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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 1, 1940

NEW TACTICS OF DR.

GOEBBEL'S LIE_____

MACHINE

London, To-day.

DURING MARCH, THERE has been one interesting thing about Nazi propaganda, says a BBC Observer, in review of Nazi propaganda.

Dr. Goebbels' Propaganda Ministry is now trying hard to make people believe in its truthfulness. There are signs Goebbels is disturbed by the reaction to the fan- tastic Nazi claims at the beginning of the war in connection, for instance, with the Graf Spee battle, which the Germans first claimed as a "great victory," and the “sinking," repeatedly, of the Ark Royal.

These false claims have left their The real point, however, is that the mark and the Germans are now try-"Sunday Express" did not say anything ing to re-establish their reputation, of the kind. It only had one story even to the extent of apparently about Sylt and that was about British frankly admitting their own losses. | enterprise which had built the railway These admissions are not necessarily across the Hindenburg Dam. truthful, but they have admitted the loss of one 'plane almost as soon as the Air Ministry has announced it in London.

The idea is to create the impression of frankness, but things slipped badly over the Nazi raid on Scapa Flow and the R.A.F. raid on Sylt.

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On Friday, March 29, nearly every German broadcast gave a story pur- porting to have appeared in the "Daily Mail" that British pilots had been ques- tioned by court-martial for making false reports of their successes.

On Saturday, March 30, the "Dally Scapa Flow; London an- Mail" promptly came out with a no- nounced one warship was damaged,tice. This notice placed on record the not seriously, and it was not a following facts:- capital ship. There were gevon naval casualties and eight civilian casualties.

The Germans claimed they had seriously damaged three battleships and one cruiser and probably damag- ed two more warships.

CHEARST WOULD

You may believe that if you like; one or two American papers did but please remember, the precise claim one-fifth of the total capital ships of the Royal Navy. The future will show how much reliability there is in German news accounts.

Take the R.A.F. raid on Sylt: The Germans first announced one British 'plane was shot down This, according to London, was

the true figure.

But old habits got the better of Goebbels' Propaganda Boys and they raised the figure to three, and even- tually stepping it up to six.

In connection with this escalator principle, it should be remembered that according to Nazi 'philosophy,” truth is relative. The Nazis will have won one-half of the fight if they can persuade the world that Allled news la not reliable.

There has been another interesting phase the accusation against the B.B.C. and the British Press of saying something they did not say, and then proving that it is false.

CORRECT EXCEPT For instance, the German broad- cast to South American in Spanish at 3 a.m. on Saturday, alleged that the B.B.C. had stated that Wednes day and Thursday had been the most successful days for English aviation, since six or seven German 'planes and ад enemy patrol vessel had been destroyed.

The German announcer continued. that by claiming this, the BBC had refuted its own statements about the raids on Sylt, Kiel and Wilhelm- shaven. He was quite right-excapt that the BBC never made the state- ment attributed to It By the’German radiot

No such story had ever appeared In the "Daily Mail." Nothing re- motely resembling it had ever ap- peared in the "Daily Mail." The "Daily Mail" learned on the high- est authority that no court-martial of this description has ever been held.

There can be no question here of the Germans being badly mis-inform- ed; they simply made the story up and planted it on the "Daily Mail." These are aspects of the campaign to make the world believe the Nazi account of the war rather than the Allied version. It is worth remembering Hitler's Creed: "If you want a lie to be be- lieved, you must make it a big one."

-Reuter

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Copenhagen, To-day. The Danish papers print without comment an address given at a meet- ing of sporting associations by M. Hambro.“

HANS FRISCHER With regard to the British Press: Hans Frischer, who broadcasts to the

He declared his opposition to any German people in order to keep up foreign policy which considered such their faith in the Propaganda Minis- things as a Nordic alliance, which try, last Tuesday, said the “Sunday would merely be a facade and not Express had claimed in big type that reality-Havas. it had now become known that 32 German 'planes had been destroyed on the ground by British bombers on the raid on Sylt. Herr Frischer went on to elaborate; he told his audience which is, of course, not allowed to road the "Sunday Express"... that this "news report" had been based on in- formation from a German eye-witness broadcasting from a secret station...in Germany.

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