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Show REPORTERS OFTEN EXAGGERATE EVENTS OF WAR At the beginning of the sensational sensa-tional drive of the American 3rd army to close the escape gap of the German Seventh army, the American people were told in the press and over the air that 100,000 Nazis had been bagged in the Orne pocket. Naturally, they, find it somewhat some-what difficult to understand the escape of most of these soldiers, together with the armor of General Gen-eral Von Kluge. They are puzzled by the successive reductions in the estimates of Germans to be captured cap-tured from 200,000 to 100,000 to 50,000 and then to an indefinite total. Part of the explanation lies, we suspect, in the anxiety of reporters report-ers and commentators to anticipate antici-pate the events of war. This should be borne in mind in connection con-nection with present reports that, one trap having failed, the Allies are now closing the mouth of other oth-er bags closer to Paris. |