Show i WORLDS WORLD'S GREATEST PLOT BEliEVED I I- I I UNCOVERED By Edward M. M Thierry N N. N E. E A. A Staff C Correspondent BERLIN Jan 1 Has I.-Has Has Germany more people than the the United States II Was Vas the falsification of census figures to lull the world i to more amazing than I ever ever has been suspected II II i iI I raise these questions because of ot I j the following startling fact tact The Socialist newspaper Die Freiheit Freiheit Frei- Frei heit asserts votes can be I cast in Germany at the February election election by men by women Germany now has universal suffrage suffrage suf suf- I frage for all aU over 20 Before she did not even have manhood manhood man man- hood suffrage I II j I But if males over 20 are I I left to vote Germanys Germany's population I must be nearly equal to if it does not exceed that of the United States I America cast votes for president in 1916 the age mark being a year ear higher than Germanys Germany's but votes of ot women being included in suffrage states And the German figures ures which Die Freiheit publishes today do not include in in- In Include include clude th the half million prisoners held by the allies They would br ng the total of male voters above Americas America's presidential mark of ot 1916 I Die Freiheit is a a well Informed Informed newspaper belonging to the Lieb- Lieb I branch of the Socialist party Lieb-I Lieb I Note by editor editor If If the figures of Die Freiheit are correct Staff Correspondent Correspondent Correspondent Corre- Corre CorreI I I Thierry has told the world world I of the most gigantic plot in all aU history his his- j tory to deceive all nations to one nations nation's nations nation's na na- na- na tion's advantage I It will be recalled that two years years years' ago charges were circulated from fromI I 1 I Great Britain that Germanys Germany's po population pula- pula J 1 tion figures had been systematically falsified for generations that Germanys Germany's Germanys Germany's Ger- Ger I Ger-I many's available manpower was much greater than the allies had anticipated antici- antici I i I and that It t was part of the the- thai plan to overwhelm the I I world v 1 with several millions of reserve soldiers that the allies did not know i 1 she possessed Unexplained additions I to the German armies on the western i front lent color to the these e charges I Now comes the public announcement announcement announcement announce- announce ment in Berlin that men are expected to vote next February February as many as vote in the United States and after four years of warfare warfare warfare war war- fare that has supposedly wiped out I Ia a tenth of German manhood I I I The figures and facts cabled by Correspondent Thierry have been referred re- re re by this newspaper s P t to the United States bureau ur of the le leen census en I at Washington as a contribution to contemporary history I |