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Show " GERMAN TROOPS . LOSE FAITH IN THE TALES TOLD THEM BRITISH HEADQUARTERS TX I'RANCli, June 21. (by the Associated Pr?es. ) Rocau:P of thf comparative quiet whifh rilnrs a Ions the wMern from, Orrran prisonei s ta kn in nichtly raid? say they are boin:: told anew that the allied al-lied ofit.-nsivfi is definitely ended. However, How-ever, they have r e.en told t ids so of t en now that they no lon-r believe what tin':r officers fay. Fro'ii what officer rrponers Fay. there if palpable nervousness ail alone the German Ger-man line as to where the Tiriti.-li will strike next. F'rioni-r from t he ranks say they have been told that the British attacks on the Messines ri.lue were wholly reputed, Imt that the truth Is he-pi he-pi nn ins to filter into t he German army orpanzat ion and to be appreciated a t home, deFpile the efforts of the German press to conceal the fact and the .significance .sig-nificance of the British victory. The Germans are still resortinir to the; use of dummy guns and dummy gun flashes, ho tli in an at tempt to conceal their real pun positions and to deceive the infantry as to the amount of the artillery support ava ilahle. All the prisoners con t inn a to dwell upon the feeling; which exists between the Germa n gunners and infantrymen. The thinners say the only excuse they can offer for lack of artillery support for Hie infantrymen is that t hey are not pi ven a sufficient quantity of ammunition. Their shootinpr, however, is inaccurate, due io badly worn or otherwise defective weapons. They sa y that minor repairs to the ! guns are quickly made, but that more important work has become a matter of : months. The British air tactics are continuing i to have a most depressing effect upon the j German morale. Spurt-eel on apparently by the necessity neces-sity of compet intr with the British airmen, air-men, so as to impress the German troops a little inure favorably, several Germa n machines flew quite low over the British Brit-ish lines east of Messines two days aeo and opened fire with machine t'uns. The experiment was hardly a success, however. how-ever. Three of .the machines were shot down. |