MORE GERMAN PLOTS.
NEW 1 . "DBFBATISr.' CAMPAIGN IN
FRANCE.
\ PARIS, Feb. 20. In no way dismayed by th'o.' fate which has 'befallen 8010 and other German agents, Germany has begun a new "dofeatist"'^ campaign m France. i There is reason to believe that tlio enemy has a small army of spies " and conspirators, camouflaged as "neutral commercial travellers," and provided " with apparently authentic papers. By way* of a beginning, they have circulated throughout tho workingclass suburb of Lyons large posters, printed on tricolor paper, and headed. "To the Barricades." " 1
; These posters, which are iiiteiided to incite the people to civil war, appeal to the French to insist on an immediate peace on the basis of Hid situation as 'it existed before the "war. Smiio _of the statements made 'in these productions are of, .a.psrfectly peurile character. One i:V to the effect that "M. Ribot drinks champagne eveiy day." , . The poster?, lthiis been discovered, havi> been printed by German firms located m Spain, ', and have r- been sent into Franco. .Hidden. '.in packing cases. j
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14593, 1 May 1918, Page 8
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