and Americans A correspondent has supplied the "Morning Post" with copies of pamphlets and leaflets issued by the League of German Patriots for propaganda, purposes. They are in English; one is addressed to "Britons with a Conscience and to the American People," and exposes "the shameless robbery of the German Colonies"; another declares how "morally unfit" Australia is to act as a mandatory Power; and yet another is an appeal to British Churchmen.
The readers of the first-mentioned pamphlets are informed that Australia is continuing the huge fraud by means of which England has tried to justify the seizure of German colonies of enormous value, "which, with the destruction of German commerce, was England's object in fomenting and entering the World War." It is stated, furthermore, in this pamphlet that "it seems that Germany can look only to the representatives of Labour in Great Britain and her Dominions to obtain the return of her colonies and the repeal of the outrageous conditions which the peace-butchers of Versailles have forced upon her," and in the concluding sentence regret ig expressed that "Australia is ruled by a spiteful, jingoistic autocrat, whose brain is steeped in the by a fair-minded, generous states-ison of Imperialism, instead of
man, such as Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa, undoubtedly is."
AppraL TO British CHURCHMEN.
In its leaflet addressed to ''British Churchmen" the League of German Patriots says:
"The hopes of your statesmen, when they rushed your people into the war in 1914, that British world supremacy would be firmly maintained for all time, and that the ruin of Germany's commerce would bring an immense gain to British trade, has not been realized. On the contrary, England has lost her world position and her prestige."
It asserts that Mr. Lloyd George is now engaged in a desperate effort to divert public attention from his own share in bringing about the war, and to throw the responsibility for the war on Germany, and it asks whether "you, followers of Christ," will not summon up sufficient courage, sufficient moral and mental honesty, to defy that immoral English axiom "Right or wrong, my country," and "to endeavour to purge your country from the corroding poison of the Great Lie."
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