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RICHMOND, Va. – Confederate President Jefferson Davis told the successionist Congress today that Northern newspapers were deliberately slanting war coverage in an effort to demoralize the South, and called upon loyal sons of the rebellion to fight back against what he termed the "dastardly prevarications of the Yankee aggressor."

"The Yankee press likes to dwell upon the supposed victories of Gen. Sherman in Georgia.  But they don't cover the great Confederate successes in Texas and Arkansas!" he thundered.

To shouted huzzahs from his fellow traitors, Davis also accused the Northern press of ignoring what he called the "dire plight" of Grant's Army at Petersburg.  "These Union soldiers are living in mud with armed niggers!  How long can that last, I ask you?"

Gen. Grant, reached for comment at his City Point headquarters, said that "Jeff Davis ought to start drinking what I'm drinking and then he might (continued on 2d page)

Kaiser claims that War is going in
Germany's favor, despite press reports

BERLIN, Germany – Kaiser Wilhelm today criticized the German press corps for failing to cover the positive developments in the War.

"For example," the German dictator thundered, "You don't read in the newspapers how Germany is exploiting the millions of square kilometers it won from the Communist regime in Russia. Thanks to these cessions, Germany's railways have increased their length of track by 20,000 kilometers and its telegraph system by another 5,000 kilometers."

The Kaiser said that "progress was being made in stabilizing the situation on the Western Front." He claimed that stories to the effect that the exhausted German armies are being steadily pushed back to the Hindenberg Line were nothing more than "disloyal, defeatist propaganda."

The embattled German high commander also dismissed press reports of unrest in the Navy and among starving war workers. "Talk to the sailors," he said. "You'll see that their morale is splendid!

He told his subservient Reichstag that Germans would remember which press organs were loyal to the Fatherland and which sided with "Allied propaganda." In particular, he questioned whether Jewish-owned newspapers were really (continued on page 11)

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M'ARTHUR CLAIMS REDS ARE
       "ON THE RUN" IN KOREA

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TOKYO, Japan – Dismissing press reports of a huge Red Chinese offensive that has sent United Nations forces reeling back toward Seoul, Allied Supreme Commander Douglas MacArthur today blamed "panicky reporters and newsreel cameramen" for creating an "atmosphere of defeatism that could only serve the interests of world Communism."

Addressing his top aides in a rare public session, Gen. MacArthur upbraided the press for "buying into Commie propaganda about how a million Chinese troops infiltrated into northern Korea undetected."

MacArthur termed those reports "bunk." He said "We know exactly what we know and what we don't know." He also vowed that the Red Chinese invasion would be quickly stanched when he unleashes Chiang Kai-Shek's Nationalist Army on the mainland."

"You don't hear about the Marines' great victory at the Choisin Reservoir," the general noted.

"And you don't read in the newspapers about what will happen to the Red Chinese Army when Chiang returns to the mainland and my Air Force drops A-bombs on Peking and other Chinese cities," MacArthur complained.

"Mark my words: we're going to roll up the Chicoms and anyone who tries to stand in my way will be crushed.  I don't care if he's the President of the United States," the jocular general told his aides, winning laughter and warm applause.

By David Bloviator
White House Correspondent

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Clearly irritated by the outburst of protests that have greeted his decision to "incurse" Cambodia, President Richard M. Nixon today unleashed his most bitter attack to date on what he sees as "biased" press coverage.

Nixon, who usually leaves media attacks to Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, today told the Aerosol Products Association last night in prepared remarks that "the only reason the American people don't know how successful our Cambodian operation has been is because the liberal media won't tell them."

He singled out the CBS television network and its Vietnam correspondent, Dan Rather, as a source of "enemy propaganda."

Responding to criticisms that spreading the war into Cambodia has broadened the conflict without bringing it closer to success, Nixon said that U.S. forces in Cambodia had seized "thousands of COSVN documents and tons of military supplies."

He also said that without his Cambodian incursion, "the people of Cambodia would have been subject to a humanitarian disaster the likes of which has not been seen since the Second World War. Now the people of Cambodia can enjoy the blessings of peace and democracy."