THE Pukekohe and Waiuku Times. PUBLISHED ON TUESDAY AND FRIDAY AFTERNOONS. TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1917 THE DELUDED GERMANS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 240, 9 January 1917, Page 2

THE Pukekohe and Waiuku Times.

PUBLISHED ON TUESDAY AND FRIDAY AFTERNOONS.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1917 THE DELUDED GERMANS.

The Official Organ of : The Franklin County Council. The Pukekohe Borough Council. The Tuakau Town Board. The Karaka Road Board. The Manukau County Council. The Raglan County Council. The Wairoa Road Board. The Papakura Town Board. The Waikato River Board. The Mercer Town Board. The Manurewa Town Board The Manurewa Road Board.

" We nothing extenuate, nor let down auaht in malice."

The suppression of the troth is a notable feature in the process of deluding the German nation, and we are told that to this day it has had no official admission of the defeat of its armies on the Marne. The man in the street in Germany still implicitly believes that the retreat from the Marne was a brilliant and voluntary "stragetic movement," and as for the soldiers, they were told tbat the promised reward of debauchery in Paris bad to be postponed on account of the outbreak nf a plague of cholera there. Whenever any success has attended German submarine or aerial raids, or rather, whenever such a raid was attempted, and sometimes even without an attempt, Berlin and all the rest of Germany have been regaled with lurid descriptions ot the damage done and of the terror and panic created in British hearts. The atrocities io Belgium, at which all the rest of tbe world has shuddered in despair for civilisation, are firmly believed in Germany to have been merely "legitimately watlike operations"; and when, bv any chance, word of the more heinous crimes filtered through tbsy were at once ascribed to the necessity for exercising reprisals upon a bloodthirsty toe. The sinking ot the Lusitania is deemed to have been justified "because she carried munitions of war," and tbe pictorials carefully sketched into their illustrations quite an array of quick-firing guns on the forecbHtle. The Zeppelin raids have, perhapn, been the most fruitful source of German delusions, although, of course, the submarines

run them clos?. TaHs of the Kritieh metrop lis hiving been hid in ruina have beei circulated to otten that one has to wor.der what kind of genius for reconstruction the Gertnai s must imacm the Biitish possess. Wooi.vich has been anmb'latei rno'e than once, ard devastation has so frequently been spread through the heart of industrial England, and especially the great munition centres, that the Lie Bureau must surely be bird put to it to explain the statements that, in ordar to extenuate the reverses on the Somme, haw r.ow to be made with regard ti Britain's overwhelming artillery bombardments. Ii connection with the British naval blockade, the olhcial liars have bad to steer most deviojs courses. Tbey wanted at once to create the impression that it. was wholly ineffective, and at the same time elicit sympathy for mothers and babies etarvir g through Britain's wholly illegitimate action. Similarly, "tba fre;d»m of the eeaa" has been a continual slogan to incite tbe indignation and enmity of neutrals against Britain, but hae lost most of iis forca from Germany's own submarine campaign against tbe shipping of those same neut'als. Despite the fact that hundreds of thousands ut Britain's overseaa subjects have flocked to the Imperial standard and fought valiantly undar it, the Dimii.ios have bean persistently represented as wholly indifferent to tbe fate of tbe Motherland, and ready for revolt. What u<o has ce?n made of Australia's anti-conscription vote may well be imagined. Should there be any timid mortal! who may oe inclined to accept the emanations from Germany as to the (earful consequences which will follow upon the Allies' rejection of tbe peace terms, the above should be reassuring. Having hoodwinked their own people they now seek to bluff those abroad by glowing dissertions upon their great might and ample reaouicea. The fact cannot be ignored, however, that she has aaked for peace, and anyone who knows Germany and the Germans

will Dot need any prompting as to

the significance of that