ALLIED PROPAGANDA.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14894, 17 October 1918, Page 2

ALLIED PROPAGANDA.

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center's correspondent at Copenhagen says that Hinden'burg has issued a proclamation warning the' Germans against "insane rumours" circulated by tlie Allies. "We are," it says, "strong enough to beat the enemy in the west despite the Americans, but we must beware of poisoned pamphlets." The proclamation concludes by appealing to the army to defend their; German homes. It is a long and remarkable document. It attempts to discount the reproductions dropped by aeroplanes of war prisoners' original letters, describing tlicir well-being, and thankino- God m exceptional cases, for decent and humane treatment by English prison camp commanders. Tho proclamation engages in efforts to counteract tho effects of leaflets, I which it is stated were dropped from aeroplanes m thousands of copies Tl?e proclamation abounds with references! to the poisonousness" of the Allies' j propaganda, «^nd winds up by saying: Whoever is England's ally dies in con-1 sequence"; It also states that 84,0001 of uhe Allies' leaflets were collected on tho v.-c«t front in May, 120,000 in Juno and 800,000 in July/: 'Man^thSr S-let-s wero sent home by the soldiers and circulated in Germany, with the re^ suit that -'thousands imbibed the poisou, and their resolve and hope of victory was thereby removed." Ueuter's correspondent at Amsterdam, says that Hindonburg and Luden-aoi-a, interviewed for the Austrian paper*, declared that Germany hitherto '-XJ >nl % Ui ' bittor" str^Kle honouraDly. iiu) Central armies were merely Kiiarfhng-their homos. "We will tor our enemies by the annihilation of' their arms," they commented. j According to Renter's correspondent «t j aris it transpires that French airmen have been carrying intelligence aKent? into Gormany. 'These men^ivorel picked np and brought back by aero-' panes when their mission was'accom-! phshed. i