e the charge that dispatches had been altered for the purpose of
hiding the truth and blackening the German character.' I do not
recollect this phrase. I did charge that dispatches of German
atrocities were permitted to go through unaltered, and that sentences in
other dispatches in which credit was given the Germans for courtesy and
kindness were deleted. I abide by that statement."

There have been many angry references to unfair German attempts to
influence neutral opinion. A letter such as Mr. Corey's makes me able to
understand why some neutrals have accused England of the very same
unfairness. There is other testimony to the same effect. Mr. Edward
Price Bell, London Correspondent of the _Chicago Daily News_, has, in a
pamphlet published by Fisher Unwin, indicted the British censorship in
the following terms:

I call the censorship chaotic because of the chaos in its
administration. I call it political because it has changed or
suppressed political cables. I call it discriminatory because
there are flagrant instances of its not holding the scales
evenly between correspondents and newspapers. I call it
unchivalrous because it has been known to elide eulogies of
enemy decency and enemy valour. I call it destructive because
its function is to destroy; it has no constructive function
whatever. I call it in effect anti-British and pro-German
because its tendency--one means, of course, its unconscious
tendency--often is to elevate the German name for veracity and
for courage above the British. I call it ludicrous, because it
has censored such matter as Kipling's "Recessional" and
Browning's poetry. I call it incompetent because one can
perceive no sort of collective efficiency in its work. And
because of the sum of these things I give it the final
descriptive--"incredible."--_Daily News_, January 7, 1916.

There is no doubt that people often _fear_ to tell of German good deeds.
An acquaintance of mine told me that his boy got decorated for bringing
in a badly wounded comrade from near the German trenches. A little
shamefacedly my informant went on: "I don't mind telling _you_, but I
_shouldn't like it to be known generally here_, that I know the Germans
act well sometimes. My boy wrote he would have had no chance, but he
heard the Germans give the order to cease fire." My informant evidently
feared the neighbours would call him pro-German if he told