The Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1918-1919, 1919-05-08
How the Censorship Hid or FaIsi-
fled Facts Is Told in
Pamphlet.
TRUTH kept FROM PAPERS
Never Any Official Admission Of
Marine Defeat-Strikes and Food
Ills Kept Secret-America's Posi-
ton az Neutral Distorted.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of the Stupid
ity and cunning" of German newSpa
per censorship, which for more than
four Years filed 7O,OOO,O0O people with
the hope OF an impossible victory, hid
from them the news of defeats, and mt
last contributed to the downfall of the
structure of pretense it had raised are
brought out in a remarkable pamphlet
said to have been inspired by DR.. Will
helm Muellon, formerly director of
the Krupp works, whose expose of
Germany in 1918 as the real instiga-
tor of the war sent him into voluntary
exile in Switzerland.
The pamphlet, entitled. GLOW We
Were Lied To-" is published ostensi-
bly, under the name OF Kurt Muehsam,
former AnstrO- German war corre-
spondent. 1t is filed with instances
Of military duplicity, showing the eff
forts that were made to conceal from
the German people everything of a dis
couraging nature that had TO do with
the war.
Newspaper editors, according to the
document, We're forbidden, under dire
penalties, to discuss any subject re-
lating TO the war without the approval
of hundreds of government censOrS,
operating through II newspaper bu-
reauS and various branches of the gov
eminent. The Lusi1ania sinking and
the submarine controversy with the
United States were so unanswered in
the press that for months the people
were led to believe that the negotia-
lions were taking "a course very IA
vOrahle to u.s.
News Very Carefully Filtered.
Only such news was published as
the mlituriSts thought would favor
ably affect public opinion, and to carry
out this purpose, the pamphlet points
out, all kinds of falsilies were en-
ployed.
Secretary Lansing. for instance was
reported as i'll ana on the verge of
leaving Office. A hopeless breach was
also said to have arisen between the
secretary of state and President vii
son.
Doctor Muehlon, who in earlier rev.
Citations accused the then Emperor
William Of having issued the order
take no prisoners" points out the
fact that not once in all of the Ger
man war reports can be found any adj
mission that the first battle of the
Marine was a German defeat. The
only thing that the German high com
mand was able to report about that
reverse was disguised in these words
an the western theater of war the
operations. details of which cannot
vet be published, have led to a new
battle which is developing favorably.
Reports spread by the enemy unfavor-
able to us are false"
The former head of the munton
plant at Essen. who possessed com
plete information as to the operations
of the military authorities, said that
there was hardly day during all
the long war when the editorial Offices
of the German daily press We're not
'hOn0resr by the receipt of cOntidcn-
tial communications. orders and pro
hibitionS from the censorship authOri-
ties, calculated to limit free expires.
sion of opinion on the most vital ques
tons and ultimately to throttle it,
Mustn't Say "Ruthless U-Boat War;
The Germans, for instance, WERE
never to be charged with conducting
ruthless" U-hoat War. hut rather
an "unlinited' or "boundless" war
Descriptions Of devastation in France
and Belgium We're forbidden and III
references to barbarism and wantol
destruction were taboo, with the sig
when TO use force and when to be
mild" Details of the closing of fac
tories, coal and food shortages, poor