The Delta independent., 1917-05-25
The Truth at All Times.


about the success of the German
U-boats.
Now let it go a bit further and tell
the whole truth about what our allies
have accomplished in their present
spring drive.
The London dispatches have lied to
the American public about the accom-
plishments of Generals Haig and Nj
velle just little bit more than they
did about Germany's invasion of Bel
gium in 1914.
To read the press accounts Of the
engagements on the west front. since
the United Statse declared the recog-
milton of state of war with Germany,
was to believe that the Kaiser's forces
were being captured and slaughtered
to an extent that meant the allies
upon German soil within another
month
Yet here is Capt. Lionel Corking of
the French commission. now on these
shores, addressing the New York
Times correspondent in these words:
"The allies do not expect to be able
to drive the Germans out of France
this summer, but they will keep on
pounding all the time, day and night.
They may not even recapture st.
Quentin, which may perhaps sound
strange to those Americans who have
been reading the glorious accounts of
the French and British victories on the
Somme.
''The loss of life on the Part Of the
allies on the western front has been
very heavy, and the wounded brought
in to the Paris hospitals were mostly
suffering from shrapnel and machine
gun wounds, poison gas and shell
shock. We see very few rifle bullet
marks"
The truth of the matter is that the
latest spring drive of the Anylo-French
forces has been infinitely more dis
astrous to them than to the Germans.
The slaughter has been simply un-
speakable, yet the allies have gained
nothing of consequence that the Ger
mans were not prepared to concede II
the ultimate price was paid
In spite of all 1.-The glorious accounts
of the French and British victories on
the Somme." the Teuton line still
holds. What did the British press
fakirs hope to gain by flooding Ameri-
ca with reports that Temporarily arous-
ed the belief that the Germans we're
being whipped back to the Rhine
Would not the inspiration Of Ameri-
can recruiting have been better served
by telling the truth, by telling how
the French and British armies in
being led into hopeless butchery by
the systematically retreatiDg Ger
mans?
On par with this military taking
have been the tales OF GermCny's pres
ence on the brink OF a May revolt;
of strikes that undermined the stabil-
ity Of the empire, of rebellion that
threatens the continuance Of the Prus-
sian house.
The American people do not care
a snap about the Hohenzollerns, or
about the imperial constitution Of Ger
many, but they do care a whole lot
about the honesty and real ability OF
the news that is dished up to them.
That news, ever since the German
wireless was put out of commiss' on
has been vitiated by the constan, in
lection of British lies; If not purveyed
by London, then by Amsterdam or
Geneva.
The American people are in this
war to fight 1t through But If they
are to do that. they do not care to be
desperate allies across the sea. They
want to know the truth they want to
be told about Germany's western front.
about Germany's internal stability.
just as they have finally beer tol | the
truth about the increasing succe.. of
Germany's submarine warfare.
In this enlightened age, no Justly
fighting people cares to be, or needs
to be, spurred on by false and dis
paraging reports of their enemies
They want and can endure the truth,
and knowing 1t, they will rende,. the
better service.-From the Milwaukee
Free Press.