| Show HOW GERMANS ARE DELUDED ridiculous statements made by kai tors government prove how real fear of america A poster recently issued by the im german government in an effort to belittle the participation of america in the war and thus strengthen the morale of her people form the text of one of the most striking pieces of eltern ture that the bureau of publicity of the w ar loan organization has prepared for ue in the foi incoming fourth lib erty loan the title of the pooler ts can america s entry make a decision of the ar integral sections of it attempt to convince the reader that america s army cannot take the place of kus blaa withdrawn forces that the unit ed states cannot build enough to hn e any effect on the result of the and that the U boats will destroy virtually all the ships that america can build when those ships at tempt to cross the ocean A french poster also is reproduced in the ger man poster and the meaning so twisted as to make it appear that i ranee I 1 ery baal in need of food two millions of the booklets jiahe been printed and will be distributed in various parts of the country par in theaters where liberty loan speakers take the book as their text the enormous figure of a soldier Is the first object on the poster to strike the eye he stands with bands la bis cont pockets alve of the tact that he is through fighting beside him stands uncle sam holding a adall figure designed to represent the united states arm in his right hand in his left hand uncle carries a banner which bears the inscription america threatens to send transport of one halt men but it cannot ship them below uncle efam are these words it is impossible for america tu train and fit out in time tor the european Lur war a suitable and sufficiently large arm and provide it with the necessary re the of this section of the la Ilus army of millions could not down germani and on the skirt of alie Ilus BOI adlers merc oat are printed theae words russia awl up altogether fifteen million cocu in agnf on the opposite side of the poster la this england a sea power and england s merchant marine havi not decided the warl below this une appears a huge figure intended to represent the english facell ties at the outbreak of the war which bears these words angland Ln gland went into the war with twenty million gross registered tons of freight apace alongside this figure of a ship Is a drawing designed to show uncle sam carrying the united states tonnage un der his left arm the caption above uncle sam reids re ids can america r place angland on sea on the ship which uncle sam carries is printed tills inscription three million grobi registry tons and below that Is an other inscription which says at tin beginning of the war america had on ly a tonnage of three million gross registered tons commenting on these statements the poster further declares america cannot increase her gross registered tons for 1918 by more than two to two and a half million tons our U boats sink twice as quickly as angland and america can build f the answer of the publicity bureau to the two sections of the poster referring to the of men and the building of ships follows at the moment the bulletin boards of germany scoffed the possibility of amer lea sending a force to I 1 ranee there were already more than a million fight ing men overseas and transports walled about by the american navy defying the cowardly submarines were bearing every month hundreds of thousands more the gauge Is set and the summer of 1919 will see fighting american men in ranee r will there be a lack of to trans port and sustain them the bond buver Is fast giving to america a merchant marine that will be the peer of ail in the world america launched in july alone tons losses to allied and neutral shipping combined from every cause for the last six months amounted to 2 03 tons the distance from ew york to england the boche points out corn ments the bureau of publicity publication Is two hundred times gi eater than that from england to 1 ranee aiom which he spells for the U boats I 1 Is tins boast in face of the facts instead of the choat being an unconquerable engine of war as the hun expected it has become the slinking foe of fishing smacks and other iso craft the vast agniv of I 1 iberry bond buyers thirty millions strong has built an unbroken bridge over the atlantic ocean into the heart of the enemy s strongholds strong holds across this bridge there are streaming our millions of fighting men as good as the world has ever known and equipment that have been wrought by those back home whose determination Is that the american fighting man shall lack nothing that he needs As a back handed slap at the 1 ranh the german propagandists have cepro deuced a brench poster which plods with french people to eat less in or der that the united states may send over more man power the trench poster pointed out that it every person in trance would save a hundred grams of food a dav that the american reinforcements could be increased a division a month the trench catali line on this poster was does want wheat or men an the german poster remarks also the allied are now to auve their doubts in a further effort to convince the german people that it will be impossible for alie united states to fians port troops to ia ranee the german section of the poster says that ten tons of freight space are required for every soldier in crossing the the truth Is eliat a soldier requires less than one halt this amount of space summing up all alie falsehoods which the german poster contains the booklet sas 1 I he ar lord of ger many mav hae the futile hope that his people will devour in the place of food such statements as the foregoing falsehoods however are avor substitutes and are to aggravate rather than appease when the le elded people of germans learn that avery requirement of the Ameil can soldier will be met by his patriotic and unqualified support back home if a single fieldler required ten tons of freight space it would be given him but alie truth la he requires less than nie half of that As for germany s statement that cien it the united states built from two and a halt million gross registered tons in 1918 it would not mean deliverance for the allies no further comment la needed than that by jelv of year the ton mark haa been passed it further refu of the hun boast of his U boat prowess w ere needed it might be staled that less than COO american rf hae lost their lives in the war as a result of U boat at tacks the booklet Is this striking ill secretary the fourth liberty loan Is the bar anse vach will precede the hrus of our army |
