BERLIN LIE BUREAU

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2314, 23 November 1914, Page 5

BERLIN LIE BUREAU

WHAT AMERICA IS TOLD (Rec. November 22, 10.30 a.m.) _ New York,- November 21. _ Berlin is still dispatching budgets of lies throughout the United States by means of the Sayville wireless Btation. The latest samples included alleged statements by the London "Times" acknowledging enormous Russian losses: that the rebel army has surrounded Bloemfontein; that there is a Sudanese rising; and that Alexandria reports that there have been serious British defeats off the Arabian coast. The American Press publishes these reports daily without comment. Several violently pro-German papers are being published regularly in the Western States, tie authorities not objecting. The British and French Embassies at Washington -are regularly issuing bulletins with the object of counteracting tho German mendacity campaign. CANADIAN ACTION.. . , ■ (Rec. November 22, 10.30 a.m.) Ottawa, November 91. The Government has decided to make it a criminal offence throughout Canadafor any person to possessor circulate copies of German journals'published in the United States. 'A determined effort is being mad© to flood Canada with pro-German literature, and the Government is prohibiting the use of the mails for that purpose.