Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-10-21
GERMAN BUNCoMBE.

a copy of America in Europe" four
| column newspaper printed in Ger
many. A headline prominently dis
| played across the top of page one in
| forms us that it is "a paper published
in the interest of good fellowship
among all nations" The paper, how
ever, is devoted to spreading German
propaganda and apparently was print
dc by the German military leaders for
| circulation among the troops of the
fatherland as well as those of the
allies, as it is full of lies, the well
known earmarks of the Huns.
One paragraph, headed THE Lusi-
tania Carried Explosives" reads as
follows:
1.-THE Aftonbladet in Stockholm re-
ports that in the suit which the sur
Nivlng passengers Of the Lusitania
brought against the Cunard line in
Liverpool proof was furnished that
aside of mun!tion the Lusitania car
ried a considerable quantity of explos-
ives. What will the authorities of the
port of New York have to say to the
fact that they permitted a boat with
such a cargo to take passengers on
board?"
We do not recall that this matter
was ever passed upon by an English
court. The case, however, came to
trial in New York last summer and
after a hearing which went into the
case from every angle the court found
that the Lusitania did NOT carry eX-
plosives, neither did she carry NUM-
tons, The court further held that
the German government, and not the
cunard line, was responsible for send
ing the vessel to the bottom and ex-
pressed the hope that satisfactory re-
marathon would be exacted Of Germany
when the peace pact was signed.
Germany of course, has contendeo
all along that the sinking of the Lusl-
tania was caused by an internal eX-
posion and not by a torpedo fired by
one Of her U-boats, and her constant
reiteration of this claim is merely
clever ruse adopted by the murderers
to throw suspicion onto others.
Under the heading THE Son-in-
laws War Aims" this gem appears;
"MacAdoo. the American secretary
of finance and son-in-law of President
Wilson. in a speech to railroad men
in El Paso. said the other day that
there was not room enough in the
world for both the American and the
German flag; the United States, he
added. according to the Wall street
Journal, would not lay down the
sword before the American flag was
waving over Berlin. To many of the
American soldiers in France this Will
be news, and they may begin to sur
mise that the job of whipping the
German colors off the face of the
earth is going to keep them from re-
turning home great deal longer thah
they thought when they embarked
for France"
Pride goeth before destruction ana
naughty spirit before a fall" The
boast of Germany, referred to above
was penned in August, and In Sixty
DAYS thereafter we find the morale
of the German troops broken, the Ger
man armies whipped to fragile ana
treking for Berlin and the German
militarists admitting they are nckeo
and sending up walls for peace. There
fore. in view of the fact that most of
the boys when they enlisted expected
the war to last three to five years,
it looks like they would be able %
| whip the German colors off the race
of the earth" in considerably less time
than they figured would be necessary
! at the outset.