Show AMERICANS PROVE BAD ACTORS TO I IY GERMANS Y Yankee Tactics Get Goat of Boches Causing Wonder Won Won- d der r Next By Henry G. G Wales International News Service Staff Correspondent Cor- Cor respondent WITH THE AMERI AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE PRANCE March 16 Delayed In Delayed In all three sectors where Americans are on the front lines north lines north of Tow Toni east of and at the Chemin des Dames the Dames the Germans have discovered that they are opposed by tough customers customers cus cus- when it comes cornea to fighting men The enemy I Js is evidently not g goIng going go- go Ing to make the sam mistake he did in 1914 when he classed the British as M a contemptible little army armyN Tl The e Germans have learned that the fresh American troops unused to the tho refinements taught by two forty-two months of ot warfare are aro undaunted in the face of ot the heaviest bombardments and the deadliest and most horrible products of the German laboratories MUSTARD GAS USED The Tho enemy has used successfully successfully mustard gas chlorine gas tear gases and liquid fire all intermingled with concentrated bombardments from l long range guns as well as from heavy howitzers and the latest type of ot huge caliber trench mortars Colossal shells shell from the German tear tea up great craters raters big enough to get a a. aS S good sized church in inThe in The boches' boches attempts attempt to harass Americans at night by sending over bombing aeroplanes have signally failed The Tha American officers and men Inca have havo found the hide and seek fighting among the aircraft with high angle guns and searchlights ts highly entertaining en en- and amusing Furthermore the enemy has found the Americans have the same high grade marksmanship as the tho British and that the Yankee soldiers do donot not forget the Instructions drilled Into them durIng during dur dur- ing lug months mouths of training with rifles and automatic pistols The Germans found to their dissatisfaction dissatisfaction dissat dissat- that they were wore no longer undisputed undisputed un un- un- un disputed possessors of No Mans Man's Land American patrols have been sweeping the territory between the trenches at frequent intervals between sunset and ard dawn always o eager for a brush with enemy patrols Their ac activity activity no- no has proven highly annoying to the enemy preventing him from re repairing repairing repairing re- re pairing the breaches cut in his barbed wire by the guns during the day HUNS LEAVE HUNS LEAVE TRENCH In the Lorraine sector east of ot especially the tho offensive spirit of the Americans has been re rewarded rewarded re- re warded as the Bavarians evacuated a trench rather than withstand the continual continual con- con Inual heavy pressure exerted es b by the Americans The Germans have been openly disconcerted disconcerted dis dig concerted b by the metal thrown against them continually by the Americans as asIt asit asit It is part of ot their policy to conserve shells everywhere except In openly active ac ac- tive Ive sectors which they like to choose for or themselves es Recently captured German army orders orders or or- ders dens brought in by raiders disclosed that hat the German high command is showIng an anxiety over the continued continued continued contin contin- drain of ot munitions opposite the tho Americans German artillery officers were warned to to economize to the closest point compatible with safety |