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I I Ridiculous Statements Made by Kaisers Kaiser's Kaisers Kaiser's Kai Kai- sers ser's Is Fear of America l t. t A poster recently issued d b by the hit hit- pedal German government gO in an effort to belittle the participation of America in the war and thus strengthen the morale of her people leopie form the text of one of the most striking pieces pieces-of of literature litera tune ture that the bureau of publicity of 01 the war loan organization has prepared for use In the forthcoming Fourth Libert Liberty Liberty Lib Lib- ert erty loan The rhe title of the Mite poster is Can Americas America's Entry Make a decision of the War Integral sections of It attempt to convince the reader that Americas America's army cannot take the place of Russia's Russia's Russia's Rus Rus- sias sia's withdrawn forces that the Unit Unity el ejI States state cannot build buil enough ships l ps to have taw an any 1 effect on the result of the war and that the U boats will destroy oo all the ships that America pan can cap build u w when nhen en t those ships at attempt at at- tempt to cross cross the ocean ocean A French poster postel also ulso is reproduced In In inthe the German German German Ger Ger- man poster and the meaning m so twisted twi ted as to mal make e It appear that France Flance i is vcr very badly In need of food r of have hae Two T o o millions o the booklets been printed an and will be distributed in various parts of ot the COU country particularly particularly par par- in theaters where lucre Liberty Loan speakers take the they the book as their text teat The enormous figure of u a Russian soldier is the the th t object on the poster to strike e the thee eye e lie He stands stands' with ith hands In Iu his overcoat pockets ig indica indicative ica- ica tive tiye of the fact that he Is through fighting Beside him stands Uncle Sam holding I 11 a small smail ti figure designed to torel rel represent the United States arm army In In his right hand Band handl In his left hand Uncle which bears the Sam ca carries a banner inscription America n threatens threatens' to send transport tran l rt of of 0 million ol mou m n. n Below But taut It cannot ship shill them t I Is Uncle Sum Sam are re these words It impossible ihle for fOl America to tu train and aid for European war WU a lit tit out In tIm time or suitable und and large huge alm army army and anti It with it-with with the line necessary re- re The of this tills section of 01 the poster is Hus Ia's army arm of millions could not down Germany rand and on the skirt of th time the soldiers soldier's soldiers soldier's sol sol- ol- ol these tIlts printed diers dier's overcoat are nc words Russia used up altogether lIt et ler fifteen fifteen million men In 1 Ith On n the o W ito side of f the poster poter fa I Ie I th this s n l England sear sea power power nm and ad Englan ds I merchant marine hav havI not decided the war 1 ne Below v o this tails 1 line une appears a n huge figure Intended t to r represent the English shipping f ties at the outbreak of the war which c 1 bears beal s these words words' E England went into the war with twenty million gross s registered tons of ot fr freight space Alongside this I e or h a ship I 1 is j i d drawing Cawing designed to show Uncle Saul Sam carrying carr the United States tonJ tonnage un ua- der del his left arm arni The caption 1 abo above Uncle Sam reads Can America l 1 re replace place England o sea olSea Mite On-Mite On the slip ship which Uncle Sam carries Is printed cI this Inscription Three million lon gl gross registry tons ions nl ami bet below g w tutt thatIs ms s san another another an an- other Inscription which says Attin a 1 beginning of oC the guar var America h d on only one 1 ly a n tonnage of oC three million gross gros reg leg 3 i tons tolls Commenting on ion on tJ these es s statements the noster furth ll declare ci re J America cannot increase her gross gross i registered tons for lOiS by more than tw two two and to a half i million tons Our U boats U-boats Io ts sink i h twice ce as quick quickly as as' as England an and l' l America rica cnn can build build i Ii The answer of the publicity tv bureau to the two se o the poster referring referring refer refer- r ring to the tr tee tr 1 importation I on of f l theft men and aid the line building of ot At At At the he moment the thc bulletin boards hoards of 01 Germun Germany Germany Ger- Ger Ger Ger- mun many scoffed th the possibility of Aln Aera Amer America I ica sending a nf to to France there were already alread more ore than n a million fightIng fight fight- Ing lag men ilea overseas and transports walled d about by the American nav navy navy defying de de- defying I th the cowardly submarines were hearing bearing every month hundreds of thousands more The fhe gauge is set and antI the lie summer of 1910 1010 will 1019 will w I see lighting fighting American men men menIe ID in Nor or will there thell be a lack of ships hips to transport trans trans- transport port and sustain them The Liberty Bond buyer bucl Is fast fat giving iving to America American a n merchant marine that will wilt be the peer o of nn any in tI the c world America launched in Tul July alone tons Lo Losses Looses ses to allied and neutral shipping combined from every every eYer cause for the thelast thelast last six months month amounted to 0 ton tons The he distance from New York Tork to England the Boche points out oui comments comments comments com com- ments the bureau of publicity publication publication cation is two hundred ti times lles greater than that from Crom England to France from which he spells Opportunity ni ty Corthe for Cor forthe forthe the German u boats U Pitiful Pitiful Is tills this hon boast boasts In ll face of the facts In tead of the U-boat U being an nn a unc unconquerable ruhle en engine ln of war as the Hun Iun confidently e expected it has lIas be become m the thee slinking foe of fishing smacks s and other Isolated isolated Iso iso- craft The vast ast army of r Liberty lbert Bond buyers bUels thirty millions stron strong has built an nn unbroken bridge Over the Atlantic ocean In Into o the heart of the enem enemy's enem's s 's strongholds Across this bridge there are streaming our mil millions mil mil-I lions of or lighting fighting l men as good as fiS the I world has ever known munitions and I equipment that have been wrought by i those back home whose determination is that the American fighting man shall shall'S lack nothing that h he he needs S J. J I As a banded backhanded slap at nt the tine French the time German propagandists have reproduced lured a French poster which plc cis with French to toy eat ent lea l in order order order or or- States States' JO send der that the ru h t t over more llla man man POW po Time The French ren fi poster pointed out ont e person person per per- son in France 1 rance would save a n a hundred grams of food a day that the American reinforcements could be Ic f fi a division a month ilie I e Fr French French h- h hat catch catch- at line on on this poster was Does Docs France Frince w want nt wheat heat or men men An the German poster remarks s Al Also q f the allies s are arenow arenow now beginning e to 1 li e their doubts doubts s I In a further effort to convince ithe the i German people that It will be Impossible Impossible sible Bible for he tle United States to to- huns port troops to France e. e the G German section of th the p poster sa says s 's that ten tons freight oft space are arc required for Cpr every soh soldier In crossing the wa way er er r. r The truth is that a n sul soldier ler requires requites less than one half thi this ha amount of ot space S Summing up all nIl the lie falsehoods which hl lt the German poster contains the booklet booklet booklet book book- let says sa Tine The War Lord of Germany German Germany Ger Ger- man many oma may have e the futile hope that hi his people will devour in the place of ot food such statements as US the forego forego- ing Falsehoods however are poor substitutes and are likely el to aggravate aggra aggra- vote ute rather than appease when the deh deluded de- de le- le h led people of G Germany learn that of the American fr j requirement soldier will be met h by his patriotic and unqualified support hack back home If a Angle soldier sol er required ten tons of freight space it would be bc given glen him 1 But But the t truth uth Is he requires less than half one ne half of or thatA that Unit liAs As A for German Germanys Germany's R statement that even en if If- the lie United d States built bunt from two o End and a half million gross registered registered regis regis- I tons in 1918 1015 it would not mean I deliverance for the this allies no further comment I Is s needed than that b by July Tul of t thi this year ear t the e ton mark marl has hus been passed If It further refutation rein refu tation of oC the lie Hun boast of hi his tf U-b U brat J at prowess Pro were hero JH needed I It might be sated saied f eel that less than less C R n rOO 00 American have lost the their l' l lives fl n the of U boat attacks at t result present ot war as ns a 1 rr tacks lackS tIl time the hoo booklet et Is Is thIs tills striking Ip nt tIon from Secretary The Fourth Liberty Ilbert loan Is the bare bar bar- rn e which AliCh will wili precede t the e victorious t thru luu of our army |