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 to-day is not German militarism, but British imperialism!

One method of propaganda is a large map, very well drawn up by the German staff, with a broad margin containing very clever commentaries. This map, which has been distributed throughout the Russian front by hundreds of thousands, shows the Russian Empire surrounded on all sides, from Port Arthur to Archangel, by the tentacles of the British octopus. The zones of British influence are printed in the same shade as the metropolitan and colonial territory: they include notably Archangel, Cronstadt, and Aaland; and outside of Russia, Persia, Arabia, Syria, Macedonia, Northern France, and that part of Belgium which is not occupied by the Germans. …

It seems, moreover, that this propaganda, while admirably organized and splendidly carried on, has the same fault that we find in all German enterprises of this sort; it overreaches its mark, and provokes finally, by its ponderous insistence, a psychological reaction, which is the one result that its organizers had failed to