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Show . CONTEMPT FOR ! THE AMERICANS Paris, Feb. 15, 11 30 a. m. Amerl-i Amerl-i cans arriving m the French capital bo- ) da - '"in Berlin who were In a posi tion to see what was taking place behind be-hind the screen regard General von . Ludendorff, the first quartermaster -.-ri.--i.ii f the Orinan imperial arm Hp ;i Hi.- most iial person in the -nmll firoup surrounding Emperor William responsible for the Gorman poIlc. General I.udendorff appears to be 1 th- brain that conceives the militnrv plans, while Field Marshal von Hin-denburg, Hin-denburg, chief of the general staff, is r the hand that executes them. Gen- eral von Ludendorft Is described as being of a military mind rathei than ofa political one. His immense infli1-i infli1-i ence in the ntourage of I 6t 1 rerman emperor gives him a voice in purely I poln if ;i! und foreien polic Americans whoso business in Berlin was to study the springs of action of the German government say they know that General von Ludendorff dislike- Americans and has contempt for their military strength; that is. while aware of their potentialities, yet so far as any organization and application of them is possible, they could not. iu the opinion of the German quartermaster quartermas-ter general, be brought to bear upon the present war, which, in his belief, will be finished before the United States could get into action The coniction in the small group re-r re-r sponsible for the acts of the German government appears to be that the submarine war can be successful against England within three months That in any event it is a powerful arm for immediate and continual use until the war is ended. Consequently it will be used for all it is worth. The military situation in German, according to thp same source of information, infor-mation, is regarded as beginning to be affected by the exhaustion of man power. Every man In the country be-( tween the ages of IS and 45 has been gathered for the army, and they have been replaced b men physically unfit un-fit for active service or below or beyond be-yond the age limits. The German losses in dead, official-ly official-ly placed by the last public announcements announce-ments as having reached slightly beyond be-yond 1,000.000 officers and men. Is, according to cautious estimates. 30o,-000 30o,-000 or 400,000 bevond that figure. The gamtary service of the Germany army I has been verv good and because of this a high percentage of wounded soldiers sol-diers has been able to return to the active army Yet the number of permanently per-manently disabled amon the wounded probablv will bring the irreplaceable losses considerably bevond thi L'.Onu,. 000 mark The real reason for the deportation of Belgians, the American arrivals .say, appears in bo that General von Ludendorff Luden-dorff s plans preconceived the retirement retire-ment from the greater part of France and Belgium of shorter lines if forced to do so by the offensive this year of the entente allies |