It is not likely that the promised speeding up of information relative to German air-raids, issued to foreign correspondents in Britain, will to do his utmost in the matter, pointed out that the Germans in this matter had two advantages, first, previous knowledge when a raid was to take place, and second, a complete disregard for the truth. This enabled correspondents in Berlin to start sending accounts of the raids to the' United States before the German machines reached British shores. A striking example of the sort of process the German propagandists follow was to be seen recently in enemy news reports received locally, when a raid was described almost, as the Americans say, "play by play." It looked all very impressive, but carried not one grain of conviction. And that because reports such as these would be so easy for the Germans, who are bound by no regard for the truth, to fake. Knowing what the objectives of the German air force were to be, it would require no great exercise of the well trained German imagination to write descriptive reports around just those mere facts, objectives were known all that it would be necessary to hand out would be denials that any great damage had been done and that the
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