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Show ORDERED TO SHOOT AMERICANS IN LEGS Directions Are round on Under Officer Offi-cer of a Hun Machine Gun Crew. By KOBEKT S. DOMAN, Universal Service Staff Correspondent. PAHI.S. .Sept. A wounded lieutenant arrivms at Paris hospital today declared triat orders were recently found on dead German machine k'un under officers b:dding them to fire at the legs of the Americans opposite them. 'J-Ire low!" the order read. "Tou vill find thar the Americans are foolhardy. They mil advance directly upon your T'ositions without the cautiousness of the Krench. Thev do not crouch. ?o when thev advance erectly your task wdil be an eav one. ...Snciv t'-.ern between knees and hips. A .lead 'enemy Is left by his army on the field until there Is time to bury him. but every wounded enemy requires many per-ons to' take care of hirn. Two litter-bearers and two light railway rail-way handcar pushers et him back to the ambulance. For every six wounded men the enemy needs an ambulance, a cl-'ver ar.d a helper. " Vnbu.an-es consume gasoline and encumb.-r the roads. Moreover. each wo-ind-d man requires the attention of a do -tor t"- a doctor and a surgeon, two oner.-ition assistants and later the con-sia-.t care of doctors and nurses. He rr;uires bandaites and medicines, -'--'r-h t;tk no totinate In the ships which fiVi-i-my ilj.lv needs. The personnel make Latidaes and medicines are r"-ib to do otlier jiosltlve war work. "I,,.- aid foot wounds, espeflally those breaui-' 'oon-s, rcn-ier combatants use-.fH use-.fH ' In 'a h:':h percentage of cases for fc-thr marh'irtK- An-1 a man who can't n.arcn Is as useless to an army as a dead man. Therefore, fire low:" |