Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-10-03
CONSERVATION
COMMON WORD
IN GERMANY
More Manpower Than Ever
Before is Being Saved
by Germans.
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With the American Army in France,
Sept. 10.-(Correspondence of the AS
ISOLATED Press. )-Conservation is the
word one hears coming over the Ger
man lines now. Always economical,
the Germans are saving now more
than ever before in m~an-power. Since
the day the Germans started back
ward from the Marine they have been
conserving their numbers as never
before and they have done it in a most
admirable manner But it has been
at the expense of positions. F...-
The German losses in men have not
been SO great as might have been ex-
pected. In the fighting north Of the
Marine the retreat was skillfully PLAN
F, ned and carried out in a manner that
excited admiration. Machine guns
were substituted for men at almost
every point and the way in which the
German army is built around that
particular bit of ordnance has been
very thoroughly demonstrated.
Every backward step of the enemy
was guarded by the automatic guns.
Get back the artillery and the bulk Of
the infantry was the order repeated
in the German army as the French
and Americans prodded them. In al
most every instance the rear guard
action meant the resistance of little
machine gun units and because of the
clever manner in which the "nests''
were placed they were able to hold
thelr WI long enough to enable the
main armies behind them to fall back.
Ihey were not always placed in
lines but'left here and there lust over
the brow of a hill or in the deep
woods, on the ground and in the
trees m almost always -skillfully
camoufiaged. But always their dispo-
sltlon was coordinate. In the end it
was up to every machine gun crew to
isnt us own way out or to resist to
the last, until swept away by the AL
lies artillery or over by their tanks
or infantry, but they were so placed
that until that time came their lfire
was SO directed that it swept very eff
Iectually the advancing lines. The
have lost thousands Of their
machlne guns by such tactics but thew
nave saved proportionately in men.
II is his evident intention to save
man-power, so different from their at
tltude earlier in the war, that has
some lar towards convincing many
elat tnelr Dig military machine is
- - oaukths ana that they will not be able
u "'thstand a winter campaign.
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WAS PERsHING'S PLAYMATE.
M~lssoula, Mont, Oct. 3.-Even as a
youngster in knickerbockers, Genera
oohh ). Pershlng, now commander OF
me american expeditionary forces in
france, displayed an inclination to-
ward a military career and revealed
Strategic ability as a leader of his
yy ouanh comrades. according to
oosepn y. James Of this city, who was
n playmate to General
a vacation visit to Laclede, Mo.
Where he and the general spent their
younger days. General Pershine "a.
sized there until he received his ap-
polntment to West Point military
academy. ~
The fayorite sport of the school,
BOY IN the days Of my boyhood hack
AL l1acelede, just after the Civil a
was 10 play soldier" said Mr..
y lanes Jack Pershing was the most
anu deia.,gaol of the young soldiers
~ souso always be found in COM
vouna ~ one or the companies of
ous warfare through the streets and
Alleys of the little town and in the
/; ohonn nearby making f~erocious
chaTges with their lath sword
Mnlie still in his early teens
efsning showed traces Of the dipio-
macy which he has revealed IN iater
years, and as a s~trategist he was nm
excelled, being aver on the aIest in
,a.er years, and as a strategist he was
enexcelled, being ever on the aiert
tnp an opportunity to defeat the
to hiA with the least possible loss
20 MS own company"
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