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Show SCRAPS OF PAPER. Scraps or" paper are returning to plague the Huns. Propaganda has been falling from the air like snow. Leaflets, Leaf-lets, millions of them, are being scattered scat-tered from the skies bv the allies, and have caused so much unrest and bitterness bitter-ness among the German folk that on HinJenburg and HinUe are heading a propaganda to offset the effects of tho allied campaign. The Autro-lTerinan forces gained one of their most complete victories by the methods which are now used against them. Leaflets and counterfeit editions ; of Italian newspapers were scattered j behind the Roman lines, and so weak- j ened the morale of the soldiers that ; ther did not fight with their accustomed accus-tomed resolution. The Hun general staff has found that two ran play the game. Hindenburg, in addition to conducting defensive operations on the western front, is forced by the necessities of the situa- j tiou to conduct a defensive propaacdi against the al'ies. NaturallVj the allies are telling the Germans about the turn of the; tide against ?indenburg 's armies on the western front, and evidently the information infor-mation has had such a serious effect in dispiriting the Germans that the field marshal and the foreign minister deaa it necessary to make speehs and isjue state men ts in efforts to restore Teutonic Teu-tonic morale. Admiral von HmU, who ha. been around the world ainee the war beaa, I and who wad in Mexico and the United j States, has ben truing the people of j Vienna that in entente countries, if an editor or po.a.es the government he ii seat to pri-ron. At the same tim he felicitates the Germans upon having a free press. Editor Harden has bwn in jail or unir a ban muh of the time in the la.-.t four yors, and he is a living liv-ing refutation of the admiral '9 claim j that Gem. any hio a frc pr. .So, too, j 13 Liehkneht. Id this ro ir.try one e i:to- an 1 pi,'r I liher 13 und-'T indictment Ir. Hiirr.e-ly. Hiirr.e-ly. v.ho is aiTsed of buying a New York paper with the kaiar's cold, far as the United States is concern id, that is the only foundation for the admiral ad-miral 'g statement. The stps taken by Hindnb-irg and Hinte are of chief intert to Amri-j can3, r.e"ai) ?e they rj h-:1o.p ?.orne th 1 n g of the ?.?e of mind of the frm.in pr-plc. pr-plc. Th va t infi jenc; of Hin lenhurg wo old not h uti ii zed in this fashion were it not tta the German people ha4 bee 0 rr e r x t re rn e 7 r p j pp, .ff , not to say melancholy. The Socialist pap-s, on more than one 0 ceL t i o n ( have arfo.vl the ovemrnent of hiding the truth, and there ar siem that the people g"n-e g"n-e rally b'd ie e t hat they hav be en temtjcaily tc.c-;- H. That i: a dan-gerofJ3 dan-gerofJ3 ".ta'e of mind for the nvtrn-rn nvtrn-rn e n , w h 1 h h a a on' y i t v, 1 f to blame. Having f on nd fh'-m .: vei the v i r 1 1 ms of go'-'t;,'rjrJier;f.al deception, the people vill no lor."'r put aholijte t.nMt, in r y h in;' t o vern mn t rna v 9r.1v. K " n f ! 1 n de n rg ran not. en f i re I v re-rn re-rn o ' r (',r, t,t and '.pi'- ion. I |