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Show time to time, fighting viciously while they were winning, and crying "Kame-rad "Kame-rad ' ' when the battle turned against them. One thing noticeable in the German intelligence reports is that the Huns ! have a wholesome respect for the American Amer-ican soldier, whom they once affected to despise as a factor in the present war. They have met him in battle and they know that they must fight to the death, run or surrender, and the game j has become too strenuous for them. The following tribute is paid the Yankee fighter in the report above mentioned: ' ' In general it should be noted that the American is quite honorable; he does not fire upon stretcher-bearers. ' ' It is a great pity the intelligence of-I of-I f ieer was not able to say the same of the German soldier, whose many acts of treachery have brought down upon himself and his country the condemnation condemna-tion of all civilized peoples. All hail to the American, who is a fair, although desperate, fighter. HUN TRIBUTE. American soldiers appear to have made a deep and lasting impression upon the chief intelligence officer of the, Nineteenth German army, as disclosed dis-closed in a confidential document captured cap-tured by Yankees fighting on the British Brit-ish front. The report dealt with the eviction of the Hun troops from the St. Mihiel salient and gave the names of the divisions engaged in the work. The" First, Second and Forty-second were given credit .-for being tried attack at-tack divisions; the Fourth and Twenty-sixtjh Twenty-sixtjh were called good fighting divisions; di-visions; the Fifth, Eighty-ninth and Nineteenth, which had never Before been identified in battle, were credited with having had some good experience in fighting, and the Thirty-fourth was mentioned as a reserve division. If all the .German confidential reports were published, the American people would doubtless know much more arout their army than they do at the present moment. mo-ment. Once in a while some division is mentioned in General Pershing's reports re-ports and sometimes General March turns loose a little information; but, afcerally -p'-a '-: i nu. t h" people f this "Olfetrv nre kept in ignorance concern-ijrfc, concern-ijrfc, the divisions, brigades and regiments regi-ments taking .art in the greatest battle bat-tle of the world. The Germans who face the American troops arc better in-termed, in-termed, as the reports of the intelli-jjpnee intelli-jjpnee officers -how. tThc report captured on the British fjgnt says the American soldier is afraid tc be taken prisoner and defends him-itf him-itf to the last, because he has been ttM that the Hermans maltreat prison. ' arsj In this the officer does not do tie Yankee fighter full justice, for it is .not fear of cruelty upon the part of Uoe in charge of prison camps that -96 Uses him to fight to the death, but flVcausc he desires to finish the work nV was sent overseas to perform as 'pilekly as possible and be done with it. If he has the least particle of fear, t is because ho considers it, a disgrace 4'0'e captured with a gun in his hand and able to stand upon his feet. The Australians mid some of the Prussian Idlers fight until they are dropped, 4nd the Americans are also game to the iH. As a matter of fad, the Hritinh, Prench, Canadian, Belgian and all the dihr troops in the entente armies never iir'rcnder unless lhc are simply over-flidmed, over-flidmed, which cannot be truthfully Atf of u gnat many of the Ocrmani Adonging to various organisations fhjru bavt appeared In the field from |
