TaÌˆgliche Omaha tribuÌˆne. [volume] (Omaha, Nebr.) 1912-1926, 1915-02-13

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history and a Russian disaster OF
unparalleled magnitude.
IL may be imagined what kind
Of public opinion is formed when
the truth Is thus suppressed
Fake Pictures
war pictures" are published Of the
most ridiculous nature. One showed
the King Of Belgium in conference
with his General Staff" The picture
was one in rcalt Of the King OF
Belgium in times OF peace as the
guest of honor at a reception given
by German officers wearing, as the
picture showed, the Prussian uni
form. A decorative feature Of the
building was a German eagle over
the doorway.
Numerous pictures are published
oil Germans entrenched firing at the
enemy about 70 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
covering over his helmet SO that no
reflection will make his presence
known 10 the enemy.
Turkish lancers are shown leay-
ing Constantinople Tor the front, i'm
mediately following Turkeys declara-
ton Of war. These Turkish" soldiers
carry the maltese cross, and are in
realty Roumanian soldiers probably
returning from a vancouver.
A torpedo Don of a submarine
is illustrated which is in realty a
torpedo chamber OF a battleship.
A particularly sardonic example of
journalistic insult to public intel
ligence was the publication OF a
picture showing English soldiers un-
der which were captions to the ef-
feet that These are the great Eng
lish soldiers who continuously de-
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
soldiers who, due to their longer
legs, are continuously running away
from the Germans at top speed"
The formation OF public opinion
in the United States as well as
throughout 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 UNI
derstood by thinking people in this
country, to whom such undetermined
methods are naturally repellent.
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
French character for the world. On
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 a man was
transformed by DR.. Dillon and a
host Of lesser English into a simple
Christian hero.
Every one remembers the Eng
lish-told story Of the Japanese-Rus
sian war, that story drove us mad
with admiration for the Japanese,
England's allies; it 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 we served as England's
tool to help humiliate Russia by a
disastrous peace and hated the Japan
since the next day after the
was signed"
How the English Press Moulds
Opinion
During the Russo-Japanese war
the British system OF press misin-
formation fed up the newspapers
VI TIT olAltCA OldLGS pIO-J dpdllcsE |
We were consequently adj
our little brown brothers"
an admiration which was sensibly
cooled since the truth of the rela-
ton Of the United States and the
Japanese had dawned upon the pub
lie.
Now that Russia is an ally of
England, DR.. Eliot is trying to have
US believe that in the brief time
the m~assacres Of Kishinef,
Russian civilization has been so
improved that Russia may
be considered the torch
bearer of enlightenment.
Early in the present war this
country was flooded with reports of
m%istreatment alleged to have been
by Americans in Germany.
When the truth came through, these
were completely discredited.
Together with the reports of al
atrocities in Belgium it is
now realized by the American pub
lie that they were direct lies.
Irwin S. Cobb writes in the Satur-
day Evening Post: Some time back,
| wrote in an article Of the Saturday
Evening Post that ] had been able |
find in Belgium no direct proof
IF the m~utilation, the torturing and
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