Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-04-23
GERMANS HAVE NO
CHANCE AGAINST
AMERICAN ARMIES
Australian Official CorreSpon-
dent Declares PerShing'S
Force the Most Magnificent
the World Has Ever Seen

BEHIND THE BRITISH LINES IN
I FRANCE. March misconceptions
Of the Associated Press THE Ger
mans are in for a rude awakening If
they are sincere N discounting the
American army in France, in the opin-
ION of +. NJ. Cutlack. assistant official
correspondent with the Australian i'm
perial force here.
The Americans. ne asserted, nave
Il spirit for which the kaiser would
sacrifice a good half OF his numbers if
he could get il into mis- troops today"
Returning from a visit tn the American
forces Mr.. Cutlack wrote:
The dominant fact in the arrival Of
the United States army is the huge big
ness of il. IL is now--new as paint
and keen as a racehorse in training-or
rather a whole paddockful of race
horses. The world Will probably not
have the chance again of seeing such
a spectacle of amateur warlike earn
estness, for the Americans are learning
very fast.
1T saw something of the same sort
when the Australian war army began
long ago in 19I4-the same light-heart-
ed enthusiasm, the same rich raw quail
ity all unframed and inexperienced, the
same outpouring of the very best of a
whole country in motion of national
turns The Americans are not soldiers
yet. and no people realize better than
themselves now 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 Brit
ish empire has the best reasons for
L., A,tr xN~ieh hn rty in
him the most unmilitary civilian may
become a fine soldier. But no army
you can read of in history ever march
ed with a more splendid ardor or faced
a great Struggle with serener satisfac-
ton than the American expeditionary
force in France. And il 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 land
scape, drilling, marching. maneuvering,
building camps and roads.
They are learning the art of fight
ing from the best soldiers of France
and Britton, and many of their officers,
as attaches of one sort or another, have
seen a lot of this war from the Ger
man and Turkish side as well. We
found a major who had watched the
0dAllDOl campaign AiOil llC up OIL
Battleship Hill and was in the conf
dence of Liman Won Sanders and the
Turkish pashas. He has therefore a
particularly warm regard for the Aus
tralianS.
We went up to see the American
line in Lorraine. 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-lim bed
carriage. Their discipline. like ours,
II a thing which force could never i'm
pose or maintain, but is rather contri-
buted voluntarily to a common good
in violation of temperament and up
bringing.
Against these men. as against the
men of the British empire, the Ger
mans have no chance"