The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-06
Story Of Hum Censorship ShotUs Both Stupidity and
 Cunning m Ats Execution
Dr. Muehlon Former Director of Krupp Works, Make, Public Some Interesting Facts About Manner in
 Which German People Were Mised
Bv Associated Press

Berlin, March 11.-Revelations Of the stupidity and cunning ot German newspaper censorship which for more than four years obsessed 70,00O,VUc people with the hope of an impossible victory. hid from them the news of Prussian defeats and at last con tributed to the downfall of the struc- ture of pretence it had raised. are brought out here in remarkable pamphlet said to have been inspired by pr. Wilhelm Muehlon, formerly di- rector of the Krupp works, whose eX- pose of Germany in 1918 as the real 't- stigator of the war, sent him into vol untary exile in Switzerland.
 The pamphlet, entitled How We Were Lied To-" is published ostensibly under the name of Kurt Muehsam, former Austro- German war correspon- dent It is filled with instances of mil- itary duplicty. showing the efforts that were made to conceal from the German people everything of dis 4ouraging nature that had to do with &he war.
 Newspaper editors. according to the (document, were forbidden under dire penalties, to discuss any subject relat- ing to the war without the approval or hundreds of government censors op- erating through 21 newspaper bureaus and various branches of the govern ment The Lusitania sinking and the submarine controversy with the United States was so skillfully maneuvered in the press that for many months the people were led to believe that tue negotiations were taking "a course very favorable to us"
 REPORTED LANSING ILL
 Only such news was published as the xrrfr$ Er affect public opinion and to carry out this purpose, the pamphlet points out, all kinds of falsties were employed. Secretary Lansing, for instance, was reported as being i'll and on the verge of leaving office A hopeless breach was also said to have arisen between the American Secretary of State and President Wilson. These items ap- bearing in all of the German papers and bearing the apparent sanction Of the authorities were readily believed by the populace.
 pr. Muehlon who in his earlier reve- lations accused the then Emperor Will liam of having issued the order, 'take no more prisoners" points out the as- tonishing fact that not once in all Of the German war reports can be found any admission that the first battle of the Marne was a German defeat. The only thing that the German high com mand was able to report about that terrible reverse was disguised in the words: 'In the western theatre of the war the operations, details of which cannot yet be published. have led to a new battle which is developing favor ably. Reports spread by the enemy un- favorable to us, are false"
 The former head of the great muni- tion plant at Essen, who possessed complete information as to the opera tions of the military authorities here, declared that there was hardly a day during all the long war when the edi- torial offices of the German daily press were not 'honored by the re- ceipt of confidential communications, orders and prohibitions from the cen- sorship authorities, calculated to limit free expression of opinion on the most vital questions and ultimately to throttle it."
 The Germans, for instance, were never to be charged with conducting a ruth less U-boat war, but rather an "unlim- ited' or "boundless' war. Descriptions of devastation in France and Belgium were forbidden, and all references to bar barism and wanton destruction were ta- boo, with the significant expression: "The