HUN CAMOUFLAGE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14703, 7 September 1918, Page 3

HUN CAMOUFLAGE.

DELIBERATE DECEPTION OF THE PEOPLE. NEWSPAPER'S FRANK ADMISSIONS. (Reuter's Telegram.) AMSTERDAM, Sept. 5. The Cologne Gazette frankly admits that the German home front is weakened by want of reserves m France, aiid blames the Wolff Agency for letting the people : believe that the enemy would never recover from the blows m March and April. The people were thus buoyed up with false "hopes. Moreover, it oomplains that they were similarly misinformed as regards the efforts of submarinism and the peace with Russia and Rumania. It quotes a semi-official German telegram of April 16, announcing enormous captures of clothes m Russia, Italy, and m North France, and also representing that there was booty m rubber and copper sufficient for the German army for a year, and adds : "Can it be wondered that there should be disappointment and mistrust when we are asked to part with our clothes and door handles to cover urgent needs. Patience gets worn out by such camouflaging of the facts." After admitting that the Allied air attacks do produce the effects whioh the enemy intend, the writer proceeds tp admit that "despite the submarines we are not within measurable distance of so cutting off the < enemy's supplies as to render their means of subsistance as scarce as ours."