New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-03
German Press in u. S.. Breeds
Trouble with Disloyal Articles
Feature Reports From Berlin and Suppress or Deny London
and Paris News, Declares Loyal American
of German Birth

body" Like other German-language
papers, the "Illinois Staats-Zeitung
has at other times Informed its read
ers that England will have been forced
on her knees by the u boats and the
war decided in favor of Germany by
the middle Of next year at the latest.
The report that American staff Off
GERS who had returned from France
had called the German Western battle
front impregnable was dated July "a
and denied by Secretary Of War Baker
on the following day. But nevertheless
the "Illinois Staats-Zeitung" based its
editorial in its edition of July rs on a
report that had been officially branded
as false three days before, when Sec
rotary Baker said:
1.-THE returning officers were full OF
enthusiasm over the ability of the Brit
ish forces TO make Roadway against
their enemies"
OF the greater New York German
language papers not one mentioned, In
its news columns, the denial of the
Secretary of War, although il had been
made before the original untrue story
had been printed by any German morn
ing paper in this country. At least two
German morning papers published in
New York, the "New-Yorker Herold''
and the "New-Yorker Stats -Zeitung,
are subscribers to the service of The
Associated Press that carried the de-
NAL on the evening Of July %.
On July 26 the "Abendblatt" of the
"New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung" took a
fling at Secretary Baker in the follow
ing editorial:
Secretary Of War Baker denies the
news published first by The New York
World that American officers who
have recently returned from Europe
have stated that the German lines could
not be broken through. The denial
says: The German lines are not un-
conquerable,' and concludes thus: The
delegation came back without any pes
simistic opinion whatever There are
dementies which, as negations, have a
stronger effect than the denied conten-
ton"
The same German-language press
that unscrupulously sneers at every
thing American does not hesitate 10
protest in the most vehement forms
against every attempt to call the atten-
tion of the public 10 the shameful con-
duct of the Germans in Belgium or
Northern France, TO the ruthless Lusi-
tania murder and other acts of char
acteristic Prussianism. The facts them
selves cannot be denied; but the Ger
man-Americans don't want TO be re-
minded OF them. And the German-lan-
guage press, which conducts a system
attic campaign of calumny and SANDER
against the United States and her al
lies, is up in arms against the film THE
Little American"
The "Deutsche Zeitung," of Portland,
Ore, published an article by Robert
II. Jonas, who as convinced that the
picture is produced for purpose, and
that is an un-American one" Mr..
Jonas expects terrible consequences for
the country If the film is not put under
the ban by the public authorities. The
result of the production of The Little
American" will be, according to Mr..
Jonas, ito create internal dissension
and to destroy or at least to disrupt
that unity OF purpose in America which
Is essential to a successful conduct or
the war"
While the German-language press
complains about the treatment it is
accorded by the newspapers published
in the yernacular, 1t does not hesitate
to accuse the American people OF
Islander. Complains "The Colorado
Herold," of Denver:
1--WE are unable TO effectively infu-
ence the present conditions, which have
been totally put out of order by the
war, or TO stem the wheel of calumny
that trundles over us every Day
The "Illinois Staats-Zeitung" asks
the man-Americans to boycott the
newspapers printed in English, and the
"Germania," OF Milwaukee, fights the
proposition to place restrictions on the
German-language press, and has the
efrontery TO add:
Furthermore, some (German-lan-
guage papers, should receive recog-
milton for what they have recently
done TO further the interests OF the
country, especially in the big cities,
where they have made acquainted the
exclusively German speaking popula'
ton with the new duties imposed upon
them by the war; Many (German-lan-
guagc) newspapers have essentially
helped to maintain peace and order by
asking that German speaking) part OF
the population TO do their new duties.
And that was certainly OF great value"
And indeed the German-language
papers receive recognition, golden
recognition that is paid out Of the
pockets of American taxpayers, many
Of whom will be manned or killed by
the bullets of the Kaiser, whose cause
is so consistently promoted by the Ger
man-language sheets. In most Of the
big and in many Of the smaller cities
the official advertisements are pub
lished In the German-langusge papers.
The "Westliche Post" Of St. Louis,
published last week even the official
minutes Of meeting Of the City Coun-
ell, and gets paid for nearly five col
nuns.
Although the scandal of publishing