According to the "Berlingske Tidende" correspondent in Germany, amongst the other frightful weapons which Germans are told Herr Hitler is contemplating using against' the British, for the purpose of bringing about an early peace is, first, a narcotic gas designed to put the population of the British Isles to sleep for a fortnight in which the German army would march in, and, second, a scheme to freeze the whole country into a solid block of ice. The correspondent states that not only the masses but even the intelligentsia are seriously discussing the possibilities of the schemes, The G. man people are talking of air fleets covering the whole expanse of the British Isles, spraying over the people a powerful narcotic which wil! send them to sleep for a couple of weeks, then to awake and find the land in the possession of the Reichswehr. How it is proposed to freeze the islands into a solid mass of ice has not been divulged, except to state that it will be done by a secret method of refrigeration. The cre-duality of the German masses is such that they, according to the Danish correspondent, are taking the matter seriously, and fully expect that by some such means steps to end the war will be taken by Herr Hitler before the spring is very much older. They are reported to believe that these two schemes are completely practicable, which only goes to show how right Herr Hitler was when he wrote that if people were told a lie big enough and often enough they would ultimately believe it. The story is ample proof of the contention that Dr. Goebbels' propaganda machine is most efficient in Germany itself, and that the people will believe anything they are told, if not because they have to, then because they do not know any different. On the other hand stories such as these are ample demonstrations of the truth of the saying that German propaganda is not without its amusement value, and not the least is this suggestion that Herr Hitler is actually concentrating upon the painless conquest of the British Isles.
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