unprepared for mill
pefs'loas, while the Germans had
sstllng ready for forty years. The
I, aeet was ready and is Away