Show REVEALS FOES DIRE STRAITS german poster reproduced by bureau ot of publicity proof of shattered morale of enemy A poster re recently vently issued by the lin aerial german government in ili an effort to belittle the participation of ameilla in the war anti and thus strengthen the lie morale of her people form the text of I 1 one of the most striking pieces of literature that the bureau of publicity of the war loan organization lias has prepared ed for use in tile the forthcoming fourth liberty loan the center of the poster Is devoted to a drawing draing shoeing new york city on one side of the atlantic an and a tre mend oui explosion on the other side probably some somewhere iNhere in fiance TN two 0 sinking ebbels tire are shown in the lane of travel between new york and france while in the hofling tire are two U boats securely afloat opportunity for the german U bonts boats Is the catch line for this section of the poter poster the lane hine of in which the boats are sinking bears this inscription america europe distance times greater than from england to france nin mainland inland in a corner of this section of the poster are shown the names of leibla montenegro italy roumania mania russia and belgium they are lined up in the order named under r another exploding figure of the lie european Europ oan war and the names of all the lie countries except italy tire are crossed out indicating that they have been eliminated from the struggle by the huns alu title of the poster is can americas america entry make like a decision of the V ur integral sections section of it attempt to co convince nitice tit the reader that americas america army annly cannot take the place of rus sias NIth dran forces that the united state cann cannot ot build enough hips to have any effect on the mesut t of the hie war tind and that the U boats w will ill destroy virtually all the ships that america can cali build when those ships lips attempt to cross tile ocean two millions of the booklets have been printed and will be distributed in various parts of tile the country particularly ticul arly in theatris thea then tet teis where liberty loan speakers take the book as a thor their text every E very effort la is made in the voiding and the illustrations of the poster to minimize and in ridicule the efforts effort 4 of the united states slates in the war A sticking king e dample of tills this 11 Is found in tile the figure of undo uncle sam who iio Is pictured as a cadaverous individual nio who wears an amerlean american flag will nine little stars and live alpe n around ellb plug hat and smokes a long stemmed cob pipe HP he also appears to be eating spats or lancing dancing pumps tile enormous ell orillOuS figins of 0 f a russian soldier is 11 the firt first object on the lie to stluke alie eye lie he stands with hands hand in ili ills overcoat pockets indicative t of ohp fact that lie Is through fighting ide him stands uncle sam sain small figure d A to holding ieng a united stites states arul arm lu ili represent reu resent the OIL ills his right hand in his left ennd uncle sam ram carries a banner which bears the 1 inscription america threatens to send transport of one halt half million men but it cannot ship them I 1 belona uncle sam are these words it I 1 impossible for america to train and ami fit t out in time for the european war a suitable and large army and it with the necessary re enforce ments the cat eliline of this section lection of the li poster oter is dussias Rus sias army of millions i could not down germany nd on the skirt of the russian soldiers flier L overcoat are printed these words Itus russia sla used up altogether million lull llon men in i vain I 1 on tile opp e side ide of the flie poster is tins this cat eliline englard En glanda glaud a sea power and En glands mei wei cliant chant marine have not decided the war below this line file appears a huge figure intended to represent the english shipping facial ties at the outbreak of the war which bears these voids england went into the war with twenty million gross registered tons of freight space Along alongside zide this figure of a phlp Is a drawing designed to show uncle sara sam carrying the united states tonnage under liis his left arm the caption above uncle sam reads can replace england on sea on oil the ship which uncle suni sum carries is pilli ted this three million gross registry tons anti and below that Is another inscription which says at the bej beginning lining of the war america had only a tonnage of three million gross registered tons commenting on oil these statements the poster further declares america cannot increase her gross registered tons for 1918 by more than two to two to and a halt million to tons lis our U boats sink twice as quickly Is as england and america can build the answer of the publicity bureau to the two sections of the poster referring to the transportation of men a and antt the building of ships follows at the moment the he bulletin boards of germany scoffed tile alie possibility of america sending a force to france there N w ere already more than a million algi lighting L t men overseas and transports walled about by the Air eilean navy defying the submarines were bearing every month hundreds of thousands more the alie guge is set and the summer of 1919 wih see fighting american men iti ili france nor will there be a lack of ships to fians port and sustain them the liberty bond buyer is fast giving to america a ineich mei cliant ant marine that will be the peer of any in the world america launched in july alone tons losses to allied and shipping combined from every cause for the last hist six months amounted to 2089 tons tolls the distance from new yolk to england the boche points out comments the bureau of publicity publication is two hundred times g greater reater than that from england tp france from which lie spells opportunity for the german U boats pitiful is tills this boast in ili face ot of the facts instead of the U boat balag an all able engine of war as the hun hall confidently expected it lias has become the slinking clinking foe of fishing smacks and other isolated craft the vast army of liberty bond buyers thirty millions strong has built an unbroken bridge over th alie atlantic ocean into the heart of the strongholds strong holds across tills this bridge there are streaming our millions of lighting S men its as good is as the NN world orld lias has ever known knon munitions and equipment that have been wrought by those back homo home whose determination Is that the american fighting man shall lack nothing that lic he needs As a back funded slap shil at the french the german propagandists alave reproduced a french poster which pleads with french people to cat less in order that the lie united states may send end over wore more man power the fience fi end poster pointed out that jf if every person oil in france would save it a hundred grams of food a day that the american reinforcements could be increased a division a month the alie french catch line on this poster was does docs franco france want wheat or men and tile german poster remarks also aiso the allies are now beginning to have their doubts doubt sr r in a further effort to convince the german people that it will be impossible for the united states to transport troops to france the german section of the poster says that ten tons of freight space are required for every soldier in ili crossing the water the truth Ls that a soldier required less fesq than one half t tills ills amount of I 1 space summing up nil all the falsehoods which the german poster contains tile the booklet says the war lord of germany may have the futile hope that ill his people will debour in the place of food fond such statements as the alie foregoing falsehoods however are arc poor substitutes and tire are likely to aggra lie rather than appease when the deluded people of germany learn that every requirement of the american soldier will ill lie he met by ili his patriotic and unqualified support back home it if a single ringle soldier required ten tell tons of freight frel glit space it would be givon given him but the truth Is it am s le less than ono one half of that aa A for germanas germanys Germ anys statement that cven o tn if the united states built from ivo and a halt half million gross gros registered tons tolls in 1918 it would not mean deliverance for the allies no further tonline r eminent nt Is needed than that by july of f ye year ar the ton mark lins has been passed it if further refu talen of t the lie hun boast of ills hla r bont ont prow prowess cs were nee needed ded it might I 1 le stilled ovied that less than american soli lart have lost their lives in the war as a result of U boat ut attacks anel closing clong the bool booklet let 1 Is this striking quo tati 11 from secretary secreta ry mcadoo the fourth liberty loan 1 Is the barra 4 1 alc h N ill precede 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