The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1919-04-14
KEPT GERMANS FROM FACTS
 ON WAR

BERLIN. April lO- tCowcsron- dcncc of The Associated rrcss9-- Revelations of th, stupidity and cvo- ming of German newspaper censo shin which for more than four years obscsscd -oOOOO03 people with ,he hone Q, an impossible victory S.i from them -ac news @. prus~jau d"- fra.s aug go las. contributed Co ,ae downfall of ,lc structure ot Urc..n,' it had raised, arc prougb. out here {" rcmarsaDlo pamphlet said Co hav' been inspired by Dr. Wilhelm Nuon'- on, formerly director of the Kyup2- Works. whose expose of Germany 0 1918 a. the real iustigator of the war. sent him into voluntary exile in Swit@- crlaud
 The pamphlet entitled "How We Were Lied To-, Is published ostensibIy under the name of Kurt MUehsam ,a formc~ Austro-G .rman war correspon- dent. It is filled with instances or mil jtary dupljci,y showing the efforts that were made to conceal from tha German people everything of dis couraC.ng nature that had to do wjtA the war.
 Newspaper editors according to th' document, were forbidden under dne penalties to discuss any subject ralat- ing to the war without the approval of hundreds of government censorS opcr- ating through 2l newspaper burcara and various branches of the govern ment. The LuSitania sinking and th' submarine controversy with the Unit ed States was so ski''fuDy maneuvercd in the press tha, for many months n, people were lc3 to believe that tEs negotiations were taking "a course very favorable Co Us"
 Only such news was published as 'hH r''HtariSts thought would favola, ly affect public opinion and to carry out this purpose, the pamphlet points out all kinds of falsities were err- ployed Secretary Lansing, for instar- ce was reported aS being i'll and on the verge of leaving office. A hope less breach was also said to have arisen between the American Seclc- tary of State and President Wilson These items appearing in all of tha German papers and bearing the ap- parent sanction of the authorities wcvn readily believed by the populace.
 Dr, Muehlon who, in his earlier r2- velationS accused the then Emperor William of having issued the order "take no more prisoners" points out the astonishing fact that not once ;r all of the German war reports can D, found any admission that the first battle of the Marne was German de- feat. The only thing that the German High Command was able to report about that terrible reverse was dis guised in the words: "Iu the western theatre of the war the operations, de- tails of which cannot yet be published have led to a new battle which Is do- veloping favorably Reports spread by the enemy unfavorable to Us, are fdl- sc"
 The former head Of the great nun ition plant at Essen who possessed complete information as to the opera ''oES of the military authoritieS 1N.c declared that "there was hardly a dav during all the long war when the odi, torial offices Of the German daily press were not 'honored' by the re- ceipt of confidential communications orders and prohibitions from the ccr- SorShip authorities, calculated to lim- it free expression of opinion on the most vital questions and ultimatew to throttle it."
 The Germans for instance were never to be charged with conducting q ruthless" U-boat war but rather an