FROM A GERMAN LIE FACTORY.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 161, 12 March 1915, Page 3

FROM A GERMAN LIE FACTORY.

The most amazing untruths concerning Great Britain are daily circulated in Berlin for the purpose of deceiving the German public into the belief that that country is in a state of panic. Here are a few of these gems, which make up in humour what they lack in veracity:— "Sir John Jellicoe is to be tried for incapacity. ’ ’

"The immediate resignation of Mr. Winston Churchill is expected." "The organ of the Labour Party demands that the whole Cabinet shall be impeached for participation in the war." ’

"The Indian troops in France were told before leaving India that they were being taken to Europe for exhibition purposes." "Half of London is burnt down, and Zeppelins are always hovering over it. Plymouth has also been destroyed by fire caused by bombs from the air." "Mr. Asquith has fled from England, and is hiding in Ireland."

"The citizens of London now hurry hither and thither like scared mice because their battalions of football-kick-ing louts arc melting away before the fire of the German artillery. ’

"Instead of blowing their victims from the mouths of their guns as they did in the Indian Mutiny, the British now employ the truly humane and gently acting dum-dum bullets, with the approval of Lord Kitchener." "The French Government pays for the support of the British troops, so that each man draws on a day on which there is no fighting four francs, while on each fighting-day he is entitled to eight francs. The British are also completely clothed and fed by the French. ’ ’

“The deeds of the Gonna - :: Fleet arc already causing the Lords of the Admiralty sleepless nights. while on hoard the British ships fearful apprehension Ln ks in every corner.” “ ‘Gome into the Army.’ savs the recruiting sergeant to tin* youths. 'You shall have a villa in Rome, a bungalow cm the Mediterranean, and in , two months you shall be King of the Belgians.’ ”