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Show HUNS SKEPTIC OVER SAMMIES IN FRANCE Iusists That Canadians Have Been Disguised Dis-guised as Americans to Impress Im-press Germans. By International News Service. PARIS, May 11 (by mail). The following fol-lowing incident "was related at the Ccrcle Volney by M. Grosclaude to a number of American officers who have been admitted ad-mitted to the club: "One of our Red Cross men who has returned to Paris from the front," said M. Grosclaude. "reports that the officer who commanded one of the Gothas which fell In our lines manifested skepticism regarding re-garding the presence of Americans at the front. "Although it would seem that the Germans Ger-mans could . have, no illusions on that point after the recent raid, the German officer persisted in his incredulity. 'Every 'Ev-ery one knows.' he said, 'that up to the present the Americans havo not dared to put tholr -soldiers in the trenches, and that English and Canadian Tommies dressed in American uniforms have been used in the raids in order to impress us.' "In order to convince the officer, he was conducted through the American camps behind the lines. Whether his opinion changed after he had seen the thousands of Yankee troopers still remains re-mains unknown, for he still persists in calling them Canadians disguised as Americans." |