Nov. 18.
Our readers will no doubt ready have noticed the extraordin nary profusion of German reports during the past two days. Ever since the beginning of the war it has been a constant source of amusement to compare these. reports with what the German Press Bureau itself has to say on the same subject a day or two later. Thus, for example, a German telegram from San Francis-ce, dated November 7, said that "'it appears from official German reports that the German and Austro-Hungarian armies have gained successes during the whole of the past week."" Buta Berlin message dated November 13 says that the Russians have advanced through the region of central Galicia, which was voluntarily evacuated by the Austrians, and have again invested Przemys."" Another Berlin message of the 14th says that the German eastern frontier has been fortified, and Russian attacks on it have been repulsed. But why are the Austrians retiring, and how do the Russians come to be attacking Germany's eastern frontier, when a month ago a strong German army was very near Warsaw, if the Germans and Austrians have only been gaining successes? Sometimes German mendacity betrays itself on the spot, as when it claimed H. M.
Relligerent a victim to German naval prowess. It did not need the subsequent Foreign Office telegram to tell us that neither the Belligerent nor any one of nine other ships alleged to have been disabled, by the "'Ostasiatischer Lloyd,"' had ever been disabled. There is no such ship in the British navy as the Belligerent. But the German telegrams, or what purport to be
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