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Show FUNSTON TO DRIVE Oil! THELIARS Correspondents on the Border Who Have Proved a Pest Must Go. San Antonio, Tex., Aug. 1. General Funston tonight sent to the war department de-partment at Washington a telegram announcing his intention to rid tho various guardsmon camps of newspaper newspa-per correspondents who send out false accounts of conditions in the camps. He referred to such correspondents as "pests" and said ho had endured them as long as ho purposed to. An order has been sent to all district dis-trict commanders along the border covering future action against newspaper news-paper men sending out dispatches In each instance the offender will be tried by a special court of militia officers from his state. If found guilty guil-ty he will be ordered from camp. "The great mass of the guardsmen arc standing tho hardships of camp life well," said General Funston, "and have no cause for complaint. It is only mollycoddles and sissies who kick. These are ones that tell tales to special correspondents." The general's telegram, which was sent to the adjutant general, said: "I wish to call attention of the war department de-partment to the carnival of lying being be-ing Indulged in by many correspondents correspond-ents who accompanied the state troops to the border. I have never seen or heard of anything that approached ap-proached it for sheer maliciousness and shamelessness. "While there arc honorable exceptions, excep-tions, many of these correspondents are men of no judgment or balance or have so little experience of the world that they have no sense of balance or proportion. Ordinarily inconveniences or privations that to a man with real soldierly Instincts are merely subjects for jokes are magnified by them into most distressing stories." |