masters, for the pamphlets are so well produced that anyone who is not on the lookout is very likely to fall a victim to them."
That such Propaganda might have had an effect if it had been tried earlier was evident from the admissions of war correspondents as well as of generals. Herr W. Scheurmann wrote in the Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (October 30):
"We Germans have learnt for the first time this autumn that the moral resistance of the fighter at the front is a power with which the Command must reckon, all the more cautiously inasmuch as it is difficult to estimate."
All charges of the mendacity of British propaganda were unfounded, for the greatest care was unremittingly exercised to tell only the truth. One effect of this was to make the Germans distrust their official communiqués. "We have in our dear Fatherland to-day," wrote the Kölnische Zeitung on September 11, "great numbers of innocent and ingenuous minds who doubt the plain statements of the German Army reports, but believe the false reports and
