ANTI-BRITISH PAPERS

Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 48, 24 February 1917, Page 5

ANTI-BRITISH PAPERS

" ENGLISHMAN " LEADS THE

PROPAGANDA

THE PAN-GERMANS' LATEST IN-

VESTMENT.

BERNE, 22nd February. The Pan-German party has subscribed three million marks for the purchase of the Berliner Neueste Nachrichten and the Deutsche Zeitung, in which an antiBritish agitation will be conducted by Professor Schaefer and Mr. Houston Stewart Chamberlain. The German press is overjoyed at the fact that a born Englishman has accepted a lead in antiBritish propaganda.

[Houston Stewart Chamberlain, a man of 62, is one of the remarkable figures in German journalism. He is the son of a British Admiral, and was born in Southsea, England. The greater part of his life has been spent in Austria and Germany, as Who's Who and other works of reference explain, because he was unable to stand the English climate. He has long been a naturalised German, and married a daughter of the composer Wagner. He has distinguished himself by writing some extraordinary articles and books upon the high mission of Germany, and few men have been so vigorous as he in besmirching the name and distorting the history of Britain. Ho has in consequence enjoyed the high favour of ,-the Kaiser, and wears the civilian Iron Gross with the white ribbon. One of his recent efforts was to extol the German tongue as "God's language" and to urge that people who do not speak it should be regarded as "pariahs."]