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Show GERMAN PRESS TELLING LIES Cologne Zeitung Tells Readers Read-ers Over Forty U. S. Troop Ships Have Been Sunk. AMSTERDAM. Aug. 21 The Col-ogno Col-ogno Zeitung Tuesday contained an article attempting to prove by statistics statis-tics that America cannot possibly send 300,000 men to Europe in a month. The article declares that more than forty troop ships already have been sunk. It continues: "If the Americans at the front are fighting well that does not need to cause surprlso for it is the fine flower flow-er of American manhood, namely, the old regular army, plus about -10,000 of the. most sturdy and most adventurous adventur-ous elements which all nations have who volunteered at tho outset of the war. Then there will bo contingents recruited from the New England states who are the best educated and keenest fighters. "So we get an aggregate of from 200.000 to 250,000 picked men, but once these are used up the picture will be altered because they cannot be replaced." The Zeitung believes that compulsory compul-sory military servico is widely opposed op-posed and is being evaded In the United Uni-ted States and it builds hope on the slender basis that American casualty lists will increase this alleged repugnance. repug-nance. The article concludes with this argument: "America has done more than many expected, even In America, but despite de-spite all surprises American opinion f!iat the full weight of her military power will not develop bpforo 1919 or even 1920 still holds good." |