Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-08-30
"Jf Whole American Army
Shows Same HeroiSm as
Those Who Have Been in
Action Our Cause Is Lost" "
GREAT DlSC0URAGEMENT
AMONG TEUTONlC TROOPS
Captured Documents and PriS-
oncrS' Statements GO to
Show That Huns Have Civ
en- Up Hope of Winning War


Washington. Aug 29,-Andrc Tar
dieu, French commissioner of Franco
American war corporation who is
now in Paris, has given ti.r Associated
Press by cable a comprehensive state
mont summing up the military events
Of the last five months and showing
their present bearing on the present
war situation. He says Gcrm1n pris-
oners declare that il the whole Amer
lean army shows the same dash as
the Americans who have been in ac-
tion 50 far the German cause is lost
NJ. Tardieu relates how the events
in stussia by giving Germany a crush
ing superiority. allowed the enemy
from March on to undertake large
offensive operations directly threaten
in2 Paris, putting Amiens, the pivot
Of the Franco British troops under
fire and cutting Off railway commuui-
cations with the eaSt and north. This
was on July IS, on August 3 the enc
my was brought back on the Nese, the
road to Nancy was freed and the road
to Paris was barred by operations in
which the American troops played a
prominent part
But the German army was still pow
erful and its losses were counter-bal-
anced lY the gains of the preceding
offensive, NJ Tardieu says. Then the
British army assumed the offensive.
Amiens was liberated: Montdidier fell,
the armies of General De Bcney and
General Humhert started a war Of po-
sition and on August 10 the French
reached the Oise. south of Noyon with
Mangin's army. The events up TO the
Q,.I ha a at
began, are described, and NJ. Tardleu
continues:
Situation L. summed Up.
Though it is too soon as yet to sum
up as whole, the military operations
extending from August to August
25. since the battle is still in prog
ress, the following results have al
ready been obtained.
"1-paris is no longer threatened.
"2--Our direct communications by
rail between Paris and Calais have
been rc-established. as had those be-
tween Paris and Nancy on July 20.
"3-Our third aim, to wrest the ini-
tiatve from the Germans, has likewise
been attained.
The instructions given by the Ger
man high command to the German
troops are now of a decidedly dcfen-
sive nature, They confess that the
situation is serious for Germany,
Judging from reliable documents it
seems that only twenty four fresh di-
visions, that is to say twenty-four di-
visions having been withdrawn from
the firing line for at least a month.
are now all the actual German re-
serves.
"Twenty-three others are being re-
formed,
Forty divisions, whose mo-
rale was considerably shaken, const-
tute the last German reserve in the
present battle.
Americans Menace to Huns.
"Tha answers of prisoners, secret
documents and letters addressed to
German soldiers reveal a great dis
couragement among them. They no
longer believe in victory and with
them 1t is only a question of holding
on to save Germany from disaster.
Germany knows how French and Eng
lsh reserves are not exhausted and at
last she begins to learn the value Of
the help that America brings to the
allies She realizes the American divi-
sions reformed after the operations
along the Nese and strengthened by
"a constant flow OF new divisions are
IN themselves Ilefdte every uaS
more imminent. The German officers
taken prisoner before July IS, asserted
they did not believe in the participa
ton of the Americans in the battle.
"Those made prisoners in the last
operation recognized the fighting
qualities of the Americans are exceed
ingly great and their tenacity eXtaror-
dinary.
N"ff the whole American army they
added, shows the same dash, the Ger
man cause is LOST