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Show oo GERMAN VIEW OF AMERICAN BOYS Yankees Are Fighters But Cannot Explain Why They Are in the War. BERLIN, Sunday, Nov. 25, via Lon-don.jNov. Lon-don.jNov. 27. A report received from tho western front, describing tho American troops In action, says: "Independent American units have been thrown into the trench line. The felt hat has given way to tho English fashioned steel helmet and the whistling whistl-ing and bursting of shells have become be-come familiar sounds to American ears. "For tho first time since they have been participating as Independent contingents con-tingents the Americans have tasted tho real hard scuffle. But this time tho shells did not merely fly over their heads, but into the very trenches they had selected, and presently, with an infernal noise, those things which the young soldiers believed to be a firm protection began to qualco and burst. "And hard on tho heels of this, a firm attack by our onniBhlng Bavarian reserves forced the way into the American trenches, and musket shots and bursting hand grenades relieved the artillery fire. ' "Our now opponents made a most determined defense and desperate hand-to-hand fighting act in. Butts of V guns, fists and hand grenades were freely brought into play and many men fell to the ground before the rest gave up resistance and surrendered. After a bare hour the German storming troops were back in their own trenches trench-es with booty and prisoners. . "There they stood before us, these young men from the land of liberty. They were sturdy and sportsmanllko in build. Good-natured smiles radiated radi-ated from their blue eyes and they were quite surprised that we did not propose to shoot them, as they had been led in the. French training camp to believe wo would do. "They "Know no Teply to trar qurr 1 Why does the United States carry 1 on war against Germany?' Tho sinking or American ships by U-boats which was tho favorite pretext, sounds a 1?,? 0:lnn tt we had treated Bel- - i ijm iather adly. Another assorted j . . iat k Lafayette who brought j f. America French aid in the wuof in- j r dependence, and "because of tezi i'J. J I A ' France" 5 'VUld now 8tnnd K r-V I |