The War Office recalls the experience in the last war, "when a Germen agency issued an untrue accusation of the British using poison gas at Ypres, whereas no poison gas had at that time been manufactured, even experimentally, in Britain, but five days after the agency's message the first German gas attack was launched."
"In the case of Germany," the statement says, "history repeats itself. German tactics, both in warfare and propaganda, follow the same shameful traditions, Germany's purpose in disseminating the present baseless story is evidently to prepare neutral opinion for its use by the Germans themselves."—Reuter.
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