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Show MUST EXPECT LARGE CASUALTIES. Measuring the Yankee troops In France, tho Leader of Pittsburg says: It was not easy to satisfy European commanders that men with little training could hope to give service equal to that of soldiers with four years of actual war behind them as a supplement to years of preparatory work. The results at the Marne have given proofs that the American soldier sol-dier doesn't need years of drilling to make him a good fighter. The personal per-sonal opinion of the men themselves also counts for much in that confidence confi-dence which is a large part of every fighting man's moral equipment. Wounded soldiers assert that the German Ger-man infantry is not a match for the American, and once men have mot each other in battle tho relative qualities quali-ties make themselves plain. The work of the "lightning trained Yankees," as the Prussians only re-1 re-1 cently called them In sneering tones, ; Is probably better appreciated in the German ranks than in either America, England or France. The Germans know 1 better just what tremendous odds the Yankees had to meet and overcome. Tho effect upon the men In the Ger- man ranks will be deeper, for they have been drilled to believe with other illusions that it takes years of constant and brutal training to turn a civilian into an acceptable soldier. They know better now, for they have met tho "lightning trained Yankees" with only a few months of camp preparation and been beaten at the military game. The resistless wave attacks have been met and resisted successfully. The assaults have been halted, broken, and the offensive turned into a defensive defen-sive retreat. A new viewpoint will probably creep into the mind of the German soldiers, however stubbornly the high command may argue with itself it-self for continuation of the slaughter.-Tho slaughter.-Tho German armies will feel that their sun has set. They can make no material ma-terial headway with every military factor in their favor. A new element has entered Into the defense, a force which the Prussian mass mind has been taught to believe did not exist. The mind of America must now be prepared for the second part of the nows tho reports of the casualties. The price must be paid for victory. That, too, we have expected along with tho feeling of certainty in the outcome out-come of the big battle in which our soldiers should receive their baptism of death. We know that heroic fighting fight-ing such as that at the Marne could not escape the heavy casualties that will stun and Bhock and nvike us hold our bienlh. But this Is part of tho glory. We cannot Vipc to be free from me clement of success when so much ot the other rests upon tho American army. The Prussians have been taught their lesson on tho American Ameri-can soldier. They will never forget It. If it contributes to a shortening of the war U is worth all it eosls us. And tho glory will he all the brighter. |
