ENEMY CARTOONISTS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12284, 5 April 1918, Page 4

ENEMY CARTOONISTS.

Germany Strikes Back. The German General Staff has found a, new held for its activities, It has long been troubled with the conviction that foreign cartoonists are injuring Germany’s standing in the world by portraying the horrible things that fch’o German troops have been doing, fhe General Staff thinks that something must be done to counteract the evil; and it has' determined that enemy cartoons shall be met and demolished bv German cartoons. Through the Wolff News Agency at Berlin, comes fhe following document: “The Imperial and Royal Propaganda Department, Section of Foreign Affairs, calls the editor’s attention to the practice of the enemy Press in caricaturing the Kaiser, the Crown Prince, IJiiidenburg and 1 alleged German militarism, with the evident intention of an odious anti-German propaganda. Not with this, the caricaturist* of the Allied enemies carry on a campaign of presumed atrocities, the murder of women and children by the German army. The effect of that pernicious propaganda instilled day by day into the masses in the Allied countries is incontrovertible, the stories of atrocities being accompanied by pictures. It would, therefore, be important from the patriotic point of view for the daily newspapers also to occupy themselves by means-of caricatures with the principal events of the day. “The idea of such propaganda has been conceived by the supreme military command, nnd it is therefore desirable that all should conform to it. Tho official kiuonia has been ordered bv the supreme command to enter into olrect communication with the daily press, #iirl many leading newspapers have hastened to express their readiness to innert these patriotic caricatures, for the drawing of which the sendees of tin* best artists in Munich and Berlin have been secured. These caricatures will regard chiefly the heads of state of tho Entente Powers, their political leaders nnd those who make no mystery of their hatred for Germany. The blocks wili bo supplied free of expense.”'.