MONARCHIST PROPAGANDA.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2134, 29 May 1920, Page 4

MONARCHIST PROPAGANDA.

PURCHASE OE NEWSPAPERS.ileans to. prosecute the Monarchist campaign in Germany are not .vanting, and were not wanting when it was considered advisable to propagate the. idea of the annexation of neighbouring territory that would he serviceable to Germany on account of its mineral wealth or strategic value, wrote a correspondent jcccnlly from Berlin. The so-called Schwer Industrie ironworks and rolling mills have made fabulous profits during the war, and have used them liberally in an endeavour to inlluenee public opinion. The newspapers the combine already controls do not apparently suffice, however, to accompli-,h its present purpose, and according to Vonvaerts, Herron ISugenherg and St limes, who control immense intors iii the E.-.sen district, and their

friends, have founded a publishing firm in Berlin named Veritas Ver--1 who-e task it, is to buy jip as many newspapers as possible. The Socialist newspaper stales that a few wrecks ago the important publishing house of Buexenstein, in Berlin, was purchased by this group for 12,500,000 marks, and that a rumour is current that the.group has approached the company which owns the Berlin Lokalunziegor,” Dor Tag, and the illustrated weeklies Die Woche and Gartenlaube, to mention only the most important publications, Vonvaerts also hears that the Hugenberg-Slinncs trust, actuated no doubt, by the knowledge that an attempt to establish new reactionary comb' and satirical illustrated papers would he a failure, has bought up Simplieissinms and Kladderadalseh. Voerwaorts asserts that this manner of capturing public opinion is not restricted to Berlin, but has been already extended to the provinces, where German national newspapers have been Iminded in several centres, or existing newspapers bought up to bo converted into disseminators of propaganda for the great cause.