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QUALITY OF THE AMERICAN SHELL Early in the war before the munitions makers in the United States had organized their plants before a single American made shell had been fired by a British or French gunner at a German posi ¬ tion the German people were informed officially and categorically that only ammunition exported from this country kept the allied armies in the field fieldIn In this country German propagandists spread reports of German classification of shell fragments of card indexed records showing exactly when and where American missiles were used who used them and what destruction they wrought wroughtWe We were told always by Germans that the pro ¬ duct of our war factories was immeasurably superior to anything produced in England France or Italy and that because of this the kaiser would one day bring us to account for the grave injury we had done the German nation nationThat That was before the United States entered the war warNow Now we are in the war and the Germans tell a different story The military authority who illu ¬ minates the mizids of the readers of the semioffi ¬ cial Norddeutsche Allgemeiiie Zcituug proving first that there are no Americans in France then that the American in France are of no use as soldiers finally concludes that the American fighting men cannot be properly equipped because the American war material manufacturers are swindlers swindlersIt It is scarcely worth while to try to keep abreast of German falsehoods but it is well occasionally to check up the lies of today against the lies of yesterday and thus obtain si comprehensive notion of the falseness of the whole German government of today and of its numerous official and unofficial spokesmen New York Sun
