IN THE FACE OF FACTS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3982, 15 July 1915, Page 3

IN THE FACE OF FACTS.

Lord Bryce's damning report on German atrocities lias, stung the

“Cologne Gazette” into the following string of denials, hurled in the face of facts: —

“This new, officially compiled collection of infamous lies ha®, of course, the same object as the calumnies recently uttered from the Government bench in the English Parliament with regard to the treatment of war prisoners in. Germany. It is intended to whip the people into enlisting in the army, arid thus improve England’s miserable military conditions. “This is also the purpose of the calumny, which is now apparently making its way through the English press in the form of documentary evidence, that Prince Kuppreclit of Bavaria has commanded that no more English prisoners are to be made, but that captured Englishmen are forthwith to be shot. On all fours' with those slanders are the lies about the crucified Canadian officers and the conspicuously indifferent attitude of the English police toward the anti-Ger-man excesses of the mob on account of the sinking of the Lusitania. ‘'Calumny Ts England’s best weapon, and now' that the water has risen to her throat she is making of it the most generous use.”