The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1917-09-18
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The oesman minister to Mexico
reed not have burdened the wires
with q denial Of the charges made b.
state department, that the swedish
envoy al Mexico City had been used
az a ee-be,ween for the purpose OF
enabling the German minister 20 COM
manioate with The Berlin foreign Of
flee. German diplomats have pulled
ofg 80 much rough stuff during the
last few years. and have been caught
IN 20 many lies. that no American
wouIe have confidence in any dsrsrls
they might make. especially after our
wi government had stated that the
facts were thus and W. Washington ls
not In the haSit Of hn,chlng up the
plots and making public the details
thereof in an effort to cas-, dsscreaIt
on anyone as the German minister
claim- was done in his case.
n this had been the frs, time Ger.
many had been caught with the good a.
the American people might be in
clined TO take the Teu,onie minister's
vehement denial somewhat seriously.
but under the circumstances he b
going to get a mighty slim audience In
this country. A review Of some OF
the cases wherein Germany In known
to nave deliberately lied was publish
ed recently In the New York Nation.
and vas as follows:
-officiai Communications OF the
German government arc coming into
wide discredit abroad. owing 20 the
many ~self-evident contradictions in
them Who Rays this? An enemy of
Germany? An un-kultured Phiiis-
tine? No. Il Is a leader in the German
reiehstag. Herr Erzberger: and the
words. which made n deep impression
upon German minds. had particular
reference 90 the offer OF a separate
peace which Kerensky had said DER
many made 10 Russia. This was
ssmi-officiaily denied; but that did
not prevent general belief that Il was
true. II certainly shows the pass to
which things have come when q
prominent deputy can rise In the
reichstag 10 declare that even the Of
fetal utterances OF the government
are not 20 be trusted. Il Is a curious
fact that some OF the most damaging
proofs OF German official lies have
been furnished ~ Germans. There
was. for example. the impudent fic-
tion. embodied In the German decla-
ration OF war upon France. that
French airmen had dropped bomhs
upoa Nuremberg. But IL was from
the authorities in Nuremberg ltss 4
that the evidence came which showed
the whole thing TO be an unbiushinR
f~aisehood.
"other Germans are dealing viii
other German lies in the same n
A member Of the German general
staff. General Freytag-Loringhoven
has been publishing an article on tn
First Victories In the West He wal
loud IN praise 81 the Germen strateg,
which threw the French plans for mo.
Utilization into confusion. by marching
unexpectedly through Belgium. tn
ouestion 81 law or morality WAS no
considered by this German officer, bn
only the military a%stuteness az IN
violation OF Belgian neutrality. Gen
eral FreytaE-Loringhoyen II explioi
on the point thai the French hig'
command was taken completely b.
surprise. and that - was not unit
August %. 1914. thas the NTH nrm'
cot ~ far a. the line Louel~rharieroi
'4rhis article was published b. IN
Cologne Gazette. Yet the same Ger
man newspaper, IN the autumn o
1914. stated that the government ha'
information that on August ! tn
French had 10000 soldiers at Mat
heuse. asd az many more at Gives
ready 10 invade Germany by way o
Bclgium. That particular lie. pu
aboui 10 justlfy the Belgian outrage
Is thus neatly spiked on the helme
Of the unwilling General Frcyiae
Loringhoyen.
Further official German lies
whole series Of them--have had q
DO with Ansiria's uitlmatum to Serbia
and the conference In Berlin abou
that affair and the whole prospect al
war. ~hat the German government
did not know Of the Austrian ultl'
matum was asserted by the foreign Of.
flee. but was from the first fatty In
credible This was a uo 20 gross anc
palpsble that; Il deceived no one