GERMAN LIES EXPOSED.

Taihape Daily Times, 27 July 1918, Page 5

GERMAN LIES EXPOSED.

SWISS EVIDENCE THAT BATTLE

LOSSES ARE BEING CONCEALED. Two interesting illustrations of the' unscrupulous nature of German .propaganda have just come to light. The "Berliner Tageblatt" printed a,.tele v gram, purporting to be sent to ;ths<; "Zuricher Post,' 'a Swiss'paper, by its Paris correspondent, describing tUe devastating effects of the bombardment of Paris, which went so far~as to say that the South of France, was rilled with refugees from the capital. The "Zuricher Post" now protests that its Paris correspondent said nothing of the sort. The "Berliner 1 Tageblatt" invented the "telegram,*' for the double purpose of raising tn"e German moral and arousing French feeling against Switzerland.

The other case shows equal ingenuousness on the part of the Germans. The "Gazette de Lausanne" lately published an estimate of recent German losses. It was stated in the article that the German papers are now no longer a guide to the number or casualties, as since April 15 the publication of notices of deaths has been forbidden. The German Minister in Switzerland, Herr Romberg, now writes to the "Gazette de Lausanne" contradicting the last statement, and enclosing a few papers published since April 15. But the Swiss paper points put that although these contain fewer death notices, curiously enough very nearly all the dead were holders of the Iron Cross. An issue of the "Tagliche Rundschau," 'for example, had a list of 55 dead, all decorated with the Iron Cross, except four soldiers whose deaths were advertised by their

employers, etc. The "Gazette de Lausanne" now asks if Iron Cross heroes are specially vulnefable. If not, why is it that the deaths of undecorated soldiers are not advertised by their own relatives"! Clearly the Germans are attempting to suppress any knowledge of their losses. " I THE COLOUR LINE. | Negroes are now reinforced by « j State law Id New York in their right I to patronise any place of puDiic —«. commodation, entertainment, or education, and may be lawfully excluded only from places of a private nature, such as clubs and institutions run for j a particular restricted purpose. This ! legislation for the coloured race is the broadest interpretation of civil rights ! on the statutes of any American State. The bill specifically cites a long list j of places of accommodation, enter-1 tainment, or education which would fall in such classes; for instance, hos- j pitals, hotels, restaurants, theatres schools, colleges, and many more. |