BELLIGERENT SLAM

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 14, 11 October 1917, Page 5

BELLIGERENT SLAM

GERMAN PRESS ANNOYED. The action taken by Siam lias obviously had a serious effect on-the nerves of the German National Liberals, for one of their most influential provincial organs, the Leipzig "Neueste Nachrichten," had a very excited leading article on the matter recently. -This journal attributes the defection of Siam to the .circumstance that Germany is unable to counteract the malign influence of English newspapers and news agencies by giving tho Siamese a true account of the tremendous successes gained by the German arms on land and eea. The journal considers also that some of the blame falls on the pathetic clumsiness with which Berlin, even eo late in the day, attempts to influence foreign nations by quite childish means, proving that "we Germans do not yet understand how to conduct nu intellectual and Kultur propaganda." "jnatead'of Inking steps to prevent tho distribution in Siam of maps mado in England, in which England is shown half tho size of Europo and Germany is shown about as large as the County of Kent," the Leipzig National' Liberal newspaper continues, "wo confined ourselves to flattering American millionaires." After drawing attention to the consequences and results of Ihie policy, the journal asserts that Siam is virtually the victim of an atrocity campaign conducted by the Entente, and doca not wonder that a 1 ation so far removed from German influence should finally doubt the honesty of the German cause when "it is informed daily■for throe years not only by printed word but also by means of pictures by the bestknown French and English artists, that our ' nation in arms is composed of nothing but murderers, tbioves, and drunkards, and that our soldiors do nothing but torture children to death and vinloAA women in enenjj cooatries."-