Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-10-30 | Page 11 | U. S. will Make all Casualty Reports

I S. WILL MAKE ILL CASUALTVREPORTS Enemy Aliens Are Circulating Circu-lating False Rumors of Disasters. "WASHINGTON, Oct. 29. Undefined rumors, generally current throughout many sections of the country today, purporting pur-porting to hint at some disaster to America's Amer-ica's war forces, are ascribed by officials to the same propaganda which several weeks ago flooded the country with similar simi-lar false reports calculated to dampen the war spirit and spread distress and dissatisfaction dissat-isfaction among those at home. Any casualty cas-ualty reports, it. was reiterated today, will be made public promptly by the govern gov-ern ment. NEW YORK, Oct. 23. Government agents are bringing to account enemy aliens who circulate false stories concerning concern-ing subjects connected with the country's prosecution of the war. It became known today that among the Germans recently interned at Ellis Island were several who were charged with giving! circulation to such tales. Tha t soldiers at near-by camps are committing suicide almost daily and that men In the national army cantonments are under-fed were among the falsehoods these persons are alleged to have told. Another is said to have invented a story of operations of German submarines off the eastern coast of the United States, information which, he said, newspapers in this countrv were forbidden to publish.