The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1915. HUN ORGANISATION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 18, 20 September 1915, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1915. HUN ORGANISATION.

~, •„• , , ,-T—. '«.„-. » ir I - : T)i«, thorpwgline r ss,< oi M German .organ-} isation in'preparing, fpr, eyer.v expected liapi>iMiiiig f ,aii<if««V4^»»j.ii<xl» , «lin}z; with some quite unexpected eventualities is an outstanding feature of idle campaign „-jsdl fflllilie direct, to the whining Hun cry that they did not waut wa.r ( .a.'ld. had. no desire I'or world domination. In tiie Paris' Temps ,recently; theriv.appeatell'an ao, count of how Germany has operated on American public, opinion through the newspapers, and it ,is .that out of a total of about 22.0(H) newspapers, reviews, and magazines published in Anierica no fewer than eighteen hundred are published in German. Apart from these publications, six thousand more are owned and controlled by German's, and Germans hold large interests hi half of the remainder. The' German organisation, headed by Dr. Dernburg, did not confine itself to making the German-owned or control-] led pipers—some of them very oldestablished organs with names known throughout the world—exceedingly aggressive; it gives close attention to the manipulation of the genuine American Press, and for this purpose' enormous sums of money were expended. Heady-made "copy'' was freely supplied to any paper which would use it. and this was, of course, the sort of "copy" best suited to fur- ( ther Germany's interests. Invitations were given to many journals to send representatives to the front, and rt | good many journalists were sent, pro-, vided with warm letters of introduction to the German military authori-, ties, and even to the Emperor, who gladly received them and converted j them to his uses. It is quite on the cards that something of this has been.' and possibly even now. is taking place in Knglaud. Notwithstanding this very cunning move' of the Germans in Anierica. the great weight of American opinion has been steadily growing in favor of the Allies' cause and the German game is just completely ex-. posed.