Show V 1 We e Cant Can't Beat These ese I F Ferocious ero s Americans Says a ays Cowed Boche I. I 1 I i S 4 1 By Frank J. J Taylor faylor t tibi- tibi United Press S Staff aff Correspondent WITH THE THE AMERICAN ARMIES IN FRANCE F ANCE July uly 31 The intrepid charging charing 1 r ing of the Americans is not only winning ground but it is also instilling fear into the Germans Germans' Letters taken fr from m prisoners today ay and statements made by them clearly show Y this Ther there are instances of American heroism I At one town the Germans counter attacked obliging the Americans to retreat temporarily Then the en enemy sent out a aman aman aman I man under a white flag He asked if the Americans wanted to surrender Hell no yelled their commander Were ready to attack atRick Americans who cannot be defeat defeated d. d d This they did retaking the village Their artillery already h has s caused t ter terrible tar tar- rand r- r and holding it permanently losses yVe We must b be annihilated The rhe more intelligent Germans fear by their Infantry they wont won't be able to hold out much The American spirit and devotion Monger longer against the increasing allied to duty are amazing even to those forces who Have ave watched the war and been CANT CAN'T LAST LONG on the battlefields for tor four years Time G atter after time the Americans have The Th e German German- erman army couldn't couldn t hold bold holdout charged into intense machine longer gun fire out two months month longer at the present and r rate of losses declared right through artillery barrages and o officer one German have driven back the Germans whose A AC Prussian prisoner I i fantry cannot sta stand d up in hand to to was vas tou found d head combats carry a letter written behead to his wife be be- fore the battle He wrote GOT TO GET BACK The war is hopeless for lor us now An American lieutenant stumbled A that we are oDDo opposed ed t to these feroci ferocious us into a rolling kitchen at the roadside t. f behind the lines and asked for tor something something some some- some some-l thing to eat He trembled continually and a private offered to help him to toa a hospital but the officer refused I Never he be said Im going back backI I to the front with my boys Im I'm In a I I Stokes mortar outfit and got shell shocked yesterday so they se sent t me back when I couldn't protest I tried to get released from the hospital but I the doctors refused so there there- was nothing to do but escape Ive I've got to toI togo togo I go back to my boys 4 Doughboys ys clustered around watchIng watchIng watching watch- watch Ing the lieutenant munching beans from a mess kit borrowed from froma a a private I Hes got the stuff they agreed But he ought to be sent ba back to to the hospital Its It's a crime to l let t him goto go goI goIto go goto I to the front t 1 HUNS TURN TAIL t I Doughboys returning from the front I described how machine gun bullets J I rained around them In their assaults on on the German nests yesterday One bat batt I tallon finally drove out but the Germans j i after a costly charge uphill In this I advance a captured gun was turned f I I against the boches who ran like rabbits rabbits rab rab- I I bits throwing down their rifles and i equipment and finally halting around 1 a new machine gun nest nest This Thi x stormed by the American unit l ll three thre Germans had been bayou bayon Ithe I the resistance ended i |