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Show I OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZED BY BERLIN. At last Berlin has discovered American Ameri-can soldiers in the battle front on the Marne. In the official statement for Sunday, the German staff says Americans, Ameri-cans, including black Americans, fought between the French. Here is a significant statement: "The Americans have suffered especially es-pecially heavy losses, and, during the night, undisturbed by the enemy, wo withdrew our defenses in the territory north and northeast of Chateau Thier-! Thier-! Having realized that they no longer J could conceal from their people the i presence of the Americans on the l- fighting line, tho officials who doctor ; tfio news for German consumption, I proceeded to gently convey the Infor-; Infor-; matlon. So the announcement reads I that the Americans were severely pun-I pun-I Ished, and then the Germans quietly I folded their tents and stole away in j the night. , I The Germans did not retreat, They simply retired to .avoid inflicting fui- ther punishment on the Americans. Perhaps the prisoner who was cap-Lured cap-Lured more nearly told tho truth when lie said the German soldiers had decided de-cided there were ten million Americans Ameri-cans in France, and they did not care to meet them. One of the big subjects cf conversation conver-sation at grand headquarters today, we venture to say, is the presence of the Americans in the war zone and the quality of their fighting. Hindenburg, if he is alive, is beginning to take a different view of the Americans than he did when he said they had no fighting fight-ing qualities. If the big fellow is dead, then the devil is annoying him j by presenting daily bulletins from the Marne covering the heroic deeds of the Americans. What will happen to Germany when 3,000,000 soldiers of equal courage and dash are sent across tho ocean? |