El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-01-22

~pEDuaILY the bad news Is coming out While the
u ~ Vas On We heard the good news mostly, Of the
vstfng IN which Americans participated, Of battles won
~ qsiIv CHARGING Yans Of Germans slain OF keen 10 SUI
.5sr Of machine gun nests which, at the WORST "sis
onIy minor difficulty LII, occurred
e. to-z adds inmeasurably to the glorious reoOIu
mons in the war because IT shows they won
:. -, beaten and running army, but from very
- "a determined one that fought them with every
- - his command and he had plenty They won n
- If the eneuy's bitterest resistance and also IN spite
= t+sgss Of number Of vital elements horses arli-
1srv sfruIanes and, for time, mzehine guns
sssuss Of the censorship, did not hear mueh OF t
befors the arustios signed Attention IS oe'eu ~
II nov principally put people on the rlgnt traek N an
;tosl sense and to show what censorship really IS
with good effect bad it is able to keep the people u
nation in almost complete ignorance Of events
g tov T. worked in Germanys case. It vas so COM
se FRAT il was only at the end that the German peoPe
yoke Id TO the fact that their country mad LOST tle We
IL natter Of fact II has been lost Tuetuevaniy ever
80 last Tuv and virtually lost long before that ana v"
Americans msrveled at the time that the Germans ae no.
realize it. All the while We were getting dose Of me
ae kind Of censorship ourselves Perhaps our censorship
did not lie to Us did the German; II Just conoeaeo-
Newspaper and magazine correspondents had men
iqv sarDlv crcumscribed BY the censorship Specta-
tors Fps we're sealed By it. Soldiers who knew what
he'll they actually going through, what the losses
were and what the defects Of army organization IN
unable 20 TT1te nome ABOUT Il II was
when somebody big ike Maj Gen Leonard Wood visited
the fighting line and then home and jumped over the
traces and told about what he saw that heard the bad
as vel the good And remember what happened 10
Gen. Wood
Last SUMMER Henry J. Allen, governor Of Kansas,
ard william Allen White went 10 France and saw good
asuv things and then returned Mr. White delightful
oris wrote series of stories about their experiences
II his most entertaining style and then delivered NUMBER
Of lectures. Nh. Allen also got into print
But Nj Allen, now governor has expressed himself not
bHthey since the is and the censorship IS
off III. White may also be heard from N similar
way.
euts chiefly Characterized BY lack Of adJeeves and
b. their generally restrained tone He has said, however,
that lack Of artillery support failure Of the horse supply
and shortage Of arpanes resulted n the cutting TO pieces
Of the SSH division during the battle Of the Argonne for-
est that there too few horses and that many OF
those which the division had purchased IN France at
as much 500 apiece but old and feeble as to be
useless and had to be shot; that the Germans maintained
domination the that only did the infantry
suffer heavy casualties from heavy shelng and bombing
such American sTiators went knew they had TO
g against odds Of three to five to one and that
wounded Americans lEy in sheholes INTENDED for from
50 50 hours because there was way Of caring for
then
Arthur Ruh IN the latest issue Of Golfers touches
this last phase writing Of engagement in the open
between American patrols and German artillery and ma
chine guns
two young majors up there ION the skirmish
re) with the remnants Of two battahOns he writes
aRaked By machine gun fire whenever head showed,
pounded By artillery whether they showed themselves OF
rest Half Of their gone; the rest hungry
and tired; Of their wounded had been waiting for the
stretcher bearers for the whole two days"
None q this ont IN the censored reports; nor did