HUN MAP OP AMERICA

Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 28, 1 February 1919, Page 10

HUN MAP OP AMERICA

FOUND IN A GERMAN SCHOOL BOOK. Germany lias captured all the United States and part of Canada. The 'conquest and occupation took place tenyears ago, all on the quiet, and unknown to any of the inhabitants. The Kaiser at the time admitted tha occupa- ! tion and subjection of this territory, andl 'issued maps for tha edification of the little Huns in tie public schools of the Fatherland, whose gullibility left them 'believing that ths select and rich parts of the world belonged "by divine right" to the German people, and all the reet was inhabited by swine and heathen. j But America has at last dome to the fall knowledge of its predicament by reference to page 5, map No. 1, of the Volksschul-Atlas yon C. Diercke (pub- | lie school atlas), used in' the schools of Germany ten years ago. As the youthful Hun struggled through his geography kssoh he became < "enlightened" about the , world. He know Germany, for Ke had seen the great pompous dignity of its Emperor reviewing the imperial troops. Germany was a reality to the child. But about the rest of the world. Bah! They were heathen and "lowbrows."

And then the teacher came to page 5 of the lesson, and then to map No. 1. It is entitled j'Vertollung der Mensehenrassen," or tne division of the human race. In great staring red1 ink the pupil was at once attracted to a vast area covering the whole of the. United States and almost half of Canada.

And across the whole was written the word "Germanen," meaning Germans. To the north was a strip of green, designating that there was the home of the "Nordaniericanische Indianer," meaning the North American Indians.

But the skilful art of lying, even in the face of an untruth, because they thought they could get away with it, led the authorities of Germany to step further, andl, behold, the race that gave to Germany the first knowledge of telephones and telegraphs, thd submarine and airplane, through American inventions, was transformed into "heathens."

Map No. 2 on page 5 shows the Western Hemisphere in another light~-that of the division of religions. Here the miracle of miracles is being worked, for m a heathen country German missionaries are battling the elements and savagery of a hideous race to plant the imperial ainS most holy flag of Germany upon ite soil, and to bring "Christian" enlightenment to their unholy souls. Across the face of the United1 States and: Canada dark shaded places are shown, with a footnote reading, "Gebiet deatecher Heid'enmissionen," meaning sphere of influence of German missionaries to ,the heathen.

Bnt most significant of all is the fact that these are the first maps shown of countries in the atlas. With the thought of the might of the Geranan Einpir*, its great extent of territory, and its right to whatever it pleases it to have, th« pupil goes on studying about this great old world1, with Germany the centre of all kufcnr.

"Those maps are significant," said the owner of the atlas. "They show tho dosigns of the German race. To be the great 'I am' was their only thought, and they already considered, ten years ago, that America was theirs. They inwardly chuckled to themselves that so many Germans were welcomed to America, ''for they were thinking of the day when they should rise in arms and takethe country. They had in mind the aftermath of the great worldl war victory for Germany."—Rocky Mountain News.