GERMAN PROPAGANDA

Hokitika Guardian, 5 January 1922, Page 2

GERMAN PROPAGANDA

LORI) NORTHCLIFFE’S WARNING. GRAVE DANGER IN FAR EAST. “THE TIMES” SERVICE _ LONDON, Jan. 3. Lord Northcliffe interviewed at Colombo said Germany was expanding Berlin’s propaganda enormously in the East by daily wireless news, also by subsidised papers and films. He had seen German wireless news daily tapped during the voyage disclosing misleading lies concerning the Washington Conference, affairs in Egypt and India, war gloominess, and, condition of British trade. This, the foreign vernacular writers are hungrily . absorbing. It emanates apparently from the same mischievous minds that were operating in wartime and is equally dangerous, owing to the present uncertainties. Excepting in half a dozen British owned journals, a tone is rapidly increasing in the eastern press inimical to England. A huge Japanese propaganda fund controls many agencies and newspapers in tlie East. It is not known in England that a majority of these foreign papers are under control of Germans, intent on stirring up trouble towards the English, ind for promoting the sale of German textiles, engineering, automobile and other products. The “Times” in a leader, commenting on this says the very weighty statements of Lord Northcliffe as to German activities in the Far East, should be a warning even to those placing trust in Germany’s repentance. Germany apparently is aiming to stir up trouble between the Anglo-French Anglo-American, Anglo-Japanese and Anglo-Indians. It spreads among the ignorant credulous population like mischievous half truths. It is more mischievous than in wartime, and Germany is lavishing money thereon, while she blindly assures us she desires nothing but a true, sincere peace, and that she is quite unable to pay anybody’s just debts.