The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1919-04-10


a valuable ally With the enormous
masses of troops that We had to send
to Turkey" continues the pamphlet,
1T was pretty strong to suggest to
the press that the Turkish army re-
serve was adequate. 1t was delib-
liberate altering of the facts"
1t must be understood, writes Dr..
Muehlcn's collaboration, that all the
censorship regulations under which
the newspapers were operating we're
unknown to the people. The distor-
ton of facts was thus made for every
editor. He was encouraged to that,
Notwithstanding that the allies were
sinking German submarines as fast
as they could be built, 1.-The number
of new German u-boats is four times
greater than the losses. Our sub
mersible fleet has grown extraordina-
rily during the war. The press is
to picture the submarine warfare as
a means of shortening the struggle
and not as a measure of retaliation
or a weapon to starve our foes."
After months of deception in try
ing to convince the people that. Amer
lea would never enter the war, as
serts the Krupp director, when Presi-
dent Wilson sent his ultimatum, the
German press very readily executed
an "about face" and endeavored to
minimize the United States as posi-
BILE adversary Quoting from the
pamphlet: "The entry of America
would mean little from a naval
standpoint. Looked at from all an
giles, it would be possible for her to
use only a few torpedo boat Destroy
ers and a few small, slow cruisers
which might, perhaps, be used as
conveys. The United States has built
no armored cruisers, which are decis-
i've in maritime warfare. For the
transport of an army corps of 10000
men,. Is steamships of 1000 tons
each are necessary. For the trans
port of 100000 soldiers with nothing
but their marching equipment, 4O0,-
600 tons would be necessary for the
double trip"
Campaign Went On.
Even after the United States had
landed more than 100000 men in
France, Mr.. Muehlon declares, the
German papers continued their cam
paigns of falsity and delusion. The
diplomatic intercourse between Ger
many and the United States during
the two years preceding Americas
entry into the war is set forth in the
pamphlet with interesting references
to Count Won Bernstorff and his mill
tary naval attaches, Boy-Ed and Won
Papen, in Washington, 1t was CIV
en- out as established that the for
mer ambassador, and not DR.. Zim-
norman. the German foreign secre~
tary, had conducted the correspon-
dence with Heinrich Won Eckhardt,
former German minister in Mexico,
looking to an alliance between ia
pan, Germany and Mexico if the Uni
ted States entered the war. German
newspapers were cautioned never to
use the ''unfortunate expression 'zim-
norman letter." because it was be-
lieved this might lead to a severance
of diplomatic relations between Ber-
lin and Washington.
After the United States actually
had entered the war the censors per-
mitted such statements as "the dam
age to German ships lying in Am4erl-
can harbors has been carried out to
our satisfaction. For example, the
giant steamship Vaterland has been
made wholly unusable. Even the
sketches of the turbine construction
have been destroyed"
An interesting sidelight on the
psychological view the average Ger
man was permitted of the American
situation is shown by the following
summarization by DR.. Muehlon: AT
the beginning of the war America
was inimical to Germany. But this
situation was improved. After the
Lusitania things got worse again.
Then an improvement set in because
America had such cause for COM
plant against England. At the time
of the breach of diplomatic relations
the impression prevailed that the
people did not want war with Ger
many.
Autocracy Of Wilson.
"Wilson has more strongly auto
cratic position than any European
ruler. Since he is English in his up