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Show SIGHT OF PERSHING CONVINCED GERMAN "We Are Lost," Teuton Says, When Confronting American Commander Com-mander in France. PARIS. Sept. 3. "It Is a pity that so much blood has been shed in vain." A German officer, taken prisoner in the recent French advance north of Verdun, is thus quoted hy the Echo de la Uoehelle, and a staff officer who interrogated the German is given as authority for the interview. in-terview. The German paid homage, to the heroic courage of the French .soldiers, hut tried to discourage the idea that help would be forthcoming from the. I'nitcfi .Slates, declaring de-claring that President Wilson was fooling i the allies. To convince him, the German was taken before General Pershing, when lears rolled down his cheeks, and he remarked, sadly: "Since that is the case, it is all over. We are lost." |