Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 184, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1916 — Scribes Bearing False Witness About Guard Situation Must Go. [ARTICLE]

Scribes Bearing False Witness About Guard Situation Must Go.

San Antonio, Tex., Aug. I.—General Funston tonight sent to the war department at Washington a telegram announcing his intention to rid the various national guard camps of newspaper correspondents who sent out false accounts of conditions in the camps. He referred to such correspondents as “pests,” and said he had endured them as long as he purposed to. An order has been sent to aft. district commanders along the border covering future action against newspaper men sending out dispatches which may be clashed as untruthful. In each instance the offender will be tried by a special court of militia officers from his state. If found guilty he will be ordered from camp. “The great mass of the guardsmen are standing the hardships of camp life well,” said General Funston, “and have no cause for complaint. It is only mollycoddles and sissies who kick. These are the ones that tell tales to special correspondents.” The general’s telegram which was sent to the adjutant general called attention to the “carnival of lying” of corerspondents with state troops at the border and added he had never heard of anything “that approached it for sheer maliciousness and shamelessness.” He said there are “honorable exceptions.” The effect he said needlessly distressed relatives of the soldiers. /• Anna F. Turfler, Osteopath.