GERMANS LEARNING THE TRUTH.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 233, 25 June 1915, Page 2

GERMANS LEARNING THE TRUTH.

— -C& That the truth about the war is dawning on the Germans at home is evident from the following passage from the “Zunkunft”: “When will it occur to the . German Press that it would be a really patriotic idea to clear the popular mind of the belief that it is only our fees who are adepts at lying and exaggeration. The fact is that we 031 cur part can show an almost equally inglorious record in that respect. And what is worse, while w-e can pass over the Lies of cur •enemies with contemptuous derision, our own lies injure our cause most seriously, as they break the people’s perspective of the war in a dangerous degree. We hold our sides with laughter on seeing a couple of Frenchmen congratulating one another ever the shooting of Liebknecht, ox’ two English hucksters speaking with hated breath of tire revolt of the Crown Prince and the Emperor’s suicide. Yet we may ask, How many thousands of Germans did not believe, as they were told to believe, in the promenade to Paris, in India’s revolt against England, in the dethronement of King George and of the Czar? It was neither children nor housemaids only who thought that the English hirelings and th e Russian Cossacks and naught else to do than to bury prisoners alive and to maltreat German women. These fables were and even are still credited by intelligent and educated Germans.”