The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-04-20
U. s. SOLDIERS DUE TO WAKEN GERMAN TROOPS Americans Have Right Spir- it, Says Official Austral-
 ian Correspondent. LORRAINE LINE
 LOOKS PROMISING Huns Have No Chance Against These Men, Is
 Cutlack's Opinion.

Behind the British Lines in France, April 20-The Germans are in for a rude awakening if they are sincere ln dlscounting the American army in France, in the opinion of F. S. Cut lack, assistant official correspondent with the Australian Imperial Force.
 The Americans, he asserted, "have spirit for which the Kaiser would sacrifice a good half of his numbers if he could get it into his troops today" Returning from a visit to the American forces ST. Cut lack wrote:
 ''The dominant fact in the arrival of the United States army is the huge bigness of it. It is new-new as paint-and keen as a racehorse in training-or rather g. whole paddock full of racehorses. The world will probably not have the chance again of seeing such a spectacle of amateur warlike earnestness, for the Ameri- cans are learning very fast.
 "It saw something of the same sort when the Australian War Army be- gan long ago in 1914-the same light hearted enthusiasm, the same rich raw quality all untrained and inex- perienced, the same outpouring of the very best of a whole country in all emotion of national pride, counting neither cost nor returns. The Ameri- cans are not soldiers yet, and no people realize better than them selves how much they have still to dc to make themselves soldiers, but | they will be a great and powerful army in probably shorter time than they reckon upon.
 Great armies have, before this been raised for great causes, and the British Empire has the best of req sons for knowing how with the vital spark in him the most unmilitary l civilian may become fine soldier. But no army you can read of in his- tory ever marched with a more splendid ardor or faced a. great strug- 1 gle with serener satisfaction than the American Expeditionary Force in France. And it is such mighty army. They will not tell you how big, and you are discouraged from guessing, but we ran through all a spring day in a huge automobile and still the American host dotted the landscape, drilling, marching, man. oeuvering, building camps and roads.
 "They are learning the art of fight ing from the best soldiers of Crance and Britain, and many of their off, cers as attaches of one sort or an- other, have seen lot of this war from the German and Turkish side as we'll. We found a major who had watched the Gallipoli campaign from the top of Battleship Hill and was in the confidence of Liman von Sanders and the Turkish Pashaa He has therefore particularly warm regard for the Australians
 We went up to see the American line in Sorraine. In their khaki and round, tin hats among the Lorraine hills, they look and act very much like our own men; indeed they might be our own fellows. They have the same sturdy, self-reliant look. They spread themselves over country in the fashion of men accustomed to vast spaces They walk with the same easy, free-limbed carriage. Theil discipline, like ours, is a thing whict force could never impose or maintain but is rather contributed voluntarily to a common, good in violation o1 temperament and upbringing.
 Against these men, as against the men of the British Empire, the Ger
 mans have no chance"