Show AMERICANS AMERICANS TO GIVE OUR BOYS MAY BE USED TO FORCE GERMANS BACK OF HINDENBURG G LINE I Believed That First American Army Will Be Used Be-Used Used to Compel Comp 1 Another Strategic Retreat t b by th the W War r Weary Forces of the Kaiser 7 J V Washington Will Washington Will American troops cause ause the retirement of the Germans b ond the Hindenburg line Une Certain Certain military officials here behove beleve be be- hove leve ve they will vill and tind also that the first American army the organization of or which has lately b been e Mno announced n 1 will willbe wille Iti be e the organization to compel another strategic retreat They base their assumption on ri the tactics that have V characterIzed ed Marshal Fochs Foch's commando command to o date date the the constant hammering first at nt one point of the line and then at mother another The British the they point out have al alread already already al- al read ready come In contact with the Uie line which up to now has his had a n halo of impre Impregnability about It It They are poundIng pounding away vay at It In the vicinity if Bullecourt The next few days ma may th the lOpe hope that t they will break breal through If Ie not however Fochs Foch's other card card believed believed to b be the Americans Americans- ma zany may be used V The natural place for an operation by y our troops It Is said Is in the Lorraine jorraine sector If such an offensive offensives Is s undertaken and crowned with success success success suc suc- cess it would constitute In Itself a arreater greater freater menace to the Hindenburg line military observers say than the pres pres- present present ent nt on one the Germans now face In the victorious British army to the north For Tor with the British advancing from the he northwest In a southeasterly dIrection dl dl- and the Americans advancing avancing from rom the southeast to the northwest the he German command would of or pity Ity be compelled to realign Its armies md nd such realignment would haye have to tobe obe be beit it Lt t a 0 point behind the tile Hindenburg line |