Abstract:

During the First World War, Britain paid great attention to the propaganda activities. Britain has conducted propaganda activities in its own country, colonies, allied countries, neutral countries and countries where it fought. He established a propaganda office known as Wellington House to coordinate their propaganda activities. The propaganda office has distributed books, libraries, photos, posters, pictures, postcards, cartoons to many points of the world by publishing them. An important footprint of the propaganda activities of Britain in the First World War was also the photographic newspapers printed on high-quality papers. The pictures in the newspapers were wide. The pictures contained short explanations of the languages of the peoples addressed. Britain has set a publication policy in propaganda newspapers to address the world to the people of the east and the west. According to this, the propaganda newspapers to be distributed in Europe and America, the Latin America, was printed in Spanish and distributed in Spain and South America each month. Espelho was printed in Portuguese every 15 days and sent to Brazil. Hesperia was printed in Greek weekly. They also published propaganda newspapers distributed across the continents of America, Asia, Africa and Europe but mainly addressing the Eastern peoples. These newspapers were published in Turkish, Arabic, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, English, Malaysian, Urdu, Persian, Bangalore, Indian, Gucarat and Tamil languages. There are several languages in the newspapers at the same time. These newspapers were basically derived from the propaganda newspaper called al-Hakikat and produced in the same size and with the same system. These were Jangi Akhbar, Satya Vani, Senji Gaho, Warta Yang Tulus, Cheng Pao and Vayna Vı Kartinah. In this article, the seven propaganda newspapers, including the El-Hakikat newspaper, will be discussed and studied.