GERMAN TRICKS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 22, 14 September 1914, Page 4

GERMAN TRICKS.

The tricks that the Germans have adopted from time to time to present the war case in a shape favorable to themselves would doubtless fill a book, and later on we may expect to have' the details of some of these interesting sidelights of the war, the Lyttelton Times opines. Evidently they are making the tidiest possible use of wireless telegraphy, and one cannot but marvel at the attention they have paid to details throughout the business. At the very outset of the trouble, even before war had .actually been declared, every German wireless station that could possibly manage it doubled its power, the intention being, no doubt, to gain control of the world's wireless. The steamer Wiltshire, from Liverpool, which arrived at Sydney last week, had a typical experience with the German wireless station at Swakopmund, near Walfish Bay. As she was steaming down the African coast she got her first news of the outbreak of hostilities by overhearing a message from the German •station, and she at once asked for information, naturally without getting it. Then her own wireless apparatus was virtually put out of commission by tkrinterruptions from Swakopmimd, which was deliberately swamping or "jamming" .British ships to prevent them from either receiving or sending messages. The German wireless station in East Africa did the same sort of thing—until it was put out of action.