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Show TELLS HOW 8EB W .1 Member of Y. M. C. A. War' Council Gives Reason for Rout of the Romans. WlilCHTSTMWX, N. J.. .Ian. U.-Npw papers printed in Lallan by the -Jcrmans, containing fictitious, news, were circulated circulat-ed anions the Italian soldiers previous to t he Austro-Oei man drive t LP over-vheimed over-vheimed northern Italy, and had much to io in lessening tire resistance of the defenders, de-fenders, declared . fames Wmtmore, a member of the, war council of the Y. M. C. A., i'n .mi address to the soldiers at Camp Pix lufluv. -dr. Whii inure, who recently returned j i'roTii I lurope, .said t ii;i L Oerman propa -iMiidists. had been working among the Italian arm Pirt-e months t efore the big I drive, lie said he iiad talked with one i 1 he I la linn officers, formerly a New Writ contractor, who told him he had been led to believe the war was about over, as; retirement a ti ves of the a'iies and & " .V e central powers were to meet in Switch Swit-ch Vcrland to talk peace. .. A f-w days later, he continued. 2000 Aus'.rians "deserted" from their irmy and came over to the Italian army, toHing the soldiers that Austria was ready for peace a nd thai if their officers should order them lo shoot at the Italians they would i cfuse lo carry out the orders, if the Italians marie a similar agreement. On the day before the d rive, newspapers newspa-pers purporting to have come from Italian Ital-ian low ns, arrived in the camp. the sneaker said. These papers hail every indication in-dication of having been printed "back home," even to the usual advertisements. In the papers were accounts of women and ciiil Iren riot in? in various parts of Italy and of French soldiers shooting" them down. He sa:d the men had no way of knowi ng that these papers were part nf the Cennan plot. Mr. Vh; tinore said he belie.v?d i(hat? tlie "news" made the Italian soldiers put tip little or no opposition .vhen ths drive was made c-n the first line. |