Show 1 i a ENOS CONDUCT Of SOLDIERS mr r I IN FRANGE Astor B Says Slanderous Re- Re I I. I J orts About A. A E. E r F. F Arc Without Foundation r LINGS LI GS Mont Aug 1 Reports l. Reports have hae gained some om publicity and caused a distrust of the char- char the men who have comprised American merican expeditionary forces are rated In a letter to a a. Billings man Rev Walter H II North formerly or of of a local church who left here time ago to engage In field fieldI I under the auspices of the C. C A A. Us to ask your aid in correcting dens Iders der through my statements If It no nor I r affecting the tho character of the thes IP ps s says sa the letter That slander that all aU of the men ined fined In the A A. E E. F. F except the theof they y of of occupation are those who become come the victims of loathsome ses ses or are held for breaches of plIne Aline I have had opportunities now specific instances in which j slander Iander the first especially has hassed hassed sed much trouble for men have elJo elo me repeatedly with proof i INSTANCES INSTANCES II young man a clean chap had fitter from his sweetheart to whom was engaged to he be married saying e I r have Just learned treason reason you are not coming homeI home cj quoted the report Since that is I 11 case ase I do not want you ever to toor tenor teror or write to me for I never shall ou again A wife writes a hus- hus that Is faithful if this is the theIon theon Ion on you are not coming home you never anever come A mother writes on Ion with many words of endear endear- If you are In trouble and cant canI can- can I t come home tell me and I will willou ou all I can can these hese are but a few tew of th the many l Us its of this slander We have now sands of men at this base and andt t has as many more The pergo per- per age go ge of men in the guardhouse and andIon Ion camps set apart for such suchs s sM sj-ls sj Is very small email in fact almost I J have never had so high I pinion philon of our American men as I Iad had ad since I have lived Jived with tn I do not m mean an to say that they tta always ways refined in speech or free j that would not sound well wen society but I do say that faro Ilare men of Rood good principles thorf thor- thor i I f C ily I moral and upright here as asIn n they were at home And this with with the restraints of feminine family ties laid aside It Is vile i In treacherous to stab them In the j i jS It Ie S I want the men and women at Se to to know that the slander is j I Ic c ous and without the slightest I j I |