Arizona republican., 1917-11-11

"rioting" that is fravely meDacing the established order in Italy.
 With America's entry into the war the agencies went a step farther and rendered another important service to Germany, for some of them began to send, both to Switzerland and to Ger many, distorted news from the United States Again and again the reliable. the genuinely Swiss journals, issued denials or published the correct news. The first effect was not to be corrected by later stories.
 The general trend of this American news concerns the embargo and Amer ica's intentions toward Switzerland. Every story in a list that would fill scrap book tended to show that the United States had the intention of starving its little sister republic. Not even an announcement by Switzer- lands president that from authentic reports he knew food was underway or soon to start could offset the effect of the first stories. And they had meantime gone to Germany and were followed by sympathetic editorials In German papers popular here commits eratine with Switzerland in it's strug- gle against Yankee oppression.
 A third propaganda method which began early to operate and still flour ,sheg. is tha tof Literature" that is distributed by the ton. Switzerland is flooded with it, and the protests that have been raised have come in 8 sur prising number of cases from German Switzerland. The procedure is "echt Deutsch." It is one that has been fol- lowed in Holland, in Scandinavia. fin all the neutral countries since the be- ginning war.
 Vastly effective and clever has been the austrian propaganda in Switzerland. Shortly after the open ing of the war two influential and clever newspapermen-onea an Austrian from Vienna, the other Hungarian from Budapest-both Of whom oper- ated news bureaus in their respective cities. were commissioned by the Austro- Hungarian government to es- tablish seemingly neutral bureau in Zurich that should have connections fin other neutral as well as enemy
 
 send in the ordinary. German brand of "propaganda" news.
 The bureau was successful and is today. It established connections in Holland, in Rome and elsewhere, and is able to place comparatively large quantity of news which is the more effective because it is not too obviously Austrian in character. It encourages the rather lively sympathy that exists for Austria and will always carry a story tending to show that Austro- Hungary is not really an autocratic monarchy, but rather a collection of free peoples voluntarily bound together into one nation and fighting brayely an uphill battle that was not of their choosing.
 The effect of the Germano Austrian press propaganda is a curious contra diction. The German tends to alien ate, the latter attracts. The German campaign for many months was, de- spite its unwelcome features, success ful for the simple reason that there was almost no counter propaganda. The Swiss papers, much as they want ed to present both sides, and to be primarily pro-Swiss, had little choice but to print much of what came from the German press agents because there was nothing else but the official re- ports from the warning countries.
 The genuinely Swiss papers in Ger man Switzerland protested in vain. The mails continued to be choked with Literature" and the wires with news from the eight or nine German and Austrian news bureaus, Those