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Show i f n CAN RETREAT WITHOUTHELP ! It is seldom you see comedy in the official of-ficial war reports, but the German war office has broken the rule. It has fur, nished the official war records a choice bitof real humor aridrar the action of the, Yankees possible we believe jt proper pro-per 4he perpetuate the joke. After, the Americans had, attacked p"n the St. Mihiel salient, captured 155 square miles' of territory, relieved the allied line of a.dahgerous bulge, captured 20,000 or, more prisoners, liberated thirty or more villages, taken many big. guns and hundreds hun-dreds of machine guns hd gained control over, important, and undamaged railroads . the German war office explains it by say-in say-in it was intended all this should happen four years .ago. v " "We clid notltherefightthe.battle.to a , finish, but carried out the movements contemplated which the enemy was unable un-able to prevent," says the official Hun statement. . . The movement was a double quick retreat re-treat and the "enemy was unable: 'td prevent pre-vent it." Decidedly notthe enemy hastened has-tened it, - - It is a rare' wheeze, isn't it'?-a bit camouflaged, to- be sure, but so clever for a, boehe. We wonder how long the German people will accept reports -of these movements that the enemy cannot iprevent without dying of laughter. Salt Lake Telegram. at a t |
