Show j r r r r i J 0 C e J. J I I Desertions Desertions' I. I Q d I 1 h M U t llY j I J. J j Rampant r Hun Army By Associated Press l 4 LONDON T ONDON Sept Demoralization of the German population and wide wide wid alone Large numbers are are scattered throughout t. t the country I spread and growing dissatisfaction in the German army accompanied ed Disobedience and defiance of officers officer's is com common common on at the front and a i 1 J by mut mutiny ny and desertions are d Jed aed in a dispatch to the Daily T Tele- Tele le similar spirit is shown in the factories where the workers deh deliberately de de- j graph h from its Rotterdam correspondent The correspondent says that h t are slowing up i information reaching him is so sensational as to inspire skepticism but ut More editorial space space is is' being used here to future events than the ref reI retreat re re- I f declares he has received corroboration from autho authoritative sources sources' which treat of the German army The belief that something like a panic has j establishes the authenticity of t the e information seized the German populace ce is not based upon stories from neutral sources I He e asserts asserts that that the German army is f filled lIed with despondency and but but upon the utterances of the leaders in the e German Germa nation and and the appeals ap ap- seething with mutinous spirit and that alarming outbreaks have occurred peals of German newspapers to th the public to ke keep p its head while they Lin in several units principally Bavarian and One incident on the themselves admit the seriousness of the military situation I Arr Arras s front terminated in a whole Bavarian division being disarmed and nd The Thes emperors emperor's bold vein of assurance Chancellor franchise fran fran- transported to Bavaria where it was placed in a prison camp and th the chise chile sp speech ech General Linsingen's stringent order and above all Field yield mutiny of one one of the regiments resulted in nearly a hundred df of of f Marshal von Hindenburg's proclamation ar are cited as manifest efforts to its its men en being ing executed d. d j IC check eck the decay ecay of the German spirit w which ich it is conten contended ed must must exist to A huge number of desertions are occurring the correspondent ent s 's s says says' ys have ave Ve called them forth In Iq short shor it lt is IS declared d that the German people and i it i is e estimated that there here are m more r than deserters i in in Berl n and iid p perhaps all tie the military c chiefs are greatly d disturbed by recent recent events events |