Carrizozo outlook. [volume] (Carrizozo, N.M.) 1910-1945, 1918-10-11
on the oppoalte Ode Of the poster d

ties ut 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 a ship IL u
drawing designed TO show Uncle Sam
carrying the United Stnten tonnage un-
der his left arm. The caption above
Uncle Sum rcnds: Gan America re-
place England on scar On the ship
which Uncle sam carries Is printed
this inscription "Three million gross
registry TONS" and below that II an
other inscription which says: AZ the
beginning OF the war America had on
ly n tonnage Of three million gross reg
| istercd tons" Commenting on these
statements, the poster further declares
America cannot increase her gross
registered tons for 1913 by more than
two to two and n half million tons.
our U-bonts sink twice ms quickly as
England aud America can buildi"
The answer Of the Publicity bureau
TO the two sections Of the poster refer
ring 10 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 Il force to France, there
were already more thun n 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
lighting American men In France. Nor
will there be n lack Of ships to trims
port and sustain them. The Liberty
Bond buyer Is fast giving TO America
II merchant marine that will be the
peer of my In the world. America
launched In July alone G35,0l1 tons.
Losses 10 allied and neutral shipping
combined, from every cause, for the
last six months, amounted to 2,OS0,303
tons.
"The distance from New York to
England, the Boche points out" COM
ments the bureau of publicity publ
cation, "ls two hundred times greater
than that from England to France,
from which he spells Opportunity for
the German U-boats.' Pltiful Is this
boast In face of the facts. Instead Of
the U-bont being an un|conquerable
engine of war, as the Hun confidently
expected, II has become the Sinking
foe Of fishing smncks and other iso-
lated craft. The vast urmy Of Liberty
Bond buyers, thirty millions strong,
has built an unbroken bridge over the
Atlantic ocean into the heart OF the
encmy's strongholds. Across this
bridge there are streaming u mil
lions OF fighting men, as good us the
world has ever known, munitions and
equipment that have been wrought by
those back home, whose determination
is that the American fighting man shall
lack nothing that he needs
As n ~back-handed slap ut the French,
the German prOpagnndists have repro
duced a French poster which pleads
with French people to ent 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 n day that the American
achievements could be increased a
division n month. The French catch
line on this poster was "Does France
! want wheat or men7" and the German
poster remarks "Also the allies are
now beginning TO have their doubts -
In n further effort to convince the
|. German people that II will be impos-
. slble for the United States 10 trans
. port troops TO France, the German
section Of the poster says that ten
tons OF freight space are required for
7 every soldier In crossing the water
. The truth is that a soldier requires
! less than one-haif this amount OF
= space.
Summing up all the falsehoods which
the German poster contains, the book
+, let SAYS. "The War Lord OF Ger
! many may have the futile hope that
his people will devour I'm the place Of
q food, such statements as the forego
a ing. Falsehoods, however, are pool
. substitutes ana are likely TO nggra
vate rather than appease when the de
= ludcd people OF Germany learn tina
every requirement OF the Amerlcai
n soldier win be met by his patriotic ant
unqualified support hack home. II
h single soldier required ten ons o
freight space, II would be given him
/ But the truth Is he requires less thai
y onc-half Of that.
AS for G%ermany's statement tina
n even II the United States built iron
two and a half million gross regis
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