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ful lead from their bureaux, they simply shut their eyes very tightly indeed, just As the ostrich of our childhood's stories thrystiahead into the sand, and said out lond:

It isn't there! They simply, crisply lied, in the good round German way. nad dismissing Mesines-Wyts chrate in three lines about "uctuations" proceeded in thirty to record with entusiasm the striking victories of one or two valiant three-mer. patrols down routh.

line." etc. Tanite

etc. It is an adgir ahle plaand in keeping with the best traditions-od" Germanism."

During the process of the German re trent from the Anere front, the outsido world bepan to make remarks, and there [By A. J. Dawsas. Author of "The

was a certain angry restlessness obsery Message," "bomme Pattle

able in fiermany, where the winter had

"and" Stories" etc.).

wearying The seribes proved long During the month of May, and indeed were carefully instructed and every right up to dowth, the efforts of the effort made to murd against the danger of angore failing to recognise that this

It is all nonsense for German mal- German propagandists and military retirement was in good German truth'

grities," still sn-unlled though for some & form of victorious advance. Any hint contents to pretend that Iron Crosses cannot really be earned behind ink-pots. kong time past so severely disciplined as of Allied attack was met with proud as

be in fact the merest mouthpieces and sertions thas the miserable incompetente Some of these ingenious and hard worked who pretended to lead the Franco-literary champions of "Germanist" (or aboes of their official propaganda British Armies would very soon have hariaux, have been unanimously and cause marvel at their own temerity in docilely concentrated upon demonstrat ever dreaming of pitting their miserable insignificance against the omniscience ing that the Allied offensive was at an of a Hinderberg and a Ludendorf and, und that its end was a disroul failure. (This ie po exaggeration of their asser

Disinclined to trust the Lewis Carrol. tions) Terrible things were

and the "granite front and the isn maxim that if you repeat a thing bery line bogey were worked for a good three times it must be true, they have whilst at the same time, all thought of deal more than ni they ever were worth: many of them repeated quite thirty attaching serious importancet three times that the Allies offensive was intervention was cheerfully ridiculed, over, and that it had ended in failure and attractive pictures were drawn of most lamentable for us; incat deinoralis the long strides Famine was taking in its march upon hated England and the

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PRISONERS OF WAR.

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The operations whith. Faster brought. The vas: bulk are Rassian. British at Arras, and the Vimy Ridge, followed prisoners are given as (5,241, including by the magnificently successful advance 11,706 oficers and 43,635 men, distributed of the French troops to the south, formed as follows: an awkward comment upon the writings

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by many that their humiliating experiBritish in their hopeless race with Death ences in 1916, when they repeatedly an- and extinction. Bounced that all resistance had "been overcome at Verdon and that the capture of that historic fortress was imminent, would for ever eure these

the exploiters of the Hindenberg Officers valiant scribesof their boastfulness. Con-

bogey, and the invincible granite wall Men sequently it might have doris, if these gen- But as the seribes had time to draw

31 098 11,453 tlemen were independent writers, though breath they began to carry out ordera Total 32,309

Of prisoners of war other than British

KATASIZENED A.D. 1880. knowledge of the German temperament and explain that these dying kicks were and study of the influences of Kultur to be expected from a desperate enemy, the Germanic allies claim to hold the

TRON STEEL HETAL sad HARD certainly do not incline one to optimism who haste and despair were forced following

Germany bolds altogether 1890731WARE MEROHANTS. Wanical on such a point. German boastfulness upon him, not only by our heroes in

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Total keepers and Shipahandiers Nos 95 of unspectacular consolidation

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8,329, 182,278 and the other German propagandists and work, the offensive-at-an-end" plaster French...

2,234 95,783 41.779 military writersare no no more indepen-was applied with great firmness and Italian...

all inconveniens comment closured. Belgian

-77,197 dent vehicles of opinion than the puppets

... 806 153,734 of the Punch and Judy mun. They get Where an Allied advance was big entragh Rumanian 1,530

5,078 their orders, like any other navo of to lock ugly on the map, the older Serbise the German machine, the soul destroy objective nostrum came into ass again, Montenegrin 31°

The British prisoners taken by the ing horror that is called "Germanista" and that has the inestimable advantage.

unlimited voluntary elasticity" enemy are amail, in numbers when the and they carry them out, often, as the of

with a like the Hindenborg line itself for one size of the Army is taken into considera charitably disposed assUIDE,

can always say, if the worst comes to the tin. Germans captured by the British LONDON DIRECTORY. heavy beart, and a rising grey west, that the enemy's real objective on the west, front, alma number aver

And so these writers day after have continued to repeat that the Anglo was the Rhine, and see how, bepelessly 78,000.. French offensive was all over, and that he has failed to reach it

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