THE SUPER-LIARS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2709, 2 March 1916, Page 6

THE SUPER-LIARS

HUN METHODS IN AMERICA. Mr. David A. Craig, of Wellington, well known in commercial circles, returns from America with extraordinary eviden.ee of the manner in which proGermans and their papers work to stir up bad feeling between Australasia and America. . "When I was in New York," he said, "the Young Australian League's party, arrivpd, and were given a wonderful time, everywhere. 1 saw them parade down Broadway, lioaded by the Australian flag, the Stars and Stripes, and the Union Jack and they were cheered the whole way by immense crowds of people. To show the manner in which tho pro-German liar works, the secretary of the league, a lad of only 18 or 19 years of age, was interviewed by, the Hearst paper in Los Angolos, and in, tho course of that interview was asked if there was compulsory service in Australia, and whether the men were forced to go to tho Dardanelles. Tho boy told the reporter that there was compulsory military training, but there was no compulsion for active service, mentioning incidentally that his brother had been killed in Gallipoli. The next day the paper came out with flaring headlines announcing that there ivas compulsory service in Australia, that the men had all been forced to go to the Dardanelles, that the league secretary's brother had been murdered there; also that the war was intensely resented in Australia and Now Zealand, and that they loved the Germans, and would sooner be under their rule than that of England. That is only a typical case of the trouble proGerman subsidised papers are attempting to create by influencing the American mind as to the situation out here. "That it was rot having the desired effect is proved by the fact that an American regiment is being raised in Toronto, with the recruiting headquarters at the Toronto Club. Americans wero refused at the beginning, of the war, and lots of them who had gone away with the Canadian contingents were sent back from England. Now the Imperial authorities had sanctioned tho raising of an American regiment to bo raised in Canada, and these men actually wore a badge on the sleeves of their tunics, consisting of the Stars and Stripes intertwined with the Union Jack."