The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-02-08
tarists have to do Is to tell
the people that n thing Is
right and THAT ENDS IT.

f1Gnt ana THAT ENDo H.
The kaiser said the sinking of
the Lusitania was right and i'm
mediately II became right.
Hence, We find a clergyman, ID.
Baumgartner. on page seven, IN
"Leutsehe Reden in schwerer
Zeit," saying:
anyone who cannot bring
himself to approve from the
bottom Of his heart the sink
ing of the Lusitania, who cam
not conquer his sense of the
mOnstros cruelty to count
less perfectly innocent vic
Tins and give himself
up to honest JOY at this vic
tOrious exploit of German
defensive pOwer-such "a one
we deem no true German"
Under the spell of this mad
ness it has been easy for the kaiser
to weld the whole German people
into a compact force. with the
conquest of Europe, and the con-
quest of the world, as it's reasons
for existence.
He has fooled them into be-
lieving that he is the chosen of
The Almighty, that, in his hands,
they, too, are the instrument OF
The Almighty, and it is for the
good of the world that all creation
should come under German sway
THE GERMAN PEOPLE BE-
LIEVE TODAY THAT VERDUN
WAS A GERMAN VICTORY.
THEY BELIEVE THAT AMER
ICA is INCAPABLE OF EFFEC-
TIVE EFFORT IN THE WAR
HAVE NOT THE KAISER AND
HINDENBURG TOLD THEM SO?
One of the cheapest methods oil
fooling the German people is te
move British prisoners from one
camp to another, parading towns
en- route, and making the popu'
lace believe that the prisoners
have recently been taken.
A British officer in an in
ternment camp in Switzer-
land told me that by this sys-
TEN he had become familiar
with eight different prison
camps in Germany.
"Our group seemed to be the
chosen one for exhibition pur-
poses," said he.
There was about thousand o.
us, all taken in the latter part Of
1914. First We were held in
prison camp in Westphalia. II
1915 they began to move us
The moves always were made at
ter the people had been giveI
word of troop activity in the west
whenever the fighting wen
against the Germans and was i'm
portant enough to get into thu
communicates, we were move'
eastward a notch. At the frs
town of any size We would b.
taken off the train and parade'
thru the streets.
"In this way they kept us NOV
ing from camp to camp eastward
and then southeastward, till fin
ally We reached Mannheim, whicl
was the last Of the eight prison
I was in.
"Of course 1t was only Births
who were thus paraded. We wer
supposed to be the proof that tn
Germans were making headwa
in the west.
always our parades took plac
thru crowded streets. The Who'll
civilian population turned out t
see us. They would line the side
walks almost within touch of u:
calling us pig-dogs. and yelling
'Gott strafe England
| "Most of us had been wounded
and some of us were not yer
steady on our pins. Sometime
when such a one would lag he wa
helped back into line by swift
kick implanted by one of the me
from the crowd"
The government fools the
people in regard to German
| losses i'm the war. No one
Il except the military bosses Of
| Germany knows what Ger
many's losses are. The news
papers are not permitted to
print the names of the killed
and wounded.
After a battle the newspaper