Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-03-18 | Page 5 | Germans Unable to Fool the Italians

GERMANS UNABLE TO FOOL TIN11S Airmen Drop Leaflets With What a Rome Newspaper Calls "Grotesque Lies." By International News Service. , WASHINGTON, March IT. "Grotesque lies,'' is the way ' the Piccolo Giornale d'lialla characterizes the latest brand of German propaganda dropped over the Italian lines by" German airplanes. An article appearing in the Piccolo 6n February Feb-ruary . IT was made public here today. It prints in full the German propaganda leaflets, alluding to it as "defeatist propaganda." prop-aganda." Typically, ihe Germans aim to stir up resentment in Italy against England and the United States. The leaflets charge these countries with demanding usurious interest on the Italian war loans and with aiming at t he permanent retention of the ports of France and Italy. It was pointed point-ed nut here today, that the Germans tried to raise the same sort of French suspicion suspi-cion against the Knglish when they landed land-ed at Calais, and that Viscount Ishii when he was here as special ambassador from Japan declared that only German propaganda propa-ganda was responsible for the feeling of suspicion between his country and the United State?. The leaflets distributed in Italy par: "The English and Americans aim at getting possession of the ports of their allies, and have stretched out their rapacious ra-pacious hands even in Italy. After Calais Ca-lais and Havre it is now the turn of Genoa, which is being confiscated by the English and Americans. According to credible information, the port of Genoa was out at the disposition of America and England, who have established themselves them-selves there hypocritically pretending a desire to give a greater development to the port. ,,rrm Rwis information, to which unlimited un-limited faith may be given, we learn that ai Kouon a real and true battle has taken i place between Kngllsh and French troops, in which there was the most violent I fight ing on both side. Tho cause of it all- was the resentment of the French troops against the Knglish troops, who always remain in the least dangerous points of the, front, and take the best sort of care of themselves." Assorting that Germany raised forty-five forty-five billions of war loans within her own border, the leaflets then declare that most of Italy's twenty-eight billions cre-iitrame j from Englti nd a nd America at usurious rat I "All that remains to you is the agree-! agree-! abb? duty of paying for genera : Ions and j ce n era tions the exorbitant interest which you wiii send across the sa for sums j you have never s c:i and never had m yonr hands. a:id Kngiard and America w:ii laugh at yo; behind your backs."