MORE NAZI FABLES.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 134, 18 March 1940, Page 8

MORE NAZI FABLES.

PROPAGANDA IN BALKANS

BRITAIN’S WEALTH DENIED

LONDON, February 7

Germans are using tho former Czech legation at Sofia, Bulgaria, from which to produce a daily news bulletin filled with fables against England. One such fable recently declared that Britain’s wealth was actually non-existent. The Bank of England was so poor that it could not pay its staff, and Britain was only a few days from bankruptcy. Another issue contradicted this story by alleging that America was indignant over Britain’s refusal to pay her war debts, although she had robbed tho world of its wealth and was storing it in the Bank of England, where the vaults were “crammed with gold.” All of this propaganda is designed to push Germany’s case in the Balkans and undermine that of England. A Swiss journalist alter a tour of the Reich says that the whole venom of Germany’s propaganda is concentrated on. England. The old expletive “Gott Strafe England” is heard again, but not the Hymn of Hate, because its composer, Lissauer, was a Jew. As indicating the rapid switch in propaganda methods, he mentions that a Communist released from concentration camp after four years decided upon a, gesture toward the Hitler regime as proof of his change of faith. On being released he shouted: “Down with Moscow!” and was immediately rearrested.