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New York City.—Various indeed are the ways and methods adopted by the German language press of the country in their endeavor to discredit in the present struggle the cause of the Allies and consequently America. In its morning edition for September 8th the New York Herald reprints an article from the California Demokrat, another German publication, under the glaring headlines, “How the Czechs wrought harm (Wie Czechen schadeten); made unusually difficult conduct of war for Austria.” These headlines indicate sufficiently how indignant the German-American press is that the Czechs did not make lighter Berlin’s and Vienna’s quest for world dominion. But the article itself is even more bitter. It recites the conduct of Czech troops during the war, their desertions to the Allies, and speaks of them with contempt as traitors and men without honor because of their refusal to fight under the black and