War libraries and allied studies . o — cc <3£ <! oCO oa 3 I CO u ta w -a o B = u O 2 re. BOOKS FOR PRISONERS OF WAR ibj that on the days when this egregious newspaper ap-peared with its imaginary news of French defeats andof disasters to the Allies all over the globe, Germanofficers and used to go round the camps andask the men what they thought of it. The Germans,who unfortunately believed it all, were horrified to seetheir captives making exceedingly merry and decliningto credit a single word. Another paper of the sameagreeable kind is circulated for the benefit of Englishpriso
War libraries and allied studies . o — cc <3£ <! oCO oa 3 I CO u ta w -a o B = u O 2 re. BOOKS FOR PRISONERS OF WAR ibj that on the days when this egregious newspaper ap-peared with its imaginary news of French defeats andof disasters to the Allies all over the globe, Germanofficers and used to go round the camps andask the men what they thought of it. The Germans,who unfortunately believed it all, were horrified to seetheir captives making exceedingly merry and decliningto credit a single word. Another paper of the sameagreeable kind is circulated for the benefit of Englishprisoners and is called The Continental Times — aJournal for Americans in Europe, price twopence half-penny — and dear at the price. I can hardly imagineany sane American buying it, as it contains little butreprints of ravings against England (if possible byEnglish writers), off-scouring from newspapers like theGaelic-American, and clumsy inventions by way ofwar news. It is fair to add that it now publishessome of the French and English communiques fromthe seat of war; but it did not includ
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