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Show Hidden War Facts One of the interesting pastimes since the close of the World War has been the discovery of wartime incidents concealed at the time by the censor for reasons of public policy. Some very interesting stories stor-ies are told. A few weeks ago the relatives of French corporal attempted in a military court to reverse the wartime war-time condemnation of this noncommissioned non-commissioned officer and three men who were shot after their company refused to join an attack in the St. Mihiel sector in August, 1913. In this way was heard for the first time the story of the remnant rem-nant of a company which after having fought valiantly refused to leave its trench, being so tired as to prefer to be shot than go over the top again. Sometimes, and they were more often than usually thought, the censors tried to hide facts but failed because of some little features fea-tures which escaped their notice. When Nancy was bombarded by long-range German guns the French cetnsors kept it quiet but overlooked the printing of obituary notices in the local newspapers. So, when six or more death notices appeared, announcing sudden deaths in the same building at the same moment, the German intelligence officers were able to spot their hits. At one period of the World War disaffection plagued the French army. We have learned since that one hundred and fifteen units were affected, and it was only cured by wholesale executions following fol-lowing the raising of the red flag by a regiment at the Coeuvres Depot. De-pot. To blot out this mutiny one soldier out of every five was selected se-lected by lot and died at the hands of his own countrymen, few of them apparently caring whether death came from a French firing squad or on barbed wire in front of the German trenches. |