OFFICER OF GERMANY LAUDS ILS. FIGHTERS Major B. F. Caffey Sends Home, Paper Showing Hun Colonel's View. Telling how the First American division of which he is a member, annihilated four Hun division, one of them the famed Prussian Guards, B. F. Caffey, Jr., recently promoted to be a major of infantry, writes from France to His father, B. F. Caffey, 1037 First avenue. Major Caffey has been In the thick of some of the fiercest fighting of the entire war. He encloses an official document. Issued Is-sued by the headquarters of the First division on October 10,- by order of Major General Summerall. The document says: "Germany's tribute to the First division. di-vision. Today a captured colonel of the German army arrived at our division cage. He was cold, hungry and broken in spirit. After four years of severe fighting and constant service in his army, he was taken prisoner by the troops of the victorious First division. Following is the substance of his reinarks: " 'Yesterday I received orders to hold the ground at all costs. The A merican barrage advanced toward my position, and the work of your artillery was marvelous. The barrage was so dense tt was impossible impos-sible for us to move out of our dugouts. Following this barrage closely were the troops of the First division. I saw them forge ahead and knew all was lost. All night I remained in my dugout, hoping vainly something would happen that would permit me to rejoin my army. This morning your troops found me, and here I am, after four years of fighting, a prisoner. " 'Yesterday I knew the First division was opposite us, and I knew we would have to put up the hardest fight of the war. The First division is wonderful and the German army knows it. We did not believe thati within five years the Americans Ameri-cans could develop a division such as the First division. The work of Its infantry in-fantry and artillery Is worthy of the best armies In the world.' "This tribute comes from one of Germany's Ger-many's seasoned field officers. It is with great pleasure we learn even our enemies recognize the courage, valor and efficiency effi-ciency of our troops." Major Caffey's letter follows: "France, October 1 2. "Dear Father: Have not written you for over two weeks, hut know you will pardon me because we have been whipping whip-ping the boche for Ihat period of time. "We attacked him daily and sometimes some-times two or three times over a country ' full of ravines, hills and woods, which he had full of machine guns and seventy-sevens seventy-sevens three-inch guns. As one doughboy dough-boy put it: Every Hun who didn't have a machine gun had a cannon. "We, our division, simply annihilated four boche divisions. The enclosed statement, state-ment, which I know to be true, tells what the Hun thinks of the greatest fighting outfit in the world the First American ' division. Yes, even greater than the famous Moroccan division. We know we are better than anything the boche has, because we have just wiped out two of his 'stormstruppen' divisions, the Fifth Prussian Prus-sian Guards and the Fifty -second division. di-vision. "I am well, but suffering tortures from fleas contracted In sleeping in boche dugouts." dug-outs." Major Caffey's brother. Andy Caffey, is a member of the 145th field artillery.