The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-10-20
Friday, October 20, 1916.
UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTH

reports as passed by the British
censor but insisted on rewriting and
changing the matter
Some Of the papers served by other
news gathering corporations have
been inclined to rub it into the Inter
national fer getting kicked out Of
England but after reading both side
it looks largely as though the press
association owned by Mr. Hearst has
been refused privileges in Great Brit
ain chiefly because it has told too
much truth that British officials
wanted suppressed.
The following are few paragraphs
from the Hearst side Of the contro-
versy:
When Namur fel, before German at
tack the English people were not al
lowed TO know OF it. The lnterna
tional News published it in the Hearst
and other papers twenty-four hours
before any other paper published it,
anu AAlt lANNo llilNANt OetN II " i-iiaAaiiN
On October 6. two years ago, the
international News Service stated def
|nitely-the statement being based up
on accurate nformatiCn--that Ant
werp would TALL within a week" Three
days later the Germans took the city
The English did not Ike that. 1t Of
tends them TO have anybody think that
England can fail.
This was particularly offensive to
England because its policy at that
time was, Let the French and Others
be killed while we talk"
On October IL 1914. the Intena-
tional News Service announced the
capture Of Ostend by the Germans
forty-eight hours ahead OF all other
newspapers The English Govern
meut OF course. knew about OstenG,
but di1 not care 10 have Others know
1t. That was anC Their black mark
against the international News for &C
curate aad prompt news.tehing
IN November OF 1914 the British ST.
perdreadnought Aldacious was sunk
by q German submarine Oh the north.
enlmost point OF Ireland The Brit
ish did not intend that England OF
anybody else fhCald know CT this Il
il could be avoided. The Information
Al News printed the facts 'Toity-6ight
hours ahead o. any other publication
and sent out for distribution an actua
photograph Of the sinking OF the Au
dacious, the photograph being taken
from the steamer Alymic. which wit
messed the sinking OF the Audacious
and the news being sent through the
News by man On the
Olympic.
OF Englands ally Russia We have
also told the truth.
We pointed out the distressing fact |
hat intelligent, free France was fight |
ing with England TO increase the pow
3r OF Russian brutality. We expressed |
our hope that every foot of soil taken |
iom Russia by Germany would re |
main German, and therefore see nc |
more OF wholesale murder. based on |
religious hatred and commercial |
jealousy.
We made It clear that England
while denouncing Turkish brutality
or years and weeping crocodile tears
over murdered Armenians, had been
,arell to keep the Turk in power in
Ionstantinople in order to keep Russia
)uS
Why there isn't any news that
caches America by British mails or
.ables that has not first been distort
ID or Garbled or Falsihed by the Brit
e. M ~ nd |
The American, with its countless
Iublic and private means CT informa
ion which are employed without re-
gard to cost, and which are located |
n every country in the world, ought
o know, and does know, more about |
he real conditions in Europe and the
cal happenings OF the past two years
n Europe than any private individual |
possibly can know.
And with that knowledge, we say to
'ou, private Americans, that no people |
yer were so humbugged by press
gency as you have been by the Brit
sh official and secret press agencies
md that no such stream OF misrepre |
fiction and downright false
lood was ever poured out by any press |
propaganda as the huge food Of false
ICED with which the British official |
nd secret press agencies have mum
lated this country for two years past
Md we shall now and here prove this
Indictment up to the hilt
What are the general views most
requently exploited by the British
,cyernments newspaper organs in
his country and held by the great
mass Of oven intelligent Americans?
They ale that Germany had secretly |
uilt up great standing army, super
Or in numbers to the armies of its
eighbcrs,<b by forced universal military
that with this superior army
iermany suddenly made war upon
France Russia and Eng
and that the unprepared French arm
rs were beaten back in the first few
ieeks OF fighting and were almost
saved by the help of tire
british army, which rallied at the
iarne and defeated Won Kluck; that
fter two years of heroic resistance by"
rench and British trOoDs in the west,