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Show GERMAKS TELL WILD STORIES ABOUT U. S. Effort Being Made to Keep Up the Spirits of the People Peo-ple at Home. WASHINGTON", May 11. A German Ger-man wireless message, saying that grave insubordination is a daily oceur-renre oceur-renre in American army training canape, was made public today by the i state department, as an illustration of the lengths to which the German government gov-ernment is going in an effort to keep up the spirits of the civil population. The message, which was sent out Ma)' 9, and which was given out ,by the state department without comment, said: "According to information from Christiania, Norwegians recently arrived from America say that grave cases of insubordination occur daily in American training camps. At first breaches of discipline were punished by death, but this was stojjped, owing to the number of cases. In a particularly particu-larly flagrant instance all the. soldiers in a camp acted collectively and obtained ob-tained not only immunity for the mutineers, muti-neers, but punishment for all officers. Furthermore, much damage to works and material is being done." German wireless messages are sent out for circulation in neutral countries and for the information of German diplomatic dip-lomatic representatives abroad. Officials Of-ficials have no doubt that the foregoing forego-ing statement was given general circulation circu-lation through Germany, as well as in Ailstria-Hungary. |