attitude of Russia, in view of the resumption of negotiations at
Vienna."

And a leaflet distributed in the streets of London said that "a war for
Russia is a war against civilization."

So much as to the preparations for the war--and now we take up the
conduct of the war itself.

By glancing at the foreign press during this one week we have been able
to collect the following specimen pieces of news:

London--The British Admiralty reports that the English fleet had
driven back the German fleet to the Dutch coast.

There is not one word of truth in this. The Admiralty itself appears
later to have recovered its senses; at least, it denied a Reuter story
about a "great English naval victory near the Dogger Bank." But the
English manufactories of lies are already so actively at work that
members of Parliament have protested in the House itself against the
"lying reports of the English press."

Paris--From Paris the assertion was made and disseminated
throughout the world that "the landing of English troops in Belgium
has begun; they were enthusiastically received by the population.
The landing proceeded rapidly and in the best order, as the
agreement between the two General Staffs guaranteed the perfect
carrying out of the disembarkment plans."

Not a single word of this is true. At present not one English soldier
has been landed.

In a similar way the Baltic Sea has become the scene of invented
"battles"--of "German defeats," of course; the Russian Baltic Fleet sank
a German war vessel in a battle that never occurred.

And, "The Russian vanguard has crossed the German frontier without
meeting with opposition." As a matter of fact there is not a single
Russian soldier on German soil. All inroads have been repulsed, and the
German offensive has everywhere been successful.

A Dutch newspaper prints the following report from France:

Belfort--Many hundreds of Alsatians are joining the French Army
with great enthusiasm, also many Italian Swiss. A large number of
Alsace-Lorrainers are waiting near the frontier with a view of
crossing it at a favorable opportunity to fight on the French side.

Such absurdity in the face of the unbroken unanimity of the entire
German people and despite the manifest enthusiasm of the
Alsace-Lorrainers for the German cause!

Equally stupid and made up for incurably credulous readers is an
official report of the French War