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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 67, 13 December 1918, Page 6

A French author, Dr. Lucien Granx, notes it writer in the "Mercure do France," has published a work on "False News During the Great War," Beginning with 1789, ! he tolis how false news was put out during the Revolution and Consulate; he docs the same for the Empire, the Franco-Prussian War, the Commune, and finally for the conflict just ended. Dr. Graux aims really at the folly of a censorship that tries to cover up disasters with lies. He quotes, for instance, some of the false conimuiyques given out by the Germans. "Tho Commune had gained control in Paris; M. Poincare ; had been assassinated; .Socialism had gained the upper hand in the French armies, which refused to continue tho fight," The work cuds at the battle of tho Marne; but a continuation is to follow, which should bo of even greater interest than tho first instalment. It will do the censorship establishments of all the belligerent countries a worjrt of good, states the writer, to see themselves in the ridiculous mirror of their past performances.

Colonel Sw.ly, M.P., addressing a meeting, in the East Midlands, of workmen engaged in this manufacture of tanks, said ho spoke the literal truth when he declared that he, and hundreds of others with whom he had been in action, would certainly have been dead but for the tanks. With tho tanks available casualties were relatively small. There was no doubt that on a certain day the tanks saved Amienß.