Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-12-11

At the very time Germany was
approaching President Wilson with
appeals for an armistice in October.
her propaganda agents were busy at
the front, ~endeavoring to split the
United States and England by Great
Ing discord among the allied armies.
The United States Shipping Board
has jtst received from an American
soldie attached to the Second Lam
cashire Fusiliers a copy OF a leafiet
dropped behind the British lines by
German aviators. in which the at
tempt Is made to SOW discord among
the allies by impugning Americas
motives in entering he war.
The pamphlet declares America
aims to control tho worlds commerce
and to ruin England; that she seeks
to become ruler of the world: that
only the United States has anything
to gain by continuing the war.
Nice things to say behind our
backs when Germany was asking for
peace to our faces said an official
of the Shipping Board.
The pamphlet dropped over the
British lines reads:
The American Peril
Have you read the Liverpool Jour-
nal of Commerce OF July 20? Well,
this PAPER publishes q leader under
the alarming heading. Our desper-
ate position" the following extract Of
which will Interest you: CONNER
cially our position is desperate. There
is no doubt about it. 1t is perfectly
plain that, unless something unex-
pected happens. we shall sink into
the position OF a second-rate power.
The blame for 1t is one the present
and Fast governments. who have ig-
nored, and are still fiouting, the COM
mercial community and its interests.
Government officials, when the mat
ter is put before them, will nearly al
ways end up by saying something of
this nature: We'll, after all, u first
business is to win the war, Is it not 2
1t is the business of the War Office
and the Admiralty to bring the war
to a satisfactory conclusion as o
as possible, but it is not legitimately
within their province to hamper COM
merce, with results they do not fore
see, but which are running our
chances of retaining our overseas
trade. The Americans are after 1t.
Read the report of the speech Of Mr..
Hurley in the issue of July Is. He
does not veil his proposals. America
is building her vast mercantile ma
rine-frst, to transport troops and
material for the war, and then to at
tach our trade in China, the East,
our colonies, Russia and South Amer
lea, and doubtless other places. Her
new lines of steamers are already
running to ports where the trade was
fostered by us n is by every right
ours.
All this brought about by the sup
ineness and Grass stupidity of our
ministers and their nominees. to whom
we pay princely salaries, and who are
giving us away. Does Mr.. Lloyd
George see that We are going to the
wall? Tt is doubtful. What is The
use of winning the war at the expense
of our and so that the
Americans collar IT? Are we to be
content with on 'entrepot' trade, our
marufa ctures killed by America; and
shall o,,l. l,v'r~ NJ - tirp IN NnnN nth-
ers' washing!' for that is all we shall
have left unless there is an alteration
Immediately. It will be surprising II
our people stand ii much longer"
So far the Journal OF Commerce. IL
hits the mark. Isn't 1t foolish TO stay
in this war for tho sole benefit or the
United States? II Is plain that Ameri-
ca won't be satisfied with Gefmany's
downfall. hut actually aims At con
trolling tho worlds commerce. she
points at Germany, but il ready 70 in
~cfdertaflv ruin England, too. IN fact,
she nrerarrs to suck the marrow out
of the whole of Eurone World DOM
inatior. thnt's what America is after!
An exhausted and IMPOVERISHED Eu-