Show I Experts Expert's Daily S Review of War WarBy By J. J W. W T. T Mason Written for fop the United Press YORK March 2 Cen V NR Von s Hindenburg-s uncertainties concerning tho the v ouLI of oC American J troops along tho wc west t front have haw hen boon responsible for a series senes of or strong strong- raids roMs this week by German troops The purpose of or the raids has been to capture a a. few prisoners prIsoner In Inthe inthe the various sectors to discover r what trenches tho Am Americans aro are holding and In what strength There Thero is Js no humiliation attached to these captures It Is lR almost po possible sl- sl ble bie to secure a few prisoners if iC tho the raiders are are- prepared to suffer sufficient sufficient suf sur- suf- suf casualties Von Yon has put fut a n. very high h value on information concerning concerning con con- corning tho the whereabouts of or American Amerlean Amer Amer- lean ican troops as us tho the comparatively large larga German JOSS losses 8 show New 0 Information obtained by adds to tho the confusion confusion con con- fusion that must exist at German headquarters as to tho Urn main ob objective oh- oh of or General forthcoming forthcoming forth orth- coming offensive Earlier Barller In th the I week the Germans found Americans Americans Ameri Amen cans In hi tho the trenches near I which almost marks tho the western ond of or the front un under er French control control con con- near the point where it mer merges es I Into loto tho the British Von apparently was waR surprised nt at finding Americans so I far away from their original roSA base along along- the Lorraine front To make mako sure there ther were still American troops in the Ix Lorraine nf sector he ordered red a 3 end raid mid at close to St. St Mihiel and there captured enough Americans to make mako another for tho the German general staff Von Hindenburg fin Hin- denburg now knows k General Pershing has ban his hL r troops at points s 0 o diverse erse as os to mako make it Impossible I to foretell where the Americans will strike The accumulation of or German therefore cannot occur occur in an any area known beforehand beforehand before before- II hand as Pershing's objective I Simultaneously with the thereal tirL rea real resistance of or the Rus Russians lans to tho the new German offensive e Japan sounded out the Ule allies this week weck for tor their consent to a dispatch of or a n. Japanese ann army into Siberia to re restore restore re- re store order The pressing need for fora a military operation of or this kind b by Russia's Russins associates In the fight 1 ht for democracy has hal opt been made mado ap ap- ap parent Willie While Russia is trying desperately to to reorganize her fightIng fighting fight fight- Ing Ins forces and resist the Germans It t mi might ht cause despair In Petro- Petro grail and Moscow if a a. Japanese expedition expedition ex ex- ec- ec were to override o Russian sovereignty ty In Siberia Far eastern east east- ern n events are mo moving In a direction tHree tHree- tion Uon that makes make's Russia's troubles doubly serious In the years to I come when Russia once orice more I II Is Isan Isan an organized nation nation the Russians will remember who were their I friends at a a. time when the they so o sorely needed disinterested friends Count Von Yon 7 peace ne negotiations this week in an on address ss to the reichstag ac accepting accepting accepting ac- ac ostensibly ostensIbly- President Wilson's Wilsons Wil Wil- Eons Eon's plea for self determination of or nationalities as the primary basis for ending hostilities VJ While ile Von Yon Hertling was making avowals of ot this character to o the tho western na- na I I ions the German army was as doing its best befit to d destroy self sel determination I thou tion In Russia The German chancellor chan chan- ha has no chance of ot being be believed be- be lIe under such circumstances |