LIES FOR ITALIAN CONSUMPTION

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 109, 25 January 1918, Page 5

LIES FOR ITALIAN CONSUMPTION

f AUSTRIAN WAR FABLES. The Austriahs apparently have the same playful way as the Gormans of trying to spread untruths among the Allies' soldiers in the field. In a recent issue of the "Corriere della. Sera, one of Italy's war correspondents writes, under the heading, "Kuiissiom di g ils » : _"From time to time, the Austrians shoot on our trenches y™ strange munitions. Where the two lines are very near to each other wo sometimes hear voices telling the Italians to bo on their guard. And from the othor trenches there arrives a bomb. It does not burst. It only opens up and scatters a quantity ot handbills. They aro of several sizes, and aro printed in red, white, - and green paper, in order to convey a- more Friendly appearance. The information thus conveyed professes a brother y feeling for us, and says the Italian soldiers Mo not know wlml is happening in their' own country. And the good foe hurries up to inform them. One manifesto from the enemy reads: Italian soldiers: At the inslaneo of the Italian Government. French and luiglish soldiers aro working machine-guns in the streets of Mitano and lonno, killing down,old reservists, who retrod to come to'the front and t inse who Bido with them. Numberless hilled and wounded.' Another mnmlesto reads: ■There are in Italy 10,000 English, and daily tho number increases, Ihey are vised as police. Tboy occupy your seaports, your railways; they have your trades in their hands, and they bully everyone in vour city, pitilessly killing those who ask for bread and peace. Another, leaflet from the oncmy sets out that the Italian pcoplo are tired ot the war, and in consequence of demonstrations in the streets asked for immediate peace.''English and French troops wero asked to advance with cannons and .machine-guns, using their weapons on tho people, and also mi Italian troops. Among those killed, it was added, were many Italian officers and women and babes. 'Your superiors,' mys another of tho Austrian leaflets 'will tell vou that we !.c, but you will later on bo convinced yourselves that t'hey hide the truth from you. If your corrupt Government will not give you peace, it is your turn, as free citizens, to compel it to do so. If you have not yet r.ome to this, go now with weapons in your hands to make common cause with your own countrymen m revolt against, a winter campaign.'"