Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-04-20
NEW AS PAINT,
KEEN AS RACERS:
AMERICAN ARMY
"Huge Bigness" of il Will Also
Impress Germany, Says Aus
traiian Correspondent.
INSTRUCTED BY MASTERS

Behind the British Lanes in France,
April a-Thc Germans are IN for rude
awakening If they are sincere in discount
ing the American army in France, III the
opinion of T. NJ Cutlaok, assistant
official correspondent with the Australian
Imperial Force herr.
"The Americans, he asserted, "have
n spirit for which tho kaiser would
sacrifice good half of his numbers II he
could get il into h's troops today
Returning from a visit to the American
forces. Mr. Cutlack wrote.
The dominant fact in the arrival OF
the United States army IA the huge big
ness of it, II is new new as pant t-
and keen rs n raochorse IN training or
rather a whole paddockful Of racchorses.
The world will probably not have the
chance again Of seeing such spectacle
Of amateur warlikc earncstncsa, for the
Americans arc learning very last.
ut saw something of the same sort
when the Australian War Army began
long ago in 1914 the same hght-hearted
enthusiasm. the same rich raw quality
all unframed and inexperienced, the same
outpouring of the very hest Of a whole
country in an emotion of national pride,
counting neither cost nor returns, The
Americans are not soldiers vet, and no
people realize better than Themselves how
much they have stili to do to make them
selves soldiers, hut they will be- a great
and powerful army in probably shorter
time than thev reckon upon
Great armies have before this hCCn
raised for great Causes, and the British
Empire has the hest of reasons Tor know
ing how with the vital spark in him the
most unmiltarv civilian may become a
fine soldier. But no army you can read
of i'm history ever marched with n moro
splendid ardor or faced a great struggle
with scrcner satisfaction than the Amcrl-
can Fxpcditionary Force IN France.
And it Is such mighty army They will
not tell you how blg, and YOU are dis
couraged from guessing, but we ran
through all spring day IN hugo auto
mobile and still the American host dotted
the landscape, drilling, marching. ma
nocuvring building camps and ruads
"Thcv arc learning tho art of fighting
frnm The best soldiers Of France and Brit
ain and many Of their officers rs attaches
of one sort or another have seen a lot of
this war frnm the German and Turkish
side as we'll We found MAJOR who had
watched the Galhpoh campaign from the
ton Of BattlcshIp Hill and WAS IN tho
Turkish pashas He has therefore a
particularly warm regard for tho Aus
trallans
we went up 70 sec the american line
in Lorraine In their Khaki and round,
fin hats among the Lorraine hills they
hook and act very much like our own men
indeed they might be our own fellows.
They have the same sturdy, sclf-rrliani
look They spread themselves over coun-
try in the fashion Of men accustomed 10
vast spaces. They walk with the same
easy. frce-limbcd carriage. Their disci-
pline. like ours, is thing which force
could never impose or maintain, but IL
rather contributed voluntarily TO q com
mon good in violation Of temperament and
upbnnging.
Against these men, rs against the
men OF the British empire, the Germans
have no chance"