Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-07-11
HUN LIE SYSTEM
 EXCELS SPY SYSTEM
Deception Staff Has an Office on the
 Wilhelmstrasse But Is Most Sue cessful in Germany Only

| London, July l0.--The whole world 1 by this time has become pretty well acquainted with what is known as German "propaganda" but few know the inner workings of this system of spreading false stories and rumors, a system upon which the Kaiser and his crowd place great reliance as a part of their win-the- war progranI The system is not a war innovation, however For many years previous to the war it had been employed to spread German influence and extend German commerce over the greater part of the world In those days it might have been looked upon as a publicity department of the German government, and more CT less legiti- mate in it's methods and aims.
 But since the war began the sys- tenn has been employed for other pur- poses and has been developed into one of the most important hidden insti- tutions in the Fatherland. It's aim and purpose has been to strike the enemy behind it's back. Through the spreading of false "news" and ru- mors it has endeavored to stir up dis continent among the people of the allied nations, to deceive them as to the real issues of the war. and to des- troy their faith in the intentions of integrity of their statesmen. As a side issue the system has been employed, through the same methods of spread ing false reports, to deceive both the enemy and the German masses as to the true conditions existing in Ger many and the strength of the German arms.
 What may be called the great Ger man lie factory conducts it's opera tions in close utilization with the Ger man secret service. It has it's head quarters in the same building occu- pied bv the foreign office in the Will helmstrasse of Berlin. Here mil lions of lies are manufactured annual 1y At cost of hundreds of thous- ands of dollars they are spread over the earth. Through this bureau poli- tical crimes assume a new aspect. Germany is represented to be win ming, when she is losing prosperous when she is poverty stricken, while failures are made into successes, and eAC VI QCIl lS ulSCOI lCO SO CIldL CIllilSS take on new significance.
 The entry of the United States in. to the war necessitated renewed act ivities on the part of the great lie fac tory. For the past twelve months it has been working overtime in an en- deavor to ease the mind of the Ger man people as to the probable results of American intervention.
 The Germans have been told that there is only handful of American troops in France and that the trans port of an army of any proportions across the Atlantic will be an impos. sibility. They have been told that America has already lost scores of ships and thousands of soldiers by the sinking of the transport vessels or ! their way across the ocean.
 The recent appearance of a German submarine in the vicinity of the Am. erican coast has started the machin. cry of the lie factory running with renewed impetus. Through it's agency the German press has printed stories i of the havoc played with American coastwise shipping bv the German undersea craft. The submarines have been represented as pushing theil way boldly into the harbors of New York Boston and other American ports and destroying the shipping and bombarding the cities. The people liv ing along the seaboard have been rep resented as fleeing in terror to the Middle West.
 If the effusions of the lie factory were to be believed, New York sky scrapers have been toppled over. the American navy has been sunk Presi- dent Wilson has been assassinated the United States Army exists only on paper, and the entire country from Maine to California is at the mercy of the Germans.
 l From time to time the staff of the propaganda bureau changes. But it's object is ever the same. News is manufactured for home and foreign consumption, the people of Berlin are as successfully deluded from the of
 fices of the bureau as the denizens of | some native village in India