Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-08-05 | Page 2 | Here is Hun's Funniest Alibi on Yankee Aid

:. Here Is Hun's :: ; Funniest Alibi on Yankee Aid LONDOX, Aug. 4. The corre- ! spondeut of the Aily Ex- ' pve?3 at Geneva reports an article ' svrittteu by General von Loring- ; ; hoven in the Mannheim Anzeiger ; statiifg that American military ; ! intervention may now be consid- ; ered a fact, but that the Amer- icans are untrained and inex- ; perieneed and must be -wedged in ! between the English and French ' troops. Their numbers, he says, i. ; have been exaggerated by halt'; nevertheless, he adds, constant ! arrivals of Americans have per- ; i mitted General Foch to fill Up ! the gaps caused by the German ; offensives since last spring. ', ; The German editor of the Ga- 1 ; zette de Lorraine publishes a ' ! long article on the Americans. ' ! He admits that a million Amer- 1 ican troops are now in France; ; but this fact, he says, is due en- ; tirely to Hindcnburg's prear- ranged plan of allowing American troop ships to cross the Atlantic ! i; unmolested by German subma- ! ' rines. Ilindenburg, he states, is ' ' waiting until the Americans suf-fer suf-fer their first military defeat on S the French front, in order to form a formidablo barrage of subma- rines in the Atlantic, thus cutting ; !; off their communications from ! i; America and starving out the ! j American army in France.