The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1918-10-04

-, = cannot ship them" Below
10 Sam are these words: at is
in,nossible for America tn train and
=, mi in time for the European war n
',t,ohIe and sufficiently large army
aud urovidc il with the necessary re-
..,c,,rc.ments." The catchline of this
,.,o,ion of the poster Is "Russias army
III millions could not down Germany"
and an the skirt of the Russian sol
J,or,s oyercont are printed these
words. Russia used up altogether
nfteen million men In vain J"
ON the opposite side of the poster Is
this catchline: "England's sea power
and Englnnd's merchant marine have
mn, decided the war;" Below this
line appears II huge figure intended to
renresent the English shipping facili-
,,es nt the outbreak of the war, which
beors these words: England went
into tbe war with twenty million gross
ragusered tons of freight space"
Alongside this figure Of ship Is
drawing designed to show Uncle Sam
c,rrving the United States tonnage un-
der his left arm. The caption above
Uncle sam reads: Can America re-
MAGE England on sea?" On the ship
which Uncle Sam carries Is printed
This inscription: "Three million gross
repistry tons" and below that Is an
other inscription which says: AT the
beginning Of the war America had OH
" n tonnage of three million gross reg
,stered tons" Commenting on these
statements. the poster further declares
"America cannot increase her gross
registered tons for 1918 by more than
two 10 two and half million tons.
Our U-boats sink twice as quickly AZ
England and America can bulld!"
The answer of the publicity bureau
70 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 scotfed the possibility OF Amer
lea sending Il force To France, there
were already more than million fight
ing men overseas, and transports,
walled about by the American navy de-
fving the cowardly submarines, We're
bearing every month hundreds of
thousands more. The gauge Is set and
the summer Of 1919 will see 4,OO0OOO
fighting American men in France. Nor
will there he n lack of ships To trans
port and sustain them. The Liberty
Bond buyer is fast giving To America
merchant marine that will be the
peer of any in the world. America
launched in July alone 635,Oll tons.
Losses to allied and neutral shipping
combined. from every cause, for the
last six months, amounted to 2,0S9,393
tons.
THE distance from New York TO
England, the Boche points out" com
ments the bureau of publicity publ
cation, rs two hundred times greater
than that from England TO France.
from which he spells Opportunity for
the German C-boats.' Pitiful is this
boast in face of the facts. Instead of
the U-boat being an unconquerable
engine of war, as the Hun confidently
expected, it 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 ocean into the heart of the
enemy's stronghods. Across this
bridge there are streaming our 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 shall
lack nothing that he needs"
As back-handed slap at the French,
the German propagandists have repro
duced 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 IL every per-
son In France would save a hundred
grams of food a day that the American
reinforccments could be increased a
division month The French catch
line on this poster was "Does France
want wheat or men?" and the German
poster remarks ALSO the allies are
now beginning TO have their doubts 7"
In further effort to convince the
German people that 1t will be impos-
Sible for the United States to trans
port troops to France, the German
section of the poster says that ten
tons of freight space are required for
every soldier in crossing the water.
The truth is that soldier requires
less than one-half 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
MS people will devour in the place Of
iood, such statements as the forego-
ing. Falsehoods, however. are poor
substitutes and are likely to agra
waite rather than appease when the de-
iuded people OF Germany learn that
every requirement Of the American
n