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Show Distorting News Is German Game . In Mexico CHIHUAHUA CITY, Mex.. Nov. 16 Copies of the bulletins issued by the Gorman propaganda office In Mexico City and distributed by the branch office of-fice here show tho extent to which the Germans go to distort news in the United States and the Allied countries. A favorite trick of the German propagandists propa-gandists is to isolate a single news item and mako it appear as typical of the record. of events in the United States. The arrest of a New York editor edi-tor on a charge of murder is referred to as "the arrest of the editor of tho president's organ for murdering his wife." The failure of concrete ships is given giv-en in his bulletin as if a fact and credits cred-its the absurd statement to Charles Schwab "the well known steel king." The bulletin denies that' more submarines sub-marines are sunk than are built and declares false the figures ' given out by the British government that 150 submarines had been sunk. A strike purported to have occurred oc-curred among the London policemen for higher salaries is given the place of importance at the top of the bulletin bulle-tin and minor crimes occurring in different dif-ferent parts of the United States aro givon exaggerated Importance and especially es-pecially those having to do with any violations alleged to have been committed com-mitted by soldiers. The propaganda office here has been closed for ten days because there has been nothing but Allied news recently, j Three German agents in charge of the' office here have disappeared and it' is bolieved tho place will not be op-1 encd. i |