SPAIN.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 May 1918, Page 5

SPAIN.

GERMAN PROPAGANDA. ' circulated in spain. , ; Washington, May ft The State Department has issued & copy at a document circulated in Spain by a German propagandist wliich the State Department says is of undoubted German origin. ■ The document says:—The Germans have taken incalculable booty in Prance and Belgium as the result of the ctnpM, • stubbornness of the Belgian people in 1 continuing the strangle eifter defeat. Finos totalling 120,071,000 pesetas hare I been imposed on wealthy individuals ; t and citizens, this figure Including IBjflOO ■■■ pesetas fines imposed on Alsatiaß children who insisted on Speaking French 1 . More than 50.000 British prisoners 1 have been taken as against 124,809 Ger- ■ mans by the British, tut it must be remembered the British treat prisoners . with notable kindness, wJiile the German ■ • treats British prisoners -with extreme - rigor, so that the Germans have leenred '< a superior mora! effect. Several thou- " sand British prisoners have died through disease and scanty food, and oftersfrom accidents. - Tf any neirtral# are thinking "of siding, with the Allies, they had besf take Warning. The statements were circulated Before the offensive of March' 21 Ata.-N.'Z. Cable Asisoc. The document says that Germany 'will y i not lose her African colonies, as British Ministers declared they did inot htfamJ to increase the holdings of the British Empire.—Press Association. »