Evening star., 1918-04-07
BERLIN KULTUR|S
Shown IN LEAFLETS
Tons of Literature Flood
trenches at Front Aimed at
Morale of Troops.
ALSO TO SPUR ON B0CHES
(Correspondence of The Sunday Star
and the Chicago Daily News.)

(Correspondence of The Sunday Star
and the Chicago Daily News.)
LONDON, March 19.-Germany's cam
paien to improve the morale Of her own
troops. to impair the morale Of the allied
Of the British, French and Italian people
to win clean peace proceeds with un-
sxampled vigor. Leaflets of lectures
painting a roseate picture Of Germany's
victories and a still more roseate picture
Of what Germany intends to achieve in
the future, are the order OF the day among
the kaiser's armies on the western front
Leaflets Of German authorship flood the
British trenches.
Surrender and end this terrible war"
is the burden Of the Teutonic appeal to
Tommy. Tommy's answer is a roar Of
laughter. He gets more fun out Of
FritLs literary efforts than he has got
out Of anything else since he waved good
bye to Blighty.
Hindenburg and Ludendorf think It q
clever Accomplishment to smuggle Ger
man leaflets into the British trenches
and rest camps. 1t is nothing OF the
kind.
Effort Amuses the Tommies.
In this matter the enemy is given a
free hand. He not only reveals to
Tommy how wild are the notions that
can find room in the German brain. but
he supplies the Britiah armies with in
comparable entertainment.
Having bombed British towns includ-
ing the capital Unfortunately
throughout the war without any other
effect than hardening the will of the
British to smash system that author
ICES such savagery, Hunland is now
pursuing like policy as regards Paris.
German bombs on that city are inter-
preted here as speaking thus:
See. you French folk. what British
attacks on German towns are bringing
on you? Call on your perniciously ac-
tive allies across the channel; they are
engaged in shattering German architec-
ture and shedding blood. II hundred
British bombing planes attack us we
shall attack Paris at night with 200, 500
or more. We shall continue to assail
you unless you stop the British or have
the good sense to surrender"
British Martial Spirit Refreshed.
Britons feel that they well know what
effect these characteristic Hun methods
will have on the great warlike nation Of
France. They know what the effect was
here and also the effect of battle cruisers
and boats shelling coast towns and of the
dropping Of bombs by Zeppelins and
Gothas, inventing the murder in every cir
cumstance of horror Of hundreds Of wom-
en- and children. They know that this
effect was only to dissipate war weariness
and refresh martial enthusiasm. If Ger
many had kept her bloody hands Off Brit
ish -combatants 1t would have saved
her the cost of incalculable tons of leaflets
in her peace offensive.
The crashing Of timber and masonry
and the roar of enemy shells and
bombs employed against British civilians
have done a vast deal to drown the voice
Of the pacifist in this country. What re-
manned audible Of the pacifst cry has
been entirely smothered by the shout of
Indignation against Germany's gouges into
PROSTATE Russia.
The French reaction to German bombs
and German conquests is expected to be
like that of the British