STORIES OF GERMAN PRIVATION DENIED.
■ -• ■'■- .■■' .'-, ■*.- — - '.. .*» ■■ ■ • . .-' ■ OtAKLANDER IN FRANCE BRANDS TALES OF HUNGER AS TEUI'ON v PROPAGANDA. - . -OAKLAND '(U.S.), March 30. ' Storiea of economic hardships m Germany are'vbranded as propaganda m order td throw the Allies off their guard,, uccoi.ding/ to a "letter received by'^fc' 0. Lawrence r head of the Lawrence 'Warehouse Company, here ioday fromyH. A. Macßride, 'formerly traffic manager for Libb^-McNeil and Ljbby, and now with' the American expeditionary force ' m .France. , "If you could have, seen the immense packages of cigars, cigarettes, cakes, cheese, canned : goods arid fish, sent ;to the '- German pris-oners,j-ffrhbin I am .after, at Christmas time, by .friends' and relatives' m Germany," writes Macßride, "ypn wouldn't put much faith m the stories.' that the' country is starving." ' > According to Macßride, he is guarding 200 Austrian prisoners, parfc of 75;(XX>" captured by thei Serbians. He says : "Although the Austrian prisoners saem to be m sympathy with the Allies, the German prisoners', for the most part, are an arrogant lot.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14610, 21 May 1918, Page 3
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164STORIES OF GERMAN PRIVATION DENIED. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14610, 21 May 1918, Page 3
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