GERMAN MISCHIEF MAKING

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 18, 16 October 1917, Page 5

GERMAN MISCHIEF MAKING

STRIFE PROPAGANDA. In the Prize Court, London, 011 July 13, before the President (Sir Samuel Evans), says the "Daily Telegraph," tho Attorney-General asked for the condemnation of a large quantity of seditious German seized on three; ve3Oranje, 515 hags; tho Rembrandt, GB7 bags; and the Goentoer, 331 lwgs. All these bogs, 6aid Sir Frederick Smith, contained a great dcil of seditious literature circulated by the Intelligence Department of tho German Foreign Office. Attempts had been made to flood neutral countries with this propaganda of Beditious. matter. Tho thing was on the largest jwssiblo scale, and had been carried out with all the official ingenuity and thoroughness which generally mnrked such attempts in Germany. Fortunately it had miscarried, and tons of literature had not reached the neutral destination for which it was intended. There were some six namphlets, and the whole tralk of tfiem had been seized as not proper to be carried on neutral vessels.' One found on tho Oranje was entitled "Fidelity of Irtdia to England," • and the information which had become available to the British authorities showed that in every nentral town of importance the Germans had appointed an agent whose special duty it was to circulate this pernicious literature. There woro both French and Dutch editions of this pamphlet, and there was a thoroughness about 'tho whole reptile business which was very interesting. .Another parcel of pamphlets, entitled "Islam's Glory," was intended to do what good it could in 'Shanghai. In the translation occurred tho passage:— "Here tho observer will 6ee that the English, after throwing the dead bodies on the gravel, began to flog the innocent people, nmidst tho cries of the children, the wailing of the women, and the weeping of the men. The flogging was with scourges."

A third pamphlet, called "English Rule in India," of which there was a French and two Spanish editions, was being sent as far as Bolivia. The official envelopes in which the pamphlets were enclosed showed that they emanated from tho Intelligence Department of the German Foreign Office, and there was a series of wrappers containing seditious pamphlets in the same handwriting. It was depressing lo see so much energv wasted.

His Lordship: I see some worn posted in Copenhagen and some in Sweden. The Attorney-General: And =onie in Berlin lo every pari of the. world. Hie Lordship rondemnod I lie whole of llio literature seized.