Show THAT SURVIVORS STORY Ibo Signal Service Corps has ftirnishet moro cuie of trouble and complaint in ho Army sin to its organisation than another > an-other factor in lie War Department mid tow comes to the front with n special ncan trouble in tho shape of a story from ono of the Grucly survivors who was II hcigcant in its ranks The man re urned with the other survivors and up to this present time has held his peace receiving tho pay of tho Government bu when his term of office expired he broke loose into a tirade against Grccly which from tho peculiar p nature of tho circum stances surrounding tho expedition can never bo traced to absolute truth or falsehood false-hood This unfortunate outcome of the expedition placed this man with others in position of National notoriety am now for tho gratification of u persona spite ho pours out a tale which bo know I will challenge National attention and work his victim harm before it can bo nailed and disproved Tho press agent who gave currency to tho false assertions of this man is more to blame than ho is for without newspaper notoriety Connell would soon sink to his natural level und bo swallowed up in everyday life This tendency on tho part of some news gatb erers to spring sensations on tho public I regardless of their truth is a bad one as proved in this case and should bo severely frowned down Greely returned re-turned and made his report to tho War Department and that ollico commended I him for his work after which the spiteful opinions of no man should bo allowed to t i work him harm Tho condition of this party in the last few months before their delivery was such as to preclude rigorous military dcsciplmo and after so many months of silence It augurs poorly for Councils case that ho should now come upon tho stage as detractor of the ma ho served under solely to gratify personal per-sonal malice The story bears this stamp of meanness for if this statements were facts ho should bo nshamcd 01 himself to belittle the work of his own countrymen The statement that this flag had not been carried farther north than ever before is u lie proven by the records tho men who gao up their lives In this duty The action of this ma Connoll will cause him to be II markei man wherever ho goes and tho mark o ill bu anything but pleasant to bin Had he made these charges while in this service and submitted them to the Will Department he could have Hived bin self from nil trouble but ho elected to stub a man in this back and the Ainer can Hopln despise such work |