GERMAN FABRICATIONS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2267, 29 September 1914, Page 5

GERMAN FABRICATIONS

ATTEMPT TO FLOOD CANADA WITH THEM Ottawa, September 27. The Canadian newspapers are flooded with. anti-British reports, apparently emanating from Count Bernstorff, German Ambassador to the United States. Special' war numbers of American papers have been issued containing German news of the campaign. They have been a total failure. A TAINTED NEWS SOURCE. (Rec. September 28, 6.30 p.m.) . London, September 27. "The Times," in a leader describing how Germany influenced opinion in Britain through a section of the Press, asks: "Did Router's Agency take any precautions when communicating to the Press its telegrams from Berlin to give warning that those telegrams were of. German official or semi-official origin, so as to enable the" public to distinguish between such telegrams and those dispatched by Reuter's own correspondents?"—("Times" and Sydney "Sun". Services.) . CHINESE JOURNALISTS BRIBED. London, September 26. Germany is inducing Chinese papers to publish stories of Japanese atrocities: ■•■!.' •-. One paper was paid £1000 to open its columns to these fabrications.—"Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services. • ' ■ BLAMING BRITAIN. London, September 26. Among the German professors inculcating the doctrine that England is ' the flulprit for the war are Professor' Haeckel and Professor Wundt. The latter declares that the war is the result of a long-planned conspiracy of the Entente bandits. King Edward, with a policy hemming Germany in, was tho 'originator, and Sir Edward Grey his testamentary executor..-. . \