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Show GERMAN DESERTIONS BECOME NUMEROUS LONDON", March 10. A prominent American who has just reached England from Holland states that there has been an extraordinary numher of desprters from the German army within the" last few weeks. "The German soldiers." he declared "complain bitterly of the lack of food and the fresh hardships and privations which they are called upon to bear. They make no secret of their desire for peace, and state, among other things, that disaffection dis-affection if rapidly spreading among the rank and file of the German army on the western front. "I gathered that the Germans greatly fear a mutiny when the British start a I new offensive." |