WHO ARE THE HUNS?

228 The Triple Entente's Vendetta of Lies.
It is difficult for the Germans to reply to these charges,
since the Russians, in nearly all cases, prefer not to mention,
the place and time of the alleged violations of international
law. When these points have been mentioned, investigation
by the Germans has immediately followed. By means of their
new tactics the Russians have the obvious intention of rendering
futile all serious investigation of their charges, and of preventing,
the falseness of their statements from being exposed. Thisattitude
of the Russians can be explained only by the fact that
their charges have not the slightest foundation and are nothing:
more than lies which are intended to throw mud upon the
honor of our troops from some safe coign of vantage." *
Wherever no mention is made of place or date, the neutrals,,
for whom this "news" is chiefly intended, have the best reason
for assuming that it is nothing but sheer invention.
The "Novoie Vremia" on the 8th of June, 1915, publishes
an open letter to the Reuter Bureau, in which it accuses this
news agency of reporting the bulletins of the Russian General
Staff in a very sparse and unreliable manner. An example is
given, as follows: When, according to official German reports
it had been firmly established that the third and eighth Russian
armies no longer existed and that the whole Carpathian Army
had been annihilated, the "Reuter Rureau" contents itself with
reporting harmless little battle episodes. This open letter
addressed to Reuter, is no doubt, a concealed attack upon the
Russian General Staff, which keeps secret the most important
facts—since Reuter had in reality reported all the communiquésof
the Russian General Staff up to the present time.
The Russian Moujik was to be forced to believe that the
terrible defeat the Russians suffered in Galicia, with a loss
of 300 000 prisoners and the surrender of all Galicia, was a
Russian "victory." After a small town in East Prussia had
been taken by storm, the Russian soldiers were stuffed with
the lie that they had now captured Berlin and that the campaign
was ended ! This poor and brutalized people seems destined
never to know the truth. Were it only to guess this, then the
mighty revolution which would shatter this colossus of clay
would follow as the day follows the night.