WHO ARE THE HUNS?

The Triple Entente's Vendetta of Lies. 211
and was thus able to judge with his own eyes the falseness of
this disgraceful statement and to estimate the profound corruption
of mind by which it was inspired.
Again and again we are forced to ask ourselves: Why do
all the neutral nations tolerate this unparalleled and monumental
humbugging and deception without offering the slightest
protest? Bjôrn Bjôrnson is absolutely right when, in an open
letter to Georges Clemenceau, he speaks of "the inexhaustible
garbage of calumny directed against the German people" to
which the neutral newspapers succumb, and when he alludes
to fantasies which "draw their sustenance from the sewers
of Paris."
The German army authorities were forced to call repeated
attention to similar "faked" stories of the French General
Staff. The army order (ist Army) of General Dubail of
the 5th of April, 1915, belongs to a similar category. It
bristles with untruths, concocted to inflame the courage of
the soldiers. Then there is the Order of the Day, dated March 2,
191,5, with all its signs of a guilty conscience—which forbids
all intercourse with comrades who are prisoners of war. It
closes with the unbelievable statement: "In reality our prisoners
in Germany are dying of hunger" (crèvent de faim). Anything!
—everything in order to start hatred flaming anew!
III. There was complete cooperation in this work. The
chief lie-organs of the French, and their tutors, the "Times"
and "Daily Mail," do not merely feed each other with all this
slanderous stuff—but also all the Francophile newspapers of
neutral countries. It might prove an interesting, perhaps even
grateful, task to make a register of all this idiocy, in order that
one might see how much may be laid at the doors of these
paragons among the civilized nations.
Great feats, in this respect were also achieved by a portion
of the Italian press, especially the "Secolo," and the "Corriere
della Sera." Follows an example: The Paris Correspondent of
the paper repeats a description which, it is alleged, was written
by a native of Luxemburg to the "Figaro." In this the writer
gives an account of the fate that has overtaken his native
land. Here we may read:
"The Germans seized the Grand Duchess, a pretty girl
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