The Monroe journal. [volume] (Monroe, N.C.) 189?-1965, 1918-07-02
WILD STORIES OF AMERICANS
FED To HUNS BY ITS PRESS

FED To HUNS BY ITS PRESS
American Defeats" Fill the German
Press, And Leaders Try Ia Per-
siiade Masses That War VIII Be
Won Before the Americans Get
There. Which, They Say. Will BE
1919 or 1920.
\ cyril BROWN. Correspondent OF
New York World.)
Amsterdam, July 1.-The great
mass OF public opinion in Germany
continues TO be haunted by the
thought of America as an increasing
ly serious military factor. and the
home propaganda is being conducted
accordingly. American defeats" are
not fully mentioned with increasing
frequency in the German official COM
I muniques. but the most elaborate
and inspired detailed accounts of
American defeats" are being foisted
on the German Press.
A semiofficial statement seeks to
7 re-assure the public. which now full
ly realizes that huge American ar
my is fighting in France. by argu-
ing:
How heavy are the bloody losses
10 the Entente during the month
/ offensive is apparent from the fact
that American regiments. in ever in
/ creasing extent, are being used TO
/ fill in the yawning gaps in the Eng
lish-French line in the course of their
I useless c0unter-attacks. The incom-
4 pletely trained Americans have had to
/ bear unusually heavy blood sacrifices.
I The expected American reinforce
ments will in the first line. serve only
4 to replace the American losses.
The idea of the highest military
authorities obviously is to deceive
their people into believing that the
! American Army in France has reach
ed and passed its maximum strength
/ The uneasy German interest in Amer
4 lea is indicated by the fact that Dr.
George Bartheime. former Washing
I ton correspondent of the Cologne
/ Gazette. lecturing on America in the
4 in Berlin.
1 As a sample OF the unbelievable
/ dope" about America that the Ger
mans will eargerly swallow, DR..
I Barthelma told his hearers that So
/ 100000 Americans were pro-German
4 $4,000. 900. including l3.000,000 me-
/ groes. were at least neutral. and only
/ $4,000 900 were on the side of the
Allies He treasured his German au-
dience by saying Gen. Wood had de-
clared America was unprepared for
the war. He added that even if
America had an army of 100000 it
would take l0.0O0,000 Of ships to get
it to Europe. and said
For this reason we will not have
any fear of America before 1919 or
1920 The English know it too. and
by then the war will be decided"
As a part of a systematic home
propaganda which appears to be
working at high pressure just now
must be regarded a sensational story
put out semi-ofticially, according to
which two German sailors who were
deserters. alleged to have worked for
1.-The enemy intelligence service in
Copenhagen. were arrested in Germa-
ny and made full confession includ
ing this statement:
THE English were paying pre-
MUM of a million marks (about
S250,000 nominal value) FOR an at
tempt on the life of the Kaiser. Five
hundred thousand marks (about
s125,000 nominal value) for the
sinking of submarine. Three hun
dred thousand marks (about $4,000 |
nominal valuel for dynamiting Ger
man shipyards or bridges, and fifty
thousand marks (about s12,50O |
nominal value) for causing German
mutinies or strikes. An English col
onel in the English consulate general
read us these premiums from print
ed list"