Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1916-11-28
BERESFORD DENOUNCES ENG
IISH CENSORSHIP


We have repeatedly printed proof
that the English censorship does not
permit the people of Great Britain
to learn the truth about the war
situations, and that English official
news agencies and press bureaus
have steadily misrepresented and
falsifed conditions in the reports
they send to America
Here is more frst-hand evidence:
A few weeks ago Miss Emily Hob
house, sister OF Lord Hobhouse,
niece of distinguished member OF
Parliament and loyal English
woman, made journey to Belgium.
To her astonishment, she did not
find the terrible conditions she went
prepared to see
Being q very honest English
woman, Miss Hobhouse wrote to the
editor Of the London Times that
there had been nothing Ike the de-
vastation In Belgium which she saw
inflicted by British forces in the
Boer War; and that, as q matter OF
fact the German military authorities
were doing their best TO keep the
people employed and sheltered,
clothed and fed. She added that she
was most surprised TO find that in
many Belgian towns the people. and
the Gcrlnan soldiers were on the best
OF terms.
For publishing what she saw with
her own eyes Miss Hobhouse was
arrested and imprisoned the moment
she returned to England.
Evidently English fair play" does
not include speaking the truth, or
permitting the truth to be spoken,
about an enemy II the truth is at all
creditablc to that enemy.
But in spite Of this perverted no.
ton Of 'fair play" truth, like MUIR
der, Will out. On tho morning Of
November 20 the New York Amer
lean printed Miss Hobhousc's own
statement of what she saw in Ger
many ana her declaration that Great
Britain alone Is responsible for
continuation of the war.
And this statement was supplied to
the American by the International
News Service, which was barred from
Great Britain because il insisted on
circulating the truth.
Another example:
Ever since Mr. Wilson interfered
to limit Germany's submarine war
fare upon British commerce, the
English Admiralty has told the Eng
lish people that the German sub
marine warfare had decreased be-
cause the English naval officials had
found q darkly secret method of de-
stroying submarines. You have all
read that statement, in different
forms, over and over again.
Now, hear what Lord Beresford,
England's lighting admiral, had to
Gov it, at,It mt
Government was forced to admit that
the food shortage in England was so
acute that the country would have
to be put on ration basis, with food
tickets and restricted purchases as is
done in Germany
Both Baron Sydenham and Lord
Beresford declared in the House or
Lords that the food shortage was due
to the destruction of British ships by
the ceaseless activities Of the German
submarines, and that tho Govern
ment had deliberately deceived the
people by false reports and by sup
preston of ktNR truth. And Lord
ut Is time for plain
speaking ir yscrious crisis at
which the country has arrived,
because the House of Commons
and the newspapers have been
muzzied by the most autocratic
Government since the time Of
Pharaoh"
So you see. Englishmen Of the best
and most fiercely loyal tyne arc
angrily bearing witness to the abb
solute truth Of The Americans fire.
quent assertions THAI the British
censorship has done nothing else
since the beginning of the war but
falsify the news, garble the news,
distort the news or suppress the
news in order to keep their own peo-
pie and the peoples pf neutral coun-
tries ignorant of the truth. and to
poison the minds of neutral peoples
with the most monstrous tales OF
enemy cruelty and sayagery.-n ninety
nine in a hundred Of which have
been pure falsehood.
When this war is over and you
folks learn how grossly you have
been deceived bv the English censor
ship and the English press propa-
ganda. and the paid and subsidized
American newspaper agents of that
propaganda, you are going to feel
rather ashamed Of the way you were
taken in and your sympathies played
upon bv what is undoubtedly the
most industrious, productive and un-
scrupulouss organization Of enthusi-
astic press-liars ever got together un-
der the sun.
THOSE BELGIAN DEPORTATIONS.
Belgium is Cor was) an English
fortress. The King OF Belgium is u
pupDet in the hands of Great Brit
ain. These things are undeniable.
In fact, they are no longer denied.
Belgium and unlimited Submarine
Warelare are the chief attractions in
John Bulls Punch and Judy Snow.
Whenever Great Britain is in trouble,
whenever the United States bethinks
herself OF her neutral righta avon