YANKEE WAR LIES.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 February 1917, Page 3

YANKEE WAR LIES.

*— m FAKED BRITISH DISASTERS. HEARSrrs "NEWS" SERVICE, The Sydney censor 1 has handed to the press copies of the announcement made by the Official Press Bureau, London, m October, which proscribed certain American newspapers. It has already been stated that the trouble occurred with the Hearst group of journals, which published a garbled .account of the Jutland battle, and said the British .Admiralty admitted an overwhelming defeat. The message purported to hare been cabled by the International News Service correspondent, but investigation proved that he had not sent it, and the inference was obvious, that tiie staitling "news" had been faked in the most approved style of yellow journalijin. An ample apology and a promise not to do it again were tendered. But the rebellion in Ireland was too tempting a chance for the friends of Germany to miss. The hyphenated Americans woro brazenly buoyed up with the assertion that "all Ireland is in a blaze of rebellion" and so forth.- Another apuh.gy and another glibly made promise soothed the complacent- British officials. In September, however, a Zeppelin raid set the imaginative Yank to work again—"London in flames—Most damage to the city before the war began—Large lives in the city." Again, it was proved (.haft the correspondent in England had not cabled a word of the grossly exaggerated reports. At last British red tape was tied around a closed book, in which the final order was thnt the International News Service was debarred f»om the further use of facilities for the news. Hearst's now lu-.ve to rely largeiy on Wolf's German ingenuity for "information" and the American public know exactly how much that is worth.