Show REVEALS FOES DIRE STRAITS serman poster porter reproduced by bureau of publicity proof of shattered morale of enemy A po poter poster ter recently issued by the imperial german government in oil an effort to belittle the participation of 0 america in the war and thus strengthen the lie morale of her people form the text test ot of one of 0 the most stil stalking king pieces ot of literature ahat the bur bureau leall of publicity of the war loan organization has pre prepared parel tor for use in tile the forthcoming fourth liberty loan the center of the poster la Is devoted to a drawing showing new york city on one side of the atlantic and Is tre on the other side probably somewhere in france two sinking linking vessels are shown in the lane of t travel between new york anil and france ranee while in the offing are two U J boats securely afloat opportunity tor for the german U boats is the catch line for tills this section of the poster the rhe lane of travel in which the boats ire are sinking bears this inscription am america arica eu europe rope distance times dreater than from england to france mainland in a corner of this section of the poster are shown the names df at serbia montenegro italy rou manla russia and belgium they are lined up la in the order named under another other exploding figure representative of t the european war and the names ot of all the countries except italy are crossed out indicating that they have been eliminated from the struggle by the the title ot of the file poster Is can americas entry slake make a decision of the W war a r integral sections of it to convince the render reader that americas Amerl cat army cannot take the place ot rus withdrawn forces that the united states cannot build enough ships to have any effect on the result ot of the war and that the U boats will destroy virtually all the ships that america can build when those ships attempt to cross the ocean two millions of the booklets have be been 1 en printed and 1 l ill be distributed in various parts of the country particularly ticul arly in theaters where liberty loan speakers take the book as their text every effort lu Is made in the wording and the illustrations ot of the poster to ridicule e tile the efforts ot of tile the in minimize I 1 n imide and united states in the nar ar A striking example ot of tills la is found in the figure ot of uncle saiu said wil who 0 Is pictured as a cadaverous individual who wears an american flag with alth nine hine stars stare and five stripes around his plug hat and smokes a long stemmed cob pipe lie he also appears to be wearing or dancing pumps the enormous flure figure ot of a russian soldier Is the first jobje object c t on the poster to strike the eye ile he stands stand with hands in his overcoat pockets indicative of tile the tact fact that he Is through gli reside beside litin him stands uncle sal sau a holding a small figure designed to represent the united states filfly lu ill his right hand in his left hand uncle sam carries a banner which bears th inscription america threatens too send transport of one halt half million men but it cannot ship chip them I 1 below uncle sam are these words it Is impossible for america to train ani fit out in time for the european war a suitable and sufficiently large army and provide it with the necessary re enforce ments the catch line of this section of the poster Is Rus sias army ot 0 millions could not down germany and on the sli skirt of the russian soldiers overcoat are printed these words Ilus ll ustIa sla used up lip altogether fifteen million men lit in valna on the opposite 0 of the poster porter Is tills this catch line En glands sea power and En glands merc mer hudt chaat marine liate have not dot decided the war below this line appears a huge figure intended to represent the shipping facilities at the outbreak of the lie war which bears these england went into the war with twenty million gross registered tons of freight space Alon alongside golde tills this figure of a ship Is a drawing designed to show chow uncle sam carrying the united states tonnage under liia his left arm the caption above uncle sam reads can america replace england on oil sea seal on the alp elila which uncle sam gain carries Is printed tills inscription three million TOSI registry tons and below that Is another inscription which says at tho the beginning of the war america had only a tonnage of three million gross registered tons commenting on these statements statement sp the poster further declares A america cannot increase her gross registered tons tor for 1918 by more tn than two to two and a halt half million tons our U boats sink twice as quickly as england and america can build the answer of the publicity bureau to the two sections of the poster porter referring to the transportation of wen men find and the building of ships follows at the moment the lie bulletin boards of germany scoffed the possibility of america sending a force forceno for ceto to france there were already more than a million milli on fighting men overseas and transports walled about by the american navy defying the cowardly submarines were hearing bearing every month hundreds of 0 thousands more the gauge Is A t and the summer of 1919 will see fighting american men in france nor will there be a lack of ships to transport and sustain them the liberty bond buyer Is fast giving to america n merchant marine that will be the peer of any in the vurl america launched in july alone a boll tons losses to allied and neutral shipping combined from every cause for the last six months amounted to tons tong tile alis distance front new york to england the boche points out coul comments the bureau of publicity publication Cil tion Is two hundred times greater than that from england to france from which he spells fur for the german U boats ill IllI if ful ul Is tills this boast in face of the facts instead of the U buat boat being an all ut conquerable engine of war as the confidently expected it has become the slinking foe of flailing smacks easl h sl other oilier isolated so craft the vast army of liberty ond buyers thirty millions million tt trong rong lias has built an unbroken bridge over the alie atlantic ocean into the llie heart ol of tile tiie ell enemas strongholds strong holds tills this bridge there are streaming our millions of lighting men as good as the world has ever known munitions and equipment that lime we been wrought by those back home whose determination Is that tle the american fight fighting lIng mail inan shall lack nothing that ho he needs As a backhanded back handed slap it at the french the german propagandists propagandist hale hae reproduced a french poster aich pleads with french people to eat less lit in order that the united states may send over more man mail power the french poster pointed out that lr it every per son in france would save a hundred grams of food a day that the lie american reinforcements could be increased a division a month the fre french nali catch line on oil this poster was does france want wheat or men and I 1 the german poster remarks also the allies are now beginning to lieve their doubts doubt sl in a further effort to convince the german people that it will be impossible for the united states to transport troops to france the lie german cerman section of the poster says that ten tons of 0 freight space are required for or every soldier in crossing the water the truth Is that a soldier bequir less than one half this amount of space Sl summing flimming up ull all the falsehoods vi which litch the german cerman poster contains t ue hp tik let says the war lord of u germany the futile hope that his people will devour in the place ot of food such statements as the foregoing falsehoods however are poor substitutes and are likely to aggra late ate rather than appease when the deluded people of germany learn that every requirement of the american soldier will be met by his patriotic and unqualified support back home it if a single soldier required ten tons of freight space it would be given g iven him hut but the truth Is he requires less than one halt half of that A for germanys germanas Germ anys statement that ven even c if the united states wilt hullt from two t vo and a half million gross registered tons in 1918 it would not mean for the allies no ni further comi comment tient Is needed than that by july the ton mark m irk of year inis has been been passed if further refu of the alun boast of his V 11 lont bont prowess were needed it might le tilled stated that loss legs than COO american solders have lost their llari livi in the present war as a result of U bont nt at 0 loing lo ing ibe booklet Is 1 this striking n from froin secretary SI Ble cAdoo Adoo thi the fourth 1114 i ty lonn 1 Is the lie bar hinr rai ralp liivi aall 11 II precede the victorious victor louP I 1 thrust nt t ous oui army |