Chapter I: Appendix: Facsimile leaflets and translations 237

INDEX 253

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Viscount Northcliffe _Frontispiece_

BETWEEN PAGES

Crewe House 8 and 9

Rear-Admiral Sir Reginald Hall, K.C.M.G.,
C.B., M.P. 8 and 9

Lieutenant-General Sir George Macdonogh,
K.C.M.G., C.B. 16 and 17

The Rt. Hon. Lord Beaverbrook 16 and 17

Mr. H. Wickham Steed 32 and 33

Dr. R. W. Seton-Watson 32 and 33

News of Allied successes on Western Front for
Jugo-Slav soldiers in the Austrian Armies 48 and 49

A manifesto from Dr. Trumbitch distributed
from aeroplanes among Jugo-Slav troops
in the Austrian Army 48 and 49

Mr. H. G. Wells 64 and 65

Leaflet--probably the first--distributed by
British aeroplanes among German troops
in October, 1914. It announced a Russian
victory in East Prussia 64 and 65

Mr. Hamilton Fyfe 64 and 65

Aeroplane distribution of copies of an early
leaflet prepared for the German soldier 64 and 65

Brigadier-General G. K. Cockerill, C.B. 80 and 81

A typical news-sheet for German soldiers 80 and 81

Captain Chalmers Mitchell 96 and 97

“Reporting Progress”--Leaflet which gave
particulars of Allied progress against the
Germans 96 and 97

Diagrammatic representation of the growth of
the American Army in the Field 96 and 97

Map-leaflet showing the breaking of the
Hindenburg line 112 and 113

News for German soldiers of the destruction
of the Turkish Army in Palestine 112 and 113

Some pointed quotations for German soldiers
culled from German sources 112 and 113

A medallion struck by the Germans in “dishonour”
of Lord Northcliffe 128 and 129

Leaflet with particulars of the fate of 150
German submarine commanders, which
created great depression in German naval
ports 128 and 129

Leaflet warning the Germans that such places
as Berlin and Hamburg had been brought
within range of aerial attack and could be
bombed if the war were prolonged 128 and 129

A German dream and the result. A leaflet
illustrating the collapse of the Mittel-Europa
ambition of German militarism 144 and 145

Front page of a “Trench Newspaper,” issued
by Crewe House for German troops 144 and 145

The late Sir Charles Nicholson, Bart., M.P. 144 and 145

Sir Roderick Jones, K.B.E. 160 and 161

Illustrated leaflet portraying contentment of
German prisoners in British hands 160 and 161

Colonel the Earl of Denbigh, C.V.O. 160 and 161

Leaflet showing how the Allies had
shattered the great Berlin-Bagdad plan 160 and 161

Mr. Robert Donald 176 and 177

Manifesto to Magyar Troops 176 and 177

“Drifting down in white showers”: Leaflets,
from Italian aeroplane squadron,
dropping on Vienna 176 and 177

Manifesto, signed by Professor (now President)
Masaryk, to Czecho-Slovak soldiers 176 and 177

Sir Sidney Low 192 and 193

Rapidly-distributed leaflets for German troops
telling of Allied successes in the Balkans
and in Syria 192 and 193

Mr. James O’Grady, M.P. 192 and 193

Inflating the balloons and attaching the
truth-telling leaflets 208 and 209

Registering the direction and velocity of the
wind, in order to judge where the leaflets
would fall 208 and 209

How leaflets were attached to the balloons 208 and 209

Dispatching the balloons 208 and 209

Testing the lifting power of balloons used for
propaganda purposes 224 and 225

LIST OF MAPS.

Ethnographic map of Austria-Hungary 32 and 38

The partition of Austria-Hungary: Showing
the boundaries as defined in the Peace
Treaties 48 and 49

Germany’s new boundaries as fixed by the
Treaty of Peace 80 and 81

Bulgaria as delimited by the Peace treaty 144 and 145