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Show KEi) New American Truck and Big Merchant Marine to Help Crush Enemy. NORTHCLIFFE TALKS Warns People Not to Heed Stories of German Weak- ness or Debilitation. DETROIT. Mich.. Oct 16. The lib-1 orty motor and America's now mcr chant marine will prove tremendous ' factors In crushing Gorman militar-, ism, said Lord Northcliffo, head of the British war mission, in an informal talk hero today. The British publisher publish-er mado this statemont before ho. left his hotel to visit several automobile factories. ! "The liberty motor. If perfected, will help Inconceivably in carrying our forces beyond the German lines, but. the motor must be perfeot," Lord Northcliffe said. He urged that Detroit De-troit industries and Detroit workmen to continue to vigorously assist the government In providing war materials mate-rials and he ridiculed reports that Germany Ger-many was facing an economic col-' lapse. "No heed should be paid to reports of weakness of dellbitation In Germany," Ger-many," he said. "Those reports aro manufactured and sent out from Germany Ger-many for the deliberate purpose of slackening America's efforts. Foreign newspapers In England were suppressed sup-pressed the first fortnight of the war. That is what the United States should do." |