Show SPEND MILLIONS TO SPREAD LIES germans circulate whispering propaganda including attacks on president IS DIRECTED FROM SPAIN mexico and south america flooded with book which likens united states to vampire lies about rainbow division washington the german propaganda was never busier in the united states than at the present time this fact has been established by agents of the government and energetic meth to combat this sinister peril are now being carried out lot only Is the propaganda which Is operated from headquarters in spain working day and night to cause trouble in tills country but it Is also working ast as hard to discredit the government of the united states in mexico and cen aral and south america where there has recently appeared for free button a book entitled el del continente the vampire of the conal nent referred to being this country an official of the federal government one of whose duties brings him into contact with german prop ngan da in all parts of the world said the germans were spending hundreds of millions of dollars to spread discon tent particularly among the uneda bated people in all the countries of the allies their activities including among other schemes a concerted and vicious attack wherever possible on president allson premier lloyd george and other high officials of tho allied governments worked for bearson Ye arson scheme we know that for years before the outbreak of war in 1914 the german government worked to perfect its propaganda arm in germany they called into the service of the state for this purpose the great psychologists of the country the big newspaper men alie university professors trade experts and even novelists and dramatists agents were sent into every country in the world to study the people until the government files in berlin contained complete data regarding the peculiarities and of all people with whom germany had reason to anticipate a clash up to a few months ago the kropa ganda concentrated against england in an effort to isolate that nation every neutral country in the world was flood ed with false information regarding england and her purposes in the war ow the attack Is switching from england to the united states every possible effort to poison the minds of the people in certain parts of the coun try Is being resorted to the effort being especially vicious in those parts of the country where the percentage of illiteracy Is greatest and among the negroes the special story which la being whispered over the country and we are the victims of what Is cnown as the whispering propaganda Is that this Is a war of the wealthy classes and that the president plunged the country into the struggle to save the millionaires as well as to safeguard americas huge loans and cred its to the allied countries we have een established the fact that the propaganda has penetrated into the mountain fastnesses fast nesses of the carolinas CaroI Inas and georgia where the mountaineers have been led to believe that another civil war Is imminent lies about division the disaster story has also been worked to a finish in all parts of the country the rainbow division has been picked out as the victim of this phase of the propaganda because it represents all sections of the country and a disaster which that command would have sta effect in all parts of the nation and not in some particular section this Is the source of all those mysterious rumors to the effect that this or that regiment in the rainbow division has been annihilated 4 south america at this moment Is swamped with a pamphlet entitled cl vampire del continente which Is perhaps the most vicious attack on a na hon ever published and the nation in this instance Is the united states some months ago there w as sent to south america or circulation a little officially prepared document entitled uha ameika ent to war instead of making friends for ui the book lost them and an investigation was ordered this investigation led to the discover that the germans had got hold ot the genuine documents after which they proceeded to substitute an edition of their own the spurious edition was the same as the american with the exception that the germans inserted a preface the preface was cleverly written and to the ordinary person read as if it had been prepared by our government but the statements in the preface did not bear out the facts in the rest of the boot and so instead of believing what we said thousands of people who read the book came to ule conclusion that we were lying proper steps are now being taken to counteract this work of the enemy kropa ganda in the south american countries the germans have bought up numerous newspapers which they employ to spread their propaganda |