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Show better armed than his own, and that our men use their arms just n Di t be iter ihan do the uermans. ' But perhaps the most important element of superiority is youth. That is an element which has been largely lost to all the armies of Europe engaged in the war. Our boys are at the ideal age lor soldiering, 'lhey are at the zenith of energy, confidence and physical strength.Salt Lake Tribune. ; IIINDENBURG CONFESSES When no less an authority than Field Marshal Von Hinden-burg Hinden-burg admits that the German troops tanno: stand up against the Americans, it must be so. It is true that the defeated strategist strat-egist does not make the admission explicitly,' but he who runs jnay read between the Hindenburg lines. A dispatch to Copenhagen from Berlin includes the following: fol-lowing: "Von Hindenburg said that the German soldiers would become just as easily accustomed to the Americans as to the black soldiers." " , The field marshal made that remmk after frankly admitting admit-ting the defeat of the German army. The implication, therefore, there-fore, is clear. The Germans were defeated because they could not resist the American assaults. Hindenburg thinks that no ' doubt in time the Germans may be able to accustcin themselves to American intelligence, dash and courage, but he doe: not li'ce to put it that way. He compares the Americans to tho black sol- 1 dicrs of the French and British armies because he wishes to 1 convey the impression that American tactics are a little strance . to the Germans merely strange, and nothing more. Having fought all kinds of soldiers, including the Canadians Who are much the same as ourselves, the Germans could not have found our methods extraordinarily strange. What they really found was this: About 250,000 American soldiers with a year's training were thrown into the battle, and all of them were determined to win. "They proved to be just as skilful as the kaiser's troop;-,, who had been trained for two and three years, and their "will to victory," as the Germans would say, was stronger than the Hun's will to victory. Moreover, they were perfectly armed and equipped, which in itself was a surprise to llimiisnburg, who, together to-gether with the other pan-German chiefs, had maintained in and out of season that the Americans would never amount to much in the war. He has discovered that our army is even |