The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1918-10-04

line appears q huge nGure u
represent the English shipping facfli-
ties at the outbreak Of the war, which
bears these words: England went
into the war with twenty million gross
registered tons Of freight space"
Alongside this figure Of q ship 10 q
drawing designed I show Uncle Sam
carrying the Uaited States tonnage I'M
der his left arm. The caption above
Uncle Sam reads: 'Can America r.
place England on seal" On the ship
which Uncle Sam carries 10 printed
this inscription: Three million gross
registry TONS" and below that IL an
other inscription which says: AT the.
beginning Of the war America had on
~ a tonnage Of three million gross reg
istered tons" Commenting Of these.
statements, the poster further declares
America cannot increase her gross
registered tons for 1918 by more than
two to two and a half million TONS
Our U-boats sink twice as quickly as
England and America can buildg"
The answer Of the publicity bureau
to the two sections Of the poster refer
ring to the transportation Of men and
the building of ships follows: AT the
moment the bulletin boards Of Ger
many scoffed the possibility Of Amer
lea sending q force to France, there
were already more than q million fight
ing men overseas, and Transports.
walled about by the American navy de-
flying the cowardly submarines, were
bearing every month hundreds OF
thousands more. The gauge is set and
the summer OF 1919 will see 100000
fighting American men in France. Nor
will there be q lack Of ships to trans
port and sustain them. The Liberty
Bond buyer Is fast giving to America
a merchant marine that will be the
peer Of any in the world. America.
launched In July alone 6S5.O11 TONS
Losses to allied and neutral shipping
combined, from every cause. for the
last six months, amounted to 2,OS0, 394.:
tons.
1.-The distance from New York to
England. the Boche points out" COM
ments the bureau of publicity publi-
cation, rs two hundred times greater
than that from England to France
from which he spells Opportunity for
the German U-boats.' Pitiful is this:
boast in face Of the facts. Instead Of
the U-boat being an unconquerablee
engine of war. as the Hun confidently
expected, 1t has become the sinking
foe Of fishing smacks and other isO-
lated craft. The vast army of Liberty
Bond buyers, thirty millions strong.
has built an unbroken bridge over the
Atlantic e into the heart Of the
enemy's stronghOlds. Across this
bridge there are streaming u mil
lions Of fighting men, as good as the
world has ever known. munitions and
equipment that have been wrought by
those back home, whose determination
is that the American fighting man shah
lack nothing that he needs"
AS a back-handed slap at the French.
the German propagandists have repro
dnced a French poster which pleads
with French people to eat less in or
der that the United States may send
over more man power. The French
poster pointed out that II every per-
son In France would save a hundred
grams OF food q day that the American
achievements could be increased a
division a month. The French catch
line on this poster vas Does France
wheat or menu and the German
remarks ALSO the allies are
beginning to have their doubts!' ~
In a further effort to convince the
German people that It will be impos-
for the United States to trans
port troops to France, the German
Of the poster says that ten
tons Of freight space are required for
every soldier In crossing the water.
The truth Is that q soldier requires
less than one-half this amount OF
space.
Summing up all the falsehoods which
the German poster contains, the book
let says: 1.-The War Lord OF Ger
many may have the futile hope that
his people will devour In the place OF
food, such statements as the forego-
Ing. Falsehoods, however, are poor
and are likely to aggra-
rather than appease when the de-
|rded people Of Germany learn that
every requirement Of the American
will be met by his patriotic and
unqualified support back home. II
soldier required ten tons OF
space. II would be given him
the truth is he requires less than
Dne-half Of that.
"As for Germany's statement that
II the United Stntes built from
and a half million gross regis
tered tons In 1913, 1t would not mean
de~liverance for the allies, no further
Is needed than that by July
this year the 2,OOO,OOO-tOn mark
has been passed. II further refu-
tation Of the Hun boast OF his
U-bnat prOwess were needed. II might
be stated that less than 500 American
soldiers have lost their lives In the