New-York tribune., 1918-11-08
Hun Propaganda
Seeks to Separate
u. S. and England
Germans Would Arouse
Trade Jealousy Between
the Two Countries
Hurley Gives Out Text
Distorted Passage From Liver
pool Paper Dropped Be-
hind British Lines
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(Srecni Dispatch TO Ihe snoh"s}
WASHINGTON, Nov. Hun propa-
ganda distributed recently behind the
British lines by German airmen under
takes to create q breach between Eng
land and the United States by telling
British soldiers this country is aiming
20 dominate world trade at the end OF
the war.
Comics of recent Hun poster
dropped by the Germans, received here
by Chairman Hurley of the United
States Shipping Board from an Ameri-
can intelligence officer in France. quote
THE Liverpool Journal of Commerce.
under the caption "The American
PERIL" in asserting the British com
rercial position is desperate by reason
of Americas coming great merchant
marine.
Following the quotations, so arranged
that only careful reading will distin-
guish it from the text Of the quoted
passages, the Hun poster advises:
Come to an understanding with Ger
many before it is too late. Only the
United States has something to gain by
continuing the war"
Hurley Gives Out Text
Chairman Hurley reiterated his for
mer statement of the righteousness OF
the Hun propaganda, and made public
the text Of the poster to demonstrate
The methods being used by the Germans
n what ne characterized as their
futile attempt to create a breach be-
-ween Great Britain and the United
States.' The Hun poster reads;
THE AMERICAN PERIL
Have you read The Liverpool Jour
mai of Commerce of July 20? Well, this
paper publishes leader under the
alarming heading: Our Desperate Posi-
tion,' the following extract of which
will interest you.
Commercially our position is des
perate. There is no doubt about it. 1t
perfectly plain that unless some
thing unexpected happens we shall sink
nto the position of a second-rate
l.
present and past governments, who
nave ignored, and are still flouting, tie
commercial community and its inter
ests.
Point Out Friction
Government officials, when the mat
-er is put before them. will nearly al
ways end up by saying something Of
this nature: swell. alter all, our frs.
business is to win the war, is it not %
1t is the business of the War Office
and the Admiralty to bring the war to
a satisfactory conclusion. as scon 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 it,
Read the report of Mr.. Hurley in
the issue of July IS. He does not
veil his proposals. America is build.
ing her vast mercantile marine-frst,
20 transport troops and materials for
the war and then to attach our trade
m CHINA. the East. our colonies, Rus
sla and South America, and doubtless
other places. Her new lines of steam
ers are already running to ports where
me trade was fOstered by us and is bv
every right ours. All this is brought
ABOUT by the supineness and Grass stu
pldlty or our ministers and their nomi-
Aees, to whom we pay princelv sal
'rles' ana VINO are giving US away.
Attacks Lloyd George
Does MIR. Lloyd Keorge see that ve
are ar, gong to the wall? 1t is doubtful.
nat is the use of winning the war at
me expense of our commerce. so that
me Americans collar it? Are we to be
content with an 'entreport" trade, our
manufacturers killed by American and
shall our living be taking in each
others' washing?" 1t will be surpr;sinc o
II our people stand it much longer
so FAR for The Journal of Com
merce 1t hits the mark. Isn't II
Foo'lsh TO- stay in this war for the sole
oeneht Of the United States? It is
plaln that America won't be satisfied
With Germany's downfall, but actuallv
aims at controlling the worlds com,
merce. She points at Germany. but is
ready incidentally to ruin England
zoo IN fact she prepares to suck the
marrow out of the whole of Europe,
word domination, that's what America
8 after An exhausted and impoyer-
shed Europe will make the Unite 4
States the ruler of the world. At anv
rate, after the war America will no ~
most powerful and pitiless comnet;tor
England ever had.
Therefore, come to an understand
lng. with Germany before it is too late
Only the United States has somethino
30 gain by continuing the war"