President Wilson's Message Reaches the Germans 



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President Wilson's message to Con- 

 gress (translated into German) 

 which proclaimed to the Germans 

 in the trenches that the United 

 States had taken up the fight in the 

 name of humanity and that right 

 is more to be desired than peace 



Above: Several copies of President 

 Wilson's war message attached to a 

 balloon. Only parts of the message 

 were printed in the German papers 

 — the least important parts. That 

 is the chief reason for the procedure 



How the balloons carried the mes- 

 sage to the German trenches. An 

 American business man contributed 

 a large sum to be spent in distribut- 

 ing the message, which thus reached 

 the German ranks uncensored 



