The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-02-07
TEUTONS TRY TO GET THE SWISS
IN WAR THRU DELIBERATE LIES
lg what rhe wanted % swit.

4 10 getung what rnc want~o OF SNit
/ zerland.
Al this moment President Wilson
/ modified the embargo: food was as
rured Switzerland. and the crisis
{ passed
Germany did not win the use OF
/ the SWISS tunnels. but her propa'
| gandistH have not gone home. They
never despair. A time will yet come.
they believe.
troops with a newspaper. /, In print
ed in French and Is fun Of pictures
and stories about the war.
IL hints that England IL saving
I herself at the expense OF the French.
and that when peace Is declared. she
viii have most Of the gains and the
| French most OF the losses.
Needless 10 say. the propaganda
has borne no fruit. Az regularly
AS the newspapers come showering
down from the balloons upon the
French lines they are gathered into
, heaps and burned The French un-
I derstand perfectly that save for
[ England there would now be no
I France.
The Germans believe that the DIFF
fercncca in blood and nationality
among the allies cannot be over
come. Br1ton. Latin and Slay they
regard as an impossible combina-
ton. A British officer who had
been prisoner In Germany three
I years. and whom met In the in
I tcrnment camp In Switzerland. told
me how tests were made In an at.
I tempt TO establish this fact among
IN. prisoners.
They put English. Irish. Bel
gian. Russian. French and Serbians
all In the same prison." he raid.
When they assigned us TO our
places TO sleep. each prisoner was
surrounded with men of othc- M
tionaii,ies. whose language he could
not speak
They believed that this contact
would develop the racial differences
and would BE- an illustration OF the
insurmountabie difficulties in the
way Of unity among the allies.
Fortunately all Of us saw thru
this scheme from the beginning.
think we should have gotten along
very well together anyhow. but
knowing that we were under the
bell glass. We all put forth a special
effort At living in harmony.
II learned afterwards that
our Iailcrs were psychologists
from the various universities.
They hoped 10 he able 10 say TO
their kaiser that racial differ
enccs among the allies could not
/ be overcome and Ia offer rs
proof the quarrcls among the
prisoners"
| German intrigue was responsible
for the Italian defeat. Not that
| commanders or troops were bribed.
| Thousands of German agents.
planted" in Italy before the war.
and passing as Italians. were oper-
ating i'm Italy and among the troops.
spreading the idea that England and
France had met with reverscs in the
north. that America was concerned
only about England and France.
and that Italy was to be left to her
fate.
! Newspapers were printed in exact
facsimile OF Rome papers. and they
contained matter that seemed to
bear out stories being circulated by
the German spies.
III the French and British are
I concerned about us. why haven't
they given us cooperation" these
spies would say. And America has
not even declared war on her en-
envy. She is still at peace with Aus
tria. She does not care what hap
pens to the Italians"
The American Red Cross saved
J the day in Italy.
Major Murphy. at the head OF the