CARICATURES—BY ORDER
The ponderous thoroughness of tho Ger-. man mind was never better exhibited than in an official document that has reaohed the Berner Bund. This was communicated to the German press by tha official Wolff News Bureau in Berlin, and is a circular issued from Supreme Military Headquarters, and suggests a oampaign by caricature. The naive document runs: —
"Tho Imperial and Royal Propaganda Department; Section of Foreign Affairs, oaiis the editor's attention to the practice of the enemy press in caricaturing tho Kaiser, the Crown Prince, Hindenburg, and alleged German militarism, with tho evident lnteatiop of en. odious anti-Ger-man propaganda. Not satisfied with this, the caricaturists of the Allied enemies carry on a. campaign of presumed atrocities, the murder of women and children by the_ German army. The effect of that pernioious propaganda instilled day by day into the masses in tho Allied countries is incontrovertible, the stories of atrocities being accompanied: by pictures. It would, therefore, be important, from the patriotic point of view, for the daily papers also to occupy themselves by means of 'caricatures with the prinoipal events, of the .day. .
"The -idea of such propaganda, has beea conceived by_ the. Supreme Military Command, and it is therefore desirable that all should conform to it. The official cinema has been ordered by the Supremo Command to enter into direct communication with the daily press, and many leading newspaper* have hastened to express their readiness to insert these patriotic . caricatures, for the drawing . ol which the services of the best artists in Munich and Berlin have been seaured. These caricatures will regard chiefly tho heads of State of tho Entente Powers, their political leaders, and those who make no mystery of their hatred for Germany. The military reverses of our enemies and their internal dissensions will bo exposed, and our own victories will bo extolled. The blooks will be supplied free of oxpenso."
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Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 23, 26 January 1918, Page 10
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316CARICATURES—BY ORDER Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 23, 26 January 1918, Page 10
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