Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-05-10
FALSE" NEWS" SENT
BY BERLIN IN EFFORT
IL BOLSTER COURAGE
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The British radio the next day broad
sastcd the following The German
wireless ana German newspapers have
asserted that the former German liner
thr Naterland. now IN use as an Amer
iean transport had been torpcdocd
and sunk. The settlement Is false. The
Naturland has not been sunk The Nos-
sisVhc- -XcltunE SAYS that the Americans
had intended e. bring over "A dozen divi-
siOns IA the course of year IN this
ship II 81 the intention may be car
ripd out for the Natcrland is atioat
and IL IN the finest possible condition
Big british ship sunk.
Ii the Germans dId not know il he
fore. thcN know then that the report
was untrue II was In fact. the Justi-
eiu British vessel which had been
carrying American troops hat which
was returning en- PITY. with neither
troons nor cargo aboard. II was a big
shlp. S2.lgo tons, hut the Lcviathan
w4s over b5 eco tons.
The report that Il was sunk was only
onr 20 the thousand queer things we
heard from Berlin. For our radio or
orators listened in on the hg German
wirrless station at Nauen and heard
cVprythinE II sent out. IL seemed rather
uucannY, with Germany almost cut of
from the outside world. 70 sit here in
America and listen every night to what
they were talking about IN Berlin.
There was laid on my desk every
morning a daily newspaper suppose
Il was the only secret" daily ever got
ter out in AmcrSa--which. compiled
and mimeographed by the naval COM
munication service and marked conf
dental. was sent IN scaled envelopes
20 al officers and officials whose duties
compelled them % keep in touch with
ali that was going on abroad. And this
contained not only all the news" and
Yropaganda that Germany was sending
out. but q digest Of an chat was sent
out by the British French AMI Italians.
said Americans W ouldn't Fight.
We certainly heard some strange
news" from Borliu-things that were
news 10 u.s. pne report. received July
2b. 1918 when our troops were proving
their valor in Fochs great drive. in
formed us The American army is
lacking IN the one essential. the will 10
fght In any case. IL VIII not be
numerous enough 20 play any impor-
tant part until laso and then only pro-
vidcd the transport difficulty Is got over
aud the munitiou industry developed
from its pfcsrnt nursery stage. our
submarines viii 500 % the transports.
and America VIII hnd it impossible 10
create a gigantic industry and a giga.tic
army al the same time. Ammunition
.erhaus. hut gums cannot he cast in
S S, ng-machine factories. At present
ih. american soldiers are without either
rifles or ar illery."
Md AZ that moment there were a
million American soldiers in France and
Oe were turning out munitions at a rate
-, Germans could not believe was pos
-ihlc.
The more evident il was that U-boat
warfare had failed the moro vehement
,ere The German naval authorities in
t-~erting is success. Admiral HoIzen-
oarT head ~ the admiralty. announced
t4 July % that they We're taking into
consideration the counter measures
that meant the mine barrage. the
destroyers. patrol boats and all the new
things We were using TO defeat them;
that they were building many more
submarines and he declared that final
success Is guaranteed"
neriin Keeps Up Blum.
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