| Show REVEALS FOES' FOES DIRE STRAITS German Poster Reproduced by Bureau of Publicity Proof of Shattered Morale of Enemy A poster recently issued by the imperial im pertal German government go In an effort to b belittle the participation of America in the war and thus strengthen strength n the morale of her people form torm the text test fone Ione i f ione one of the most striking pieces of literature literature litera litera- ture that the bureau hureau of publicity of the time war loan organization has Ims prepared for tor use In the forthcoming Fourth Liberty Liberty Lib Lib- erty loan The center of the poster Is devoted to a drawing showing New York city on on one side of the Atlantic and a n tremendous tremendous tre tree mD explosion on the other side probably somewhere ome In France Two sinking vessels are shown In iii the lane Inne of travel between New York and France while In the o otin are two U boats securely afloat Opportunity for or the German U-boats U Is s the catch- catch line for this thus section of or the time poster The fhe lane Inne of travel in which the boats are sinking hears bears this Inscription u. merlea America Europe Distance oo times greater than from I England to France mains mainland In a corner of this section seCtion section sec seC- I tion of the till poster are ure shown the names of Serbia Montenegro 1 Ital Italy Roumania Rou- Rou mania manla Hus Russia ln and Belgium They TIley are lined up In the order named under another an an- oth other r exploding fl figure Ule representative of or the lime European war and the names of r nil IJ the countries except Ital Italy are crossed out Indicating that they have been eliminated from the struggle b by bythe bythe the Huns The title of the poster postel Is Can Cnn Americas America's Entry Make ale a decision of the War Var Int Integral ral sections of It attempt to convince the reader that Americas America's mural army cannot take tak the place of Russia's Bus Rus slats sia's withdrawn forces that the line United United United Unit Unit- ed States cannot build enough ships I Ito to have any effect on the time result of ot the time war and that the U bents will twill destroy virtually all nU the ships that America can build when those ships attempt attempt at nt- tempt to cross the ocean Two millions of the booklets have e been printed and will be distributed In various various- parts of the country particularly particularly par par- In theaters where Liberty Loan Ioan speakers tale take e the hook book as their text test er E Every effort is made In the time wording and the Illustrations of th the poster poYer to minimize aUl and ridicule the efforts of the time United States in the war wor A striking example of or this is found In the t figure ule of Uncle Sam who Is pictured as ns a n nI I cadaverous us Individual Ind who wears n mini an i American ling flag with nine stars and five fhe stripes around his plug hat and smokes a stemmed long-stemmed cob rt pipe lIe He also appears appears ap ap- ap- ap pears to be wt wearing spats or dancing pumps The Time enormous figure of a Russian soldier is the tIle first object on the time poster to strike the eye ee He lIe stands with hands In his overcoat pockets ets Indicative Indicative Indicative Indica Indica- tive of the fact that he Is through fighting Beside him him stands Uncle Sam holding a small figure lIe designed signed to torl rl represent the United States army in lu u his right hand In his left hand Uncle Sam carrl carried carrie tc a banner bunner which l 1 hears ears earli th the Inscription America threatens to send l' transport oro half c million men But It cannot ship th them I Below Uncle Sam are these words It L H 11 impossible for Cor America to train an ami lit fit out In time lime for 01 the European war H ml suitable and sufficiently large army and ud provide pro it with the necessary mry re- re Time The of this section of the poster ter is army of oC millions could not down Germany and md on the skirt of the Russian soldiers soldier's sol sot dier's diers overcoat are ure printed these words Russia used up altogether fifteen million men in iii vain I On the opposite side of the time poster I is this I sea poe and I England's merchant marine havo not decided the time war I Below this j line appears appear a n huge figure intended to represent the English shipping shipping- facilities facilities ties at the outbreak of the war which bears these words England went into the war with twenty million gross relst registered red ton tons of freight space Alongside this figure of a ship is a drawing designed to show bow Uncle Sam carrying the United States tonnage tonnage under under under un un- der his left arm The caption above Uncle Sam Sain reads rends Can America replace re re- place England on sea On the ship which Uncle Slim Sauna carries is printed this inscription Three million gross registry tons and below that is s another another an an- other inscription which says sas At the time beginning of the war America had only only only on on- ly a tonnage of three million gross registered registered reg reg- tons Commenting on these statements the poster further declares America cannot Increase her lien gross grosc registered tons for 1018 1918 by more than two to two and a half balf million tons Our U-boats U sink twice as quickly as England and Ame America can build Time The answer of the publicity bureau to the time two sections of the poster referring referring referring refer refer- ring to the time transportation of men and the time building of ships follows At the moment the bulletin boards of Germany Germany Ger Ger- many scoffed the possibility of America Amer Amer- America ica sending a force to France there ther were already more than a million fighting fighting fighting fight fight- ing men overseas and transports walled about by the th th American navy defying defying de de- the coward cowardly 1 submarines were bearing every month hundreds of ot thousands more The g lUge b uge is set and the summer of 1919 1910 will see fighting American men in ill France Nor Kor will there be a lack Inck of ships to transport transport trans trans- port and sustaIn them The Liberty Bond buyer Is fast to America a merchant marine that will be the peer of any in the world America launched in July alone tons Losses to allied and neutral shipping combined from every cause for the thelast thelast thelast last six months amounted to tons The Time distance from New York to England the Boche points out comments comments comments com com- ments the time bureau of publicity publication publication cation is two hundred times greater than that from England to France from which he be spells Opportunity for forthe forthe forthe the German U boats Pitiful Is this boast in face of the facts Instead of the U-boat U bA beUg an unconquerable engine of war as uS the Hun confidently expected it has become the slinking foe of fishing smacks and other isolated isolated iso iso- craft Time The vast army of Liberty Bond buyers thirty millions strong has Imas built an unbroken briage bridge over the Atlantic ocean 1 into futo to the heart of th the enemy's strongholds Across this bridge there are streaming our millions mil mil- millions lions of fighting men as good as tho the world has ever known munitions and equipment that have haye been wrought by those back home whose determination is that the American fighting man shall lack nothing that he ho needs As a handed back slap at the French the German propagandists have reproduced reproduced reproduced a French poster which pleads with French people to eat ent less In order order order or or- der that the United States may send over oyer more man power The Time French poster postel pointed out that If every person person person per per- son In la France would save saye a hundred bundred grams of food tood a n da day that the American reinforcements could be Increased u u. division a month The French catch catch- line on this poster was Does France want wheat or m men n and the German poster remarks Also the allies aIlles are arenow arenow arenow now be beginning to have their doubts In a further effort to convince cOD the German people that it will be Impossible sible Ible for the thc United States to transport trans port troop troops troops' to France the German section lectIon of the time poster says that ten tenton tons ton of freight space are aro required for fore e every r soldier In crossing the water The rite truth Is 1 that a n soldier requires less les than one-half one this tills amount of or space Summing up nil all the falsehoods which the German poster contains the booklet booklet book book- let Jet says s 's The War Lord of Germany Germany Ger Ger- many may muy have the futile hope that his people will devour In n the place of or food such statements as ns the forego forego- in lug ing Falsehoods however are poor substitutes and are likely to aggra aggra- sate ate rather than appease when the deluded de de- eluded e- e lud d people of Germany learn that ever every requirement of the American soldier will be met by his patriotic and unqualified support back home If It a single required ten tons of frel freight ht space it would be given glnn him But the truth Is he requires less titan than one half of that A As for Germanys Germany's statement that even If f the United States built from two and a half million gross registered registered regis regis- tons In 1018 It would not mean deliverance for the allies no further comment Is s needed than that by hy July of year rear the time ton mark has lias hc been lc en passed If It further refu refu- n tt Nl of the time lInn Hun boast of his U boat U-boat hoat prowess were needed It might be je stated staled that less than GOO COO American soldiers have lost their lives lIv's in n time the present war as ns a n result of U boat attacks at nt tu tacks cI Closing th time the booklet Is this striking in quota U. U n from Secretary McAdoo The rhe Fourth Liberty loan Is the barrage bar hal barrage rage which will precede the victorious thrust of our army |
