The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-06-06
GERMAN GAS.
Huns Are Using II All Over This COun-
try. YOu Don't Want TO Help
Then Along.

by Harvey O'Higgins, Associate
Chairman, Committee on Public
Information, and deals with the
propaganda of the enemy in our
country.
WASHINGTON, June 2.-Mr.
Citizen, you are now on the fir
ing line. q
Imperial Germany is not mere
ly attacking on the western front.
She is attacking in every COM
munity in the United States.
Her assault is under the direc-
ton of the German general staff.
1t has been prepared as carefully
as the strategy and tactics of a
military drive. AS in Russia and
in Italy, so here also a campaign
of German propaganda-a gas
attack of poisonous lies and ru-
mors and false reports-has been
launched successfully and is now
under way.
The collapse of Russia was not
a victory for German arms. 1t
was a triumph of German propa-
ganda. And the defeat of the
Italian armies was achieved only
after German agents, working
with rumors, SANDERS, counter
felt newspapers, forged letters
and all the other weapons of
German treachery, had opened
an impregnable Italian position
to the successful assault of an in
ferior German force.
America is now the strongest
enemy that Germany has. A
weakening of our public morale
is as necessary to German sue
cess as the weakening of Russia
was. And the attempt to weak
en- US has already developed two
main lines of movement.
The first aims to destroy our
unity of action with our allies by
setting us against the French,
the British and the Japanese.
The second proposes to destroy
our domestic unity by encour-
aging among US every sort of
class dissension, religious. diff
ference, racial prejudice and
political quarrel.
The officials of the Red Cross
report that many loyal mothers
are refusing to let their daugh-
ters volunteer as nurses in France
because of rumors of immoral
conditions in the hospitals there.
A detailed story has been circu-
lated to the effect that 200 Red
Cross nurses have recently been
returned on a transport from
abroad and secretly removed to
maternity hospitals here as pa
tients.
There is not a word of truth
in the story. 1t has been investi-
gated by a federal grand jury
in New York City and found
to be false. German sympathi-
zers caught circulating it have
been interned. The nurses in
service in our hospitals in France
have the same discipline and pro-
lection that they have here-and
need it as little. The story has
been invented to hamper the
work of the Red Cross and to pre-
judice us against our French al
lies.
A similar aim is evident in the
reports of drunkenness and i'm
among our forces at the
front. These charges, most cir
made, were even
taken up by the national leaders
of our prohibition societies and
purity leagues, and an appeal
was sent out to the readers of
the religious press asking them
to protest to President Wilson.
The number of these protests
showed the success of the slander.
AS a matter of fact, no liquor
ration is served to our troops
either here or abroad. By Gener-
al Pershing's orders, our soldiers
in France are forbidden either
to buy or to accept as gifts from
the inhabitants" any alcoholic
beverages other than light wine
or beer"
Twins-a boy and girl came to
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