ALLIED PROPAGANDA

Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13847, 6 November 1918, Page 6

ALLIED PROPAGANDA

IN EkEMY COUNTRIES

Tina following is a specimen leaflet, issued 'by Lord Northicliffe, Minister of Propaganda in Enemy Countries, which, is being distributed by balloon j amongst German soldiers: —■ a a.p. n. s r TO THE SOLDIERS WHO ARE 3. MARCHING TO THiE WEST. j I i Thou art alive 1 It is wond«irM. All that lives as wonderful, even the i> green grass and,the birds. I The dead and the mountains and 1 the soil and tihe (stones), they are i without sensation, for tihey hiave ao ) life. * We who have life have everything. ■ The mountains, the dead, the ground, ' have nothing, are notlhing I WttuLther { L art tihoiu making thy way, soldier ? I Goest thou to the West 1? Goest tlhou j ; towards Paris? | In front of thee, ag thou kinowest, ' ' are the English. To© French and.| Americans stand behind them. How ' ■ they shoot down thy coanjides in masses—even more and more of them —that knowest thou also. Percihiaaice ' they retreat a little way and then countless new troops of thy people .march forward to be .shot dtowm m turn. Then the Allies give way a littl© further. But the slaughter does not cease. In ever increasing ' nuanibers every day more Allies come to their support. The wjhole; world is against you. So long as yam go ' westward so long will you be sliaiugh-' tered. Powerful artillery is installed behind their lines, and is fir-.' ing day and night. You hear it yourselves. The Western front is fuE of powerful artillery. . j But there iei another thing to be ifound in th© West. I 1 will tell thee what that thing is. No man can. utter its woe, but there it siui-ely is in tihe West. Your grave lie® in the West. ,If , thou goest to the West thou wilt find it sooner or later. Ptei-chance it lie® far away beyond the mountains. Perchance it lies quite near thee, probably within the sight of thine eyesl To-day, this morning—no one can say—^but for sure it lies there —naure* as. that sun will set. Art thou marching, to the West, ! soldier. Then we all say to thee, "Farewell," All of ug that have life : stay to thee, "Farewell.'' . There are two things in tihe world —•Life and Death. The diffeirence 'between' these two things is* as, great as. between friend and foe, as great | as. between man and 'beast., It isi the i one ' great difference in. this world, j With the dead thou canst not form j friendship. Thou, canst not speak J with them, nor hear them speak, j Goest thou to the West, soldier? So say we to thee "Farewell," we who are endowed with life. Men and women, faithful dogs,' the birds: of the air, the inseqte— I:hey will be no more to you tihan today are the comrades who were yee- ' terday gtaot down. s But why art thou marching to the West? Because it is the will of the Kaiser! . But why i s it his will, soldier? i Thy'mother asks him a (boon), but he knows not what reply to give. The (boon) is not granted, and the ! hungry folk are fed on "victory" \ instead of food. i But in what does this "victory" consist? In marching over a. stricken, unfruitful, devastated land, mile" upon niile, desolate soil—soil like that , whereon thou dost "stand. : Is it "victory" they moititoer wants, I soldier? She only asks for daily ! bread. Wilt thou then march further to tihe West till thou dost reach they grave? . Thy Kaiser is behind thee, among the living. He has decorated with, his iron cross yon« Hind'eniburg, -thfe goldfeedecked. Ludendorff has gained the great crosis of the same order.. They are pleased with "victory." But thou—thou: marclhest to the West to thy grave. There It lies, as thou wilt see. Thy comrades, like thyself, hoped to escape it, but itawaited them sure enough. Soldier, farewell! To-day thou art i one of us, one among men. and woj men, and all living things. Thou, art master of stone and woods and all dead things. In. the morning thou m&rchest westward. Soldier, farewell! Hearest thou our mua-mur? ' Fare tihe well!