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Show GETTING A CLOSER VIEW. Tho enemy may not have high respect re-spect for tho American soldiers but a number of the Dutch military writers writ-ers who havo been along tho French front take off their hats to our troops. The representative of the Amsterdam Handelsblatt, who was permitted to sco the American forces In France, wroto hoipe: "From America Issues a force against which no European nation 'can stand. It is a gigantic force which Is developing calmly and scientifically." scientifical-ly." When tho fourth division of the Prussian Guard went down to Clerges to mow a path through tho Yanks, all tho Germans soldiers In that sector threw their hats high in the air and shouted: "Tho Prussian Guards! The Prussian Prus-sian Guards! They come; they go! Tho American swlno will flee!" Tho next day the common German soldiers woro asking: "Where aro tho glorious guards?" And the zephyrs answered, "They aro resting on the green sward on yonder hill, and they will rest until Judgment Day." Sinco then the Cologne Volks Zeltung Zel-tung has said: "American troops who have been employed in battle havo shown themselves them-selves to be thoroughly good fighters." fight-ers." -nn |