Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-07-05
GERMAN NEWSPAPER
LIES
They Cannot be the Result Of
-. Ignoranee-It is Gov.
eminent Policy.
(From New York T1mes.)

tFrorn New York TtrneB.)
Every Misrepresentation that now
appears in the German press Is the
product not OF ignorance, but of a
carefully worked out line Of policy.
1t was not ignorance that impelied the
F~rankfurter Zeitung's returned Amer
ican correspondent. who certainly
that Marshal Joffre had an ice-cold
reception In the United States. It is
not ignorance which leads the Ger
4 papers to describe the Liberty
Loan as a failure, when 1t was oyers.
subscribed So per cent and taken by
four million subscribers-the mos.
fundamentally successful first roam
ever made by a government in war;
time. 1t is surely not ignorance
which causes the constant Federation
OF the fable that America will send
no army to Europe; that she is raising
1t to tight Japan, and is using the Ger
man war to blind that country; that
she Will SEND only hospital units to
Europe and keep her soldiers here IN
til she Is ready to launch them at nm
suspecting Japan.
II NOT Ignorance, what is it7 It is
not the individual opinion Of the
newspapers that print It.; It is their
disciplined obedience to the higher
power which, after anxious medita-
ton, 9 deliberately resolved on his
klno OF comment, as a military mea.
sure. Why this kind, instead Of some
otner! ecaus this calculated ms
representation will reasure and tram
qul!ize ne German people, for the
present, with regard to any danger RI
pc a~pprehended from America. rns
German government is not in the least
deceived, and it undoubtedly know.
that the time will arrive when its
cop cannot be deceived any longer
6ut II calculates coolly that The
Wratn OF the people when thew fesrn
the deception 10 Of much less imnnr,-
ancs IMAM h uneasiness which they
WOULD feel now II they knew the
fatn. And for this there is q aim NE
put cosent reason.
pie believe that the U-boat uas pe1;
bring peace, before the yea - WI WI
II Is necessary to hold before the Ca
nan people constantly the ienis fat,,s
81 an early and triumphant nsaca
MeanWilie n government Ia worIs"
1ns Ievertshiy to make it, nrnna;s.
500. ~ cannot permit dtsturhinp
uu'tls 20 ereak IN. It ts for ta1at reas
son Una II m~isrepresents to ia naon1a
.ns nature OF the British gains On ths
Afoilt' NOT that the Garman
people are 80 weak as to be unTnrusa
a. the mere news OF q British vicsoru
1ut hat it is essential to kaen sroy.
.nem n news Of a characfer ths4
m,snt arouse about the probabiitty Of
Iherefore. the German parars -
ahstrucsed to paint for their rasd ers
= Wholly Imaginary picture of' Arner.
.ca: america utterly Indifferent "a 4
war q largely hostile % IL: nobody
lanatical Wilson, who liz rnads viii
a ana to play q historic part: the
1Eait resisted, the loan q .faalure.
france befooled with prerniaea ~
stoops and getting only doctors rha
go mat such tactics are necesaarv
SHOWS the ~essentiaa. weaknesc Of Ger.
.many's military position; daspite All
appearances totthe contrary. 81 sncr,
2 time az q year ago 1t was not nae
sssary 9 the government to ia -
the people about important facts.-,;o
e them for military reasons, M y
tnem to prevent q collapse Of nnr,,,.u
commences which would endanrer tha
army and the throne. mat II ,vhas
= u doing now. and that is WV =