New-York tribune., 1917-07-27
Propaganda Resembles That
Which Caused Disaster
in Russia
Slur Nations Allies
Print Tales of English Perhdy
and French Defeat in
Their Columns
(By loyal American of German origin)

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guage press is engaged in systematic
campaign of unfriendlness to the
United States and of open hostility TO
our allies. The most popular form Of
this treachery is overt and direct at
tacks upon our allies.
The same kind Of pro-German propa-
ganda was carried on in northeastern
Europe with so terrible results to Rus
sia. In the newspapers that indulge
their feelings by doing all they think
safe to prevent accord against Germany
there is to be found always a strong
undercurrent of hatred against Great
Britain that finds expression in Ger
many.
Saws the "New-Yorker Herold" of how
England fills up the ranks Of the blue
blooded":
"Well, let US see what the system is.
Twice year there appears in the press
what is known as the honors list. This
list is supposed to include only those
whose eminent services entitle them to
be raised TO rank above their fellow
men, and to be known henceforth as
peer, baronet or knight. 1t is custom
cry, also, to attach to each name
short biographical notice, to insure that
the public shall not be left in doubt as
TO the reason for this distinction. Now,
the temptation to be held superior IN
rank to ones fellow man is admittedly
A formidable one, and should there be
offered a shorter cut TO its realization
than the somewhat iaborious and often
unrewarded process of merely deserv-
ing this honor, who would be able TO
withstand it? And if this shorter cut
takes the form of a purely cash trans
action, who is the other party to this
transaction"
Prints Nothing Harmful to Kaiser
It cannot be said that the "Herold"
prints interesting news OF this char
acter wherever it finds 1t, without any
consideration whom it hurts. When
Berlin and other newspapers published
in Germany said in 1914 that the
Kaiser and other princes Of Germany
were the benehciaries Of the "order
and title traffic." the New Yorker Her
old" did not take notice Of this
certainly most interesting bit of news.
The "New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung
sails in the same boat as the "Herold."
That is true not only Of the Timely
Topics" that appear every day over
the signature of Bernard H. Ridder,
but of the whole of the "Great German
Daily"
In one edition the "Staats-Zeitung'
carried four articles, "The Shame Of
the Rumanians,' an the French Thea
tre Of War;" "News from Africa" and
"Varied War Chronicle from Ger
many"
"The Shame Of the Rumanians," by
Max Osborne, correspondent of the
Cologne Gazette" reads in part:
"The sound of the name (of the con-
vent of Vacaresti) drives the blood to
nv head. There German civil prison
ers, except the oldest, were dragged
to the military prison, the women. at
first, imprisoned in disorderly hotel
within the city, to be transferred after
q while to the state prison that is
located outside the city,
Slurs American Minister
After having stated that there was
change for the better on November 81,
when the German civil war prisoners
were brought back to Bucharest and
lodged in the Grand Hotel, the article
takes a fling at the American Minister
at Bucharest: "There (at the Grand
Hotel) appeared the American Minister
the women saw him for the first time
to whom was intrusted the protec-
ton of the German citizens in Ru-
mania. He never had been seen at
Vacaresti.
"Ihe place (Vacaresti where harm
less people were kept in undeserved,
shameful custody is one Of the most
grandiose places Of Rumanian art end
culture. Shops for the prison
ers are now established in the base
ment, where the housekeeping rooms
Of the convent were located. The pr:s.
oners, in blue and white striped
blouses, were at work II. the carpen-
ter shop, the bakery and the printing
shop that have been established and af-
ford the prisoners certainly very
agreeable work"
To lay still more stress on the con-
trast between the terrible treatment
said to have been meted out TO the
German civil war prisoners by the
Rumanians and the friendly feelings
shown the Rumanians by the Ger
mans, the "Staats -Zeitung" carries on
the same page picture entitled "The
Barbarans in the Balkans" showing
smiling Prussian soldier playing
with Serbian or Montenegrin children.
Under the headline "News from
Africa" the readers Of the "Staa's-
Zeitung" are told about the "hair-rais-
ing treatment to which German prls-
oners, who have been transported 10
the extremely unhealthy French col
ony, Dahomey, are subjected" an
this country" the article says, "the
German prisoners are forced to do
hard work while they are watched by
brutal negroes. Inhuman treatment,
lashes, imprisonment and every kind
of torture are everyday occurrences.
French officers don't even themselves
desist from taking part in them
Tries to Brighten Americans
The "Staats-Zeitung," under the cap
tion "Varied Chronicle from Ger
many" says that the Canadians (four
divisions) have been slaughtered by
the effective fire Of the German artil-