Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-11-05 | Page 17 | Balloons Spread Alarming Stories

BALLOONS SPREAD ALARMING STORIES BERLIN, Nov. 4. The French are again spreading stories behind the German Ger-man lines with the aid of toy balloons which they send up behind their lines when favorable wind promises to carry them far Into the interior of the German empire. Recently over 100 or these balloons bal-loons came down in different parts of Prussia. Hesse. Baden, Wuerttemherg and Bavaria. To each one of the balloons bal-loons 200 copies of the following message were attached: Germans, give up the ftght! Tour cause is lost! From the west the glorious French and British armies are fast approaching the Rhine. In Ihe east the Russians have smashed the lines of your troops. Austria is completely com-pletely out of the war and will sue for a separate peace within a few days. The Rumanians have conquered all of Transylvania and their southern army Is within a few miles of Sofia and the railroad to Constantinople. In Dobrudja the small force of Field Marshal von Mackensen has been crushed and captured. All of these disasters are kept from you by your lying government. Do not be deceived any longer, but open your eye.i, overthrow over-throw your rulers and surrender unconditionally. un-conditionally. The allies will then deal with you as leniently as possible.