Republican farmer., 1918-04-26
U. s. SOLDIERS DUE TO WAKEN GERMAN TROOPS Americans Have Right Spir- it, Says Official Austral-
 ian Correspondent. LORRAINE LINE
 LOOKS PROMISING Huns Have No Chance Against These Men, Is
 Cutlack's Opinion.

Behind the British Lines in France April 20-The Germans are in for a rude awakening if they are sincere in discounting the American army in France, in the opinion of F. S. Cut lack, assistant official correspondent with the Australian Imperial Force.
 ''The Americans he asserted, have a spirit for which the Kaiser would sacrifice a good half of his numbers if he could get it into his troops today" Returning from a visit to the American forces ST. Cut lack wrote:
 ''The dominant fact in the arrival of the United States army is the as paint-and keen as a racehorse in training-or rather whole paddock ful of racehorses. The world will probably not have the chance again of seeing such a spectacle of amateur Warlike earnestness, for the Ameri- cans are learning very fast. Tt saw something of the same sort when the Australian War Army be- gan long ago in 1914-the same light
 
 raw quality all untrained and ineX- perienced, the same outpouring of the very best of a whole country in all emotion of national pride, counting 1 neither cost nor returns. The .Ameri- cans are not soldiers yet, and nc 1 people realize better than them selves how much they have still to dc to make themselves soldiers, but l 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 British Empire has the best of req | sons for knowing how with the vital ! spark in him the most unmilitary civilian may become a fine soldier l But no army you can read of in his tory ever marched with a more 1 splendid ardor or faced great strug. gle with serener satisfaction than the American Expeditionary Force 1T | France. And it is such a mighty army. They will not tell you how big, and you are discouraged from guessing, but we ran through all 2 | | still the American host dotted tht landscape, drilling, marching, man oeuvering, building camps ant roads.
 They are learning the art of fight ing from the best soldiers of Cranct and Britain, and many of their off cers as attaches of one sort or an other, have seen a lot of this wal from the German and Turkish sid' as well. We found a major who ha( watched the Gallipoi campaign iron the top of Battleship Hill and was iI the confidence of Liman von Sander and the Turkish Pashas. He ha; therefore a particularly warm regart for the Australians.
 We went up to see the American line in Sorraine. In their khaki ant round, tin hats among the Lorrain hills, they look and act very mucl like our own men; indeed they migh be our own fellows. They have tn same sturdy, self-reliant look. The, spread themselves over country in tn fashion of men accustomed to vas spaces. They walk with the sam easy, free-Hmbed carriage. Thei discipline, like ours, is a thing whicl force could never impose or maintain but is rather contributed voluntaril to a common good in violation 0 temperament and upbringing.
 Against these men, as against tn men of the British Empire, the Ger mans have no chance