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Show GERMANS' VAIN EFFORT TO BELITTLE AMERICAN POWER. Pester Widely Circulated in Kaiser's Empire, and Reproduced in This Country, Shows Morale of Huns Is Being Shattered. A poster recently issued by the imperial im-perial 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 literature litera-ture that the bureau of publicity of the war loan organization has prepared for use in the forthcoming Fourth Liberty Lib-erty loan. The title of the poster is "Can America's Entry Make a decision of the War?" Integral sections of it attempt to convince the reader that America's army cannot take the place of Russia's Rus-sia's withdrawn forces; that the Unlt-ed Unlt-ed Slates cannot build enough ships to have any effect on the result of the war, ami that the U-boats will destroy virtually all the ships that America ran build when those ships attempt at-tempt to cross the ocean. A French poster also Is reproduced in the German Ger-man poster and the meaning so twisted as to make it appear that France is very luidly in need of food. Two millions of the booklets have been printed and will be distributed In various parts of the country, particularly par-ticularly in theaters where Liberty Loan speakers take the book as tlielr text. The enormous figure of a Russian soldier Is the first object on the poster to strike the eye. He stands with hands In his overcoat pockets, indicative indica-tive of the fact that he is through lighting. Beside him stands Uncle Sam holding a small figure, designed to represent the United States army, in his right hand. In his left hand Uncle Sam tarries n banner which bears the Inscription, "America threatens to send transport of one-half million men. But It cannot ship them!" Below Uncle Sam are these words : "It is Impossible for America to train and fit out in time for the European war a suitabfc- and sufficient ly large army and provide It with I lie necessary re-euforeements." re-euforeements." The catehline of this section of the poster is "Russia's army of millions could not down Germany," and on the skirt of the Russian soldier's sol-dier's overcoat are printed these words: "Russia used up altogether fifteen million men in vain!" On the opposite side of the poster Is this '-atcliline: "England's sea power and England's merchant marine have not decided the war!" Below this line appears a huge figure intended to represent the English shipping facilities facili-ties at the outbreak of the war, whicli bears these words: "England went into the war with twenty million gross registered tons of freight space." Alongside tins figure of a ship is a drawing designed to show Uncle Sam carrying the United States tonnage under un-der his left arm. The caption above Uncle Sam reads: "Can America replace re-place England on sea'.'" On the ship which Uncle Sam carries is printed tlit.s inscription: "Three million gross registry tons," and below that is another an-other inscription which says: "At the beginning of the war America had only on-ly a tonnage of three million gross registered reg-istered 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 England and America can build !" The answer of the publicity bureau to the two sections of the poster referring refer-ring to the transportation of men and the building of ships follows: "At the moment the bulletin boards of Germany Ger-many scoffed the possibility of America Amer-ica sending a force to France, ther were already more than a million fight-is;; fight-is;; men overseas, and transports, walled about by the American navy defying de-fying the cowardly submarines, were bearing every month hundreds of thousands more. The gauge is set and the summer of 1919 will see 4,000,000 fighting American men in France. Nor will there be a lack of ships to transport trans-port and sustain them. The Liberty Bond buyer is fast giving to America a merchant marine that will be the peer of any in the world. America launched in July alone 635,011 tons, Losses to allied and neutral shipping combined, from every cause, for the lust six months, amounted to 2,0S9,393 tons. "The distance from New York to England, the Boche points out," comments com-ments the bureau of publicity publication, publi-cation, "is two hundred times greater -than that from England to France, from which he spells 'Opportunity for the German U-boats.' Pitiful is this boast in face of the facts. Instead of the U-boat being an unconquerable engine of war, as the Hun confidently expected, it has become the slinking foe of fishing smacks and other isolated iso-lated craft. The vast army of Liberty Bond buyers, thirty millions strong, has built an unbroken bridge over the Atlantic ocean into the heart of the enemy's strongholds. Across this bridge there are streaming our millions mil-lions of fighting men, as good as the world has ever known, munitions 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 French, the German propagandists have reproduced repro-duced a French poster which pleads with French people to eat less in order or-der that the United States may send over more man power. The French poster pointed out that if every person per-son in France would save a hundred grains of food a day that the American reinforcements could lie increased a division a month. The French catch-line catch-line on this poster was "Does France want wheat or men?" and the German poster remarks "Also Ihe allies are now beginning to have their doubts!" In a further effort to convince the German people that it will be impossible impos-sible for the United States to transport trans-port troops to France, (he German section of the poster says that ten tons of freight space are required for every soldier in crossing the water. The truth is that a soldier requires less than one-half this amount of space. Summing up all the falsehoods which tile German poster contains, the booklet book-let says: "The War Lord of Germany Ger-many may have the futile hope that his people will devour in the place of food, such statements as the foregoing. forego-ing. Falsehoods, however, are poor substitutes and are likely to aggra-nte aggra-nte rather than appease when the deluded de-luded people of Germany learn that every requirement of the American soldier will be met by his patriotic and unqualified support back home. If a single soldier required ten tons of freight space, it would be given hiiu But the truth Is he requires less thau one-half of that. "As for Germany's statement thut even if the United States built from two and a half million gross regis, tered tons in. 1918, it would not mean deliverance for the allies, no further comment is needed than that by July of this year the 2.0W,000-ton mark has been passed. If further refutation refu-tation of the Hun boast of his U-boat prowess were needed, it might lie stated that less than TxX) American snft.iers have lost their lives In the present war as a result of U-boat attack at-tack '' Closing the booklet is this striking quotation from Secretary McAdoo: "The Fourth Liberty loan is t tie barrage bar-rage which will precede the victorious thrust of our army." |