The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-08-11
MAILING GERMAN LIES

MAILING GERMAN LIES
The committee on public information and the
military intelligence section busily engaged
in mailing the lies of German propogandists and
in trying to ascertain their source.
Among the last crop of falsehoods are the
following:
In New York City, it is reported that s'the
reason the government gives our soldiers, before
sailing for France, the opportunity of signing
their names to postcards informing their friends
that they have arrived safely overseas, is to
cover the sinking of American transports, which
is said to happen frequently with great loss of
life."
The pro-German who invented that story be-
trays touching disappointment, our troops have
recently been crossing the ocean at the rate of
100000 a week, without the loss of a single
transport Before going aboard ship the SOL
diers are allowed to write cards to friends and
relatives announcing their safe arrival on the
other side; the cards are held by the Post Office
utnil the War Department receives cable that
the ship is in an English or French port, and then
the cards mailed.
By that means the officers and men are saved
the expense of cabling and the cables
lieved of the burden of such messages, and the
delay is avoided that would result if the cards
were mailed in England or France.
the use of wheat" This is one of the daily Ger
they want, as there are no restrictions there on
man lies that being put out to hamper the
Food Administration. The Canadian Food
Board is enforcing in Canada the same measures
of food control that being enforced in this
country. The Canadians have gone further than
we in licensing retail grocers, hotels restaurants
and eating places, and in prescribing the quality
and amount of food that may be served at a
restaurant meal.
The pro-German ISLANDERS against our troops
in France have now reached Alaska. There, the
people are being told that American soldiers on
leave from the trenches permitted to contract
'morganatic marriages with French girls, which !
are automatically dissolved upon the soldier /
being called back to the front so that on his next
leave he is permitted to enter into another such
contract with another girl" The War Depart ]
ment reports: This is a thorough-going false
hood A great many fantastic stories come to us |
each day for authoritative denial, but there is |
scarcely any so totally lacking in foundation as |
this one concerning 'morganatic marriages" Ire !
Red Cross and Y. NJ c. A. agents returning from |
France continually bearing witness to the |
good moral conditions among our troops in |
France.
Washington, D. c., has suddenly been saturat-
ed with reports that there are number of re- |
turned American soldiers in the Walter Reed |
Hospital with their tongues cut out; that there |
are 20 Red Cross nurses in one ward who have |
had their hands cut off by the Germans that |
there are 1000 wounded soldiers being treated |
and 81 unclaimed bodies in the morgue and so |
forth. All these stories are false There are |
no nurses in any Washington hospitals who have |
had their hands cut off, and no soldiers with |
their tongues cut out. There are only rs |
wounded soldiers from overseas at the Walter |
Reed hospital. The War Department reports |
that all the wounded returned to this country do
not yet number 1000 and there are no unclaimed
bodies of dead soldiers in the morgue.
A determined attempt has been made by the |
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