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GERMAN REFORMERS

NEWSPAPER CAMPAIGN FROM SWITZERLAND. The friends of German democracy in tho TTniled Stales, through wide-awake Americans in Berne, have discovered that there is a little bi-weekly paper published at Annemasse, on (ho Franco-Swiss frontier, called tlio ''Free Gazette" ("Freio Zeitung"), which (states n "Daily Mail" correspondent), may play a very important part in tho enlightenment of the Germans of the United states. In I their practical way, tlw Americans have (horeforo ordered copies for distribution theie. Its influcnco will be immense. The hard-working editor of tho paper, a German reformer called J)r. ijchliobcn, beamed all over his faco when ho told mo his good news over a cup of (ea yesterday. I suggested to him' that our authorities might perhaps Ik induced to introduce his papor, winch is an honest expression of German ideals of internal democratic reform ni expressed or Germans now fugitive in Switzerland, into die British internment camps, where it might havo an equally illuminating effect Wo should of course, t-over etoojV to forcing forged news on helpless prisoners, as the Germans do on our .interned men, by means of the notorious "Continental Times," but we enould bo quito justified in laying before, our prisoners Iho democratic views of German reformers liko Schlieden, Roesemeier, Nippold, Fcrnau, and others, freely expressed in a free country liko Switzerland, whore any* false or distorted statement would nt once be pounced upon by tho Gorman legation here as a ground for stopping'the paper. Tho "Freo Gazette" is written by serious and enlightened jjicn preaching a German republic, and its great valuo eonsists in tho fact that ils editor, through' Ids personal relations with Germans, has been iririo to-get hold of an invaluable mass of documentary evidence, vhic 11 o German papers and the ?'* neutral Press for various reasons think it good to euppwffl. The paper has no* been in existence for more ftan . jear, and it is proposed lo republic! in book

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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 201, 14 May 1918, Page 5

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GERMAN REFORMERS Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 201, 14 May 1918, Page 5

GERMAN REFORMERS Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 201, 14 May 1918, Page 5

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