CENSORED VOICES OF GERMANY

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2726, 22 March 1916, Page 3

CENSORED VOICES OF GERMANY

THE HUN PRESS

FAMILIAR NAMES IN THE WAR .'■.:'. DISPATCHES

Mr. Frederick Wile (correspondent for the "Daily Mail" in Berlin before the. war) contributes some interesting notes lon some of the more prominent German newspapers whose names hava becomo familiar by their frequent appearance in the war dispatches: "Borliner Tageblatt." Organ of democratic and Eadioal Liberalism: foren.ost mouthpiece of Judaism and commercial classes. Before the war it was anathema in Government and Prussian military and aristocratio circles. _In Sir Edward Goschen's final interview with'tho German .Foreign Office it was denounced by von Jagow- as _ the pestilential 'Tageblatt,' " which issued an i "extra" announcing war with &nglan<l before Germany wished it made public. The."Tageblatt" for years was the only newspaper for which the. Government bad respect ,bc'cause of it* courage in attacking aggressive foreign_ and reactionary domestic policy. It has printed the brilliant war correspondence ot Hernhard Kellermann. a distinguished novelist; its editor is Thcodor Wolff, who is hated and. feared by the boyeminent cliquo. , Bernhard Georg. Political editor of the "yossisohe Zeitung," ancient mouthpiece of olaseical Liberalism, known as "Aunt Voss" on account, of its venerable'history and once-dignined kmo. TTuder. BernhaTd, the "Vpssischo Zeitung" "has outdone its contemporaries in violence of language and views, especially towards Britain. It belongs to Ullstain Brothors, fire young men who own a chain of newspapers, periodicals, and libraries. ■■. . ■ "Cologne Gazette." ,The chief semiofficial organ, Its Berlin representative is practically an attache ot vthe'German Foreign Office, which hands him hie "copy" ready for the printer. . "Frankfurter Zeitung." Principal orE an of financial classes. Once sane of time and a journalistic mouthpiece of the German money universe, it, now trotns i with Anglophobia. . Owned by brothers named.Simon. Favourite organ of berman diplomacy in Turkey and Near :■ "Hamburger Naohrichten." Organ of implacable Bismnrckian and'■-defunct German shipping. The w«ta» f Hamburg impels the "Nachnohton to vie with B eventlow in tlie '.Gott strafe England" policy. Before the war it rejoiced in assailing .the Kaiser s excesses and'eccentricities and the gyrations of German diplomacy. Harden. Maximilian. Protege of Bismarck. Editor of the vitriolic, icononlastio weekly, : ''Zukvmft" ■ (Future) Exnoser of Eulenburg-Moltke social and political scandal, ivhich ho .stirred up primarily with the view of nominating the rottenness of Prussian Court lito. Hated and feared, Harden .'possesses the greatest fund of underground political information in Germany. . "Lokal-Anzeiger." Once Berlin s most popular halfpenny morning and evening daily, now a- "kept" Government organ. Purchased in 1912 from its. founder, Scherl, bv a "patriotic syndicate, in, eluding Kruppvon Bc-hlen- and other war-partv and political magnates. _ Moraht, Major. .Military otitic of the "BorlinerTageblatt." •'. •_'„■, I "North German Gazette." t Called a newspaper by courtesy; actiia lyian <# rial document 'published daily by _tU Government for the purpose of moulding public opinion. The. only. ««.£*?. "Norddeutacho- Allgememe Zeitung ever read by anybody else, are thoss laid on desks of editors and foreign correspondents in Berlin. ,■ . ■ ' Tress Bureau, 1 German. Founded by Bimarck to mislead opinion at home and abroad, the .bureau during fifteen years has been managed by, Ur. utto Hammann, who, a' born intriguer, possessed enormous influence over all Chancellors and Foreign Secretaries, under whom he nominally "served." He and two satellites,-Esternaux and Hcilbron. are chieflv responsible for the service of lies, extenuations, and-subterfuges with which the German and neutral Press from time to time is drenched., tlammann was once indicted for. perjury. Wireless,' German. "News" service convDiled by the Foreign Office to tell belligerents and.neutrals what the German authorities want the world to believe. Flashed daily from great, central wireless station of Naiien''near, Potsdam), whose radius extends to. the coasts of ! Africa. Immensely serviceable to Germans since the'_ .GermanAtlantic cable" was cut bv British onus-, ■.. ers on August 5, 1914. .The " w ' r ? <* s " is sent out in the knowledge that it will ,be "picked.up." .■'~ „ . ■■ Wolff Agency. Nominally privately- \ owned news agency, hut actually subsidised semi-official concern.