Evening star., 1918-07-26
GERMANS GIVING
AMERICANS CREDIT.
Say Pershing Reserves Are
Responsible for Recent A.
lied Successes.
OUR BOYS MISTREATED

CnbleEram to The Evening Star and
Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1918.
AMSTERDAM. Holland. July 26.-
German newspapers say it is not sur
prising that the allies won an initial
success. considering the large Ameri-
can reserves available to Gen. Foch.
The wolff bureau in a semi -official
telegram reported that hundreds of
thousands of Americans have been
killed in the recent fighting" This
telegram was hard to reconcile with
the same bureaus recent declaration
that only several hundred thousand
Americans were actually in France.
and SO a rectifying message was
rushed through to Holland to substi-
tute the words items Of thousands"
for Hundreds of thousands"
This German blunder has caused
considerable merriment in this coun-
try.
German Impression FADES.
Germany seems to have given up
the idea that America would shrink
from further efforts in the war as
soon as she saw the first casualty
lists. The German papers said: '"The
minute America knows what the loss
es are she will find a way to put
damper on the war enthusiasm.
Therefore our duty as good Germans
is to kill as many Americans as pos
sible.'
To give some color to their capture
of prisoners the Berlin Lokal Anzeiger
under the title, "Echt Amerikanisch".
('Truly American") places in the
mouth of an American soldier cap
tured near Chateau Thierry the words.
'"The Americans go to war because
it is finer sport than tiger hunting in
Africa"
Prisoners Harsh;y Treated.
I have obtained information about
American prisoners in Germany. They
are subjected to the same harsh treat
ment as the French, English and Bel
gianA Most of them are sent to
camps in Saxony. Several hundred
have been sent to reprisal camps for
unknown offenses. The food given
the prisoners is as bad as ever be-
cause 1T cannot be worse.
Every captured American in Gef-
many also has to submit to sort OF
a moral assault BY German ofncefs. Ger IN IN
greedy trust magnates" are unmercf.
fully denounced as the real cause of
his present discomfort.
'1 am told. though cannot yet
oh far 0c a
mans are going to try special propa-
ganda for Americans. of German
descent in order to illuminate their
SOULS as to the real meaning OF the
of three or four lecturers who are now
working in the Berlin propaganda bc-
reaus, to visit the camps as soon as
there are sufficient number present
with view to Offering men of German
ancestry their freedom If they will
consent to be incorporated into Ger
man-American regiments.
It Is the same scheme which was en-
lost his life because of it without
meeting with the slightest success.
Americans Will Not Work.
My informant wishes me to point
Star that too much cannot be done
to save American prisoners from the
tortures Of hunger so long as they are
in German hands. The German au-
thorities have also hoped to force the
Americans to work for them. but up
to now they have been singularly un-
fortunate in such attempts.
They quickly became alive to the
fact that every American working un-
der compulsion wiuld need at least
fwo German soldiers to watch him
Under the present manpower shortage
this cannot properly be done.