Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-08-02 | Page 4 | Faking News Writers Must Leave Border

MUST LEAVE BOffl Irresponsible Correspondents Correspond-ents Bitterly Arraigned in Report by Funston. SAX ANTONIO, Texas, Aug. 1 General Funston tonight sent to the war department at Washington a telegram announcing his intention to rid the various va-rious guardsmen camps of newspaper correspondents who send out false accounts ac-counts 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 all district commanders along the border covering future action against newspaper men sending out dispatches which may be classed 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, said: I wish to call attention of the war department of the carnival of lying being indulged in by many of the correspondents who accom-i panied the state troops to the border. bor-der. T have never seen or heard of anything that approached it for sheer ' maliciousness and shameless-ness. shameless-ness. x While there are honorable exceptions, excep-tions, m'anv of these correspondents are men of no judgment or balance . or have so little experience of the world that they seem to have no sense of balance or proportion. Ordinary Or-dinary inconveniences or deprivations depriva-tions that to a man with real soldierly sol-dierly instincts are merely subjects for jokes are magnified by them into the most distressing stories.