Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-10-04

and England's merchant marine have
not decided the war!'' Below this
line appears a huge figure intended to
represent the English shipping factli-
ties at 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 ship is
drawing designed to show Uncle Sam
carrying the United States tonnage I'M
der his left arm. The caption above
Uncle Sam reads: Can America re-
place England on seaF" On the ship
which Uncle Sam carries is printed
this inscription: '"Three million gross
registry tons," and below that is an
other inscription which says: cat the
beginning of the war America had on
ly a tonnage of three million gross reg.
istered TONS" Commenting on these
statements, the poster further declares
America cannot increase her gross
registered tons for 1918 by more than
two TO two and half million tons.
Our U-boats sink twice as quickly as
England and America can buildw
The answer Of the publicity bureau
to 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 scoffed the possibility of Amer
| lea sending a force to France, there
were already more than 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
| fighting American men in France. Nor
will there be lack of ships to trans
port and sustain them The Liberty
Bond buyer is fast giving to America
a merchant marine that will be the
| peer of any in the world. America
launched in July alone 635,011 tons.
| Losses to allied and neutral shipping
| combined, from every cause, for the
last six months, amounted to 2,0S9, 1893
| tons.
''The distance from New York to
England, the Boche points OUT COM
ments the bureau of publicity publi-
cation, sis two hundred times greater
than that from England to France,
from which he spells Opportunity for
the German U-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 unbrol1en bridge over the
Atlantic ocean into the heart of the
enemy's strongholds. 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 a 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 if every per
son in France would save a hundred
grams of food day that the American
reinforcements could be increased 8
division month. The French catch
line on this poster was docs France
want wheat or men?" and the German
poster remarks "Also the allies are
now beginning to have their doubts =
In a further effort to convince the
German people that it will be impos
sible for the United States to trans
port troops to France, the German
section of the poster says that ter
: tons of freight space are required fol
. every soldier in crossing the water
The truth is that a soldier require:
less than one-half this amount o
space.
l Summing up all the falsehoods whicl
the German poster contains, the book
/ | let says: "The War Lord of Ger
5 many may have the futile hope tha
his people will devour in the place o
|
! | ing. Falsehoods, however, are poo
: substitutes and are likely to aggra
y vate rather than appease when the de
r luded people of Germany learn tina
every requirement of the American
4 soldier will be met by his patriotic an
p unqualified support back home. If
h single soldier required ten tons o
: freight space, it would be given hin
h But the truth is he requires less tina
n one-half Of that.
0 "As for Germanys statement tha
n even if the United States built fror
e two and a half million gross regis
e tered tons in 1918, it would not mea
O deliverance for the allies, no furthe
|. comment is needed than that by Jul
v of this year the 2,0OO.O00-ton mar
S has been passed. If further ref
d tation of the Hun boast of hi
q U-boat prowess were needed, it migI
Y be stated that less than 500 America
) soldiers have lost their lives in I'll
IS present war as result of U-boat Il
V tackS.h
- Closing the booklet is this strikir
/ quotation from Secretary McAdoe
e THE Fourth Liberty loan is the ba
II rage which will precede the victoriol
thrust of our army"
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