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Show 'SgRMAN STORY NOT CREDITED AT WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, July 2-1. The Wolff's Bureau dispatch, purporting to picture tremendous sacrifices among the American Ameri-can troops in the great offensive, is characterized by officials here as pure propaganda. Any statement that any particular class fif troops has been picked for sacrifice is said by officials to be almost unworthy of notice. From time to time the German official statements have attempted to create depression de-pression and dissension in Great Britain's Brit-ain's colonies by declaring that the Canadian Cana-dian and Australian troops were being sacrificed on the first lines. Then the l-iprnitiu propaganda turned to the French with insidious statements that the French territorials, including the Senegalese and the Moroccans, were being butchered. A little later the same methods were used in an attempt to inflame the negro population popu-lation of the United States with statements state-ments that American negroes were placed In the line of fire to shield white troops. Today's statement is regarded as wholly 'n the same cla.ss. When the American casualty lists begins to come in officials nre confident it will not be inconsistent with the results nor with the sacrifices of the French. If the "hundreds of thousands" of dead Pictured in the German dispatches is meant to refer to Americans only, its utter ut-ter incrcrlibilitv appears at once, for there are not more than 300.000 Americans en-Rfiffed, en-Rfiffed, all told. That the American force is still very much alive is shown by the fact that It is still moving ahead and taking tak-ing towns, prisoners and guns from the enemy. |