Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-08-21
'AN-GERMAN pHopA ;ANDA
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ihe Pan-Gerinan propaganda aim is
i"tce-lC4d. 10 control the home press
y" 'on'ro' opinion ia tn, arm. and
hh'i* TO Influence opinion throughout
'Ae world. Their own apers are OF
'ouFho wcil-known. But jusi a year
ago we heaFC that they were buying
~ ioca. iapers in Owe y -, ~n i'm Cor
many the number tina; have acquired
unknown. but 1t is said in Germany
DC yer! great They We also ac-
..fed :our OF the leading papere For
me time they have had financial CON
'"l 81 the Wcser Zetuus In June
lti', The Berlin I.okal An=eiger was
"HhSh b. Pan German syndicate
hose largest shareholder was the
russian Minister OF Agr!cul;ure Won
'"horiencr; the propr:c;ors valued the
fAper - $4,000 while TIN price paid.
"cofdiug TO dincren; accounts. was
ihcT $500. 900 or 100000
Last winter the semio r,cj,l Nara
deuisehe Aligemeinc Zeitung. the most
i|pcriant propaganda vehicle in Ger.
many! vas bought by Il nominee or
nc party. the Berlin publisher Herr
Reimar Hobbins. This man. who ma.
lad many monopolies in his Tim. mas
now been given the monopoly of All,
advertisements in the stations and
trains OF the Prussian state railways
which means the capture Of = rr..,
tract OF industrial territory for his
party: according TO the vossischo Zoi.
iunS, 1t would enable a turnover OF
Jaw material TO the value or over
100000 to be organized FINALLY.
. nj
agents OF the Fathcrland party yo,
sid OF Herr a. Skuhra. the dircc,or
of the Munchner Hcucztc Nachrichten.
under whose editorship this paper had
become one Of the most interesting and
independent in Germany. bu, had also
opposed the Pan German schemes Of
annexation The Beriner Tageb.a,,
spoke OF the 'symptomutic sicnln-
'oncc' of Skuhra's retirement: il is
opposed that his paper Will now work
ir accordance with Pan German views
Any day we may hear of further IN
ridents OF the kind The party has
also been active in Austria. There
beside lesser journals, a Pan-G ern,an
syndicate has purchased Die Zeit. OF
Vienna, the one important, paper i'm
the capital Except the Socialist Arbei-
Ter HeitunG), which had shown itself
capable of taking an independent line
Control of the home press will do
more than anything else to assist Pan
German propaganda in the army: for.
Of all peoples. Germans are most de-
pendent on their press. 4 vivid ac-
count of the reliance OF the German
troops in the trenches on their papers
was given by Lieutenant Elften in the
Nossischc ZcitunE of August l. 1917
Books and pamphlets do not reach ALL
the men, but the newspaper appeals TO
every single one: TO him. it is adviser
source of information. spiritual com
fortcr. the place to find the answer TO
al the problems Of life" This is one
reason why the Pan-Gcrmun funds
have been directed to acquiring local
rapers they are what the men read
they have also worked the trenches
With pamphlets and leaflets
,EisNu ENT CONDUCTS
PATRIOTIC PROPAGANDA
The German government. OF course
conducts Is patriotic propaganda i'm the
army. which is supposed to be non
political. though few believe this It's
relation to Pan-Germanism has been
debated more than once in the Reich
stag. and the government has never
given satisfactory reply to the de-
tailed charges that they favor the Pan
German propaganda. Their official view
IL that the Pan Germans are always
stealing a march on the government
and that the government disapprovcs
and stops 1t when they find II out
Most unfortunately. lehman, of Mu-
rich, the publisher of the famous Pan
German pamphlet Deutschlands Ku-
lunft (Which prophesied the downfall
q. Britain r. August |, 1910, issued
an advertisement showing that Il largo
quantity OF this pamphlet had been
bought by general headquarters: that
General Ludcndorff had had consid.