The Green Forest tribune., 1907-01-04

all-embracing strategic plan of cam paigning must be adopted by the al- lies to force the war to an end quickly. No officer of any army can talk for publication upon military subjects, but enough has been learned from high army headquarters here and abroad to let the American people know that a grand plan of campaign is the thing which today is being sought.
 No one of the visiting officers and no one of our own officers who are in conference with them is in ignor- ance of the exhaustive studies which Major Sargent has made of strategy, and of the high standing which his works on military operations have at tainec in the war offices of the world.
 Pointedly, the thing which some thing more than interests civilians here is why has not he war depart ment taken a chance, if one may so soldier whose strategic studies have been endorsed by the world, to bear hand in the active constructive work of the headquarters planning in the city of Washington?
 It may be, of course, that the war department has done this, but again the suspicion is that it has not. There is probably not an officer in the United States army who, If consulted by the civilian military authorities, would not suggest that Major Sargent be brought forth from his eloister to the scene of active duty, if not in the field at least at the great council table which soon will be surrounded by the students of strategy of all nations.
 Veterans Here to Help.
 At the various American canton ments today there are British army officers on special missions who have just taken up the work of advising their American brethren in the matter of training of new troops for the trenches.
 It has been learned that a mistake was made when it early was asserted that these seasoned veterans of the front line trenches in France were to act directly as instructors to the Amer ican forces now in training in this country. Of course they will be in- structors in high sense, but their in- structions will be given through the mediumship of American line officers. The authorities have thought 1t best that the duty should be done In this way.
 These veterans of the British line are splendid men physically, and un- questionably so mentally and morally or otherwise they would not have been sent to America. They are soldier like in appearance, as they have been soldierlike in service. Nearly every one of them has been wounded in bat tie, and all of them repeatedly have been through the hell of the fighting at the British front.
 Major Bishops Great Record.
 spent couple of hours with these officers of the British service. One of them, Maj. William Avery Bishop, has won the Victoria Cross, and the Nfili- tary Cross, and twice has been given the decoration of the Distinguished Service Order. The French it is said are arranging to give him the Cross of War. It is probable that no other man in the warfare of all time has won such recognition for high gal lantry. He is Canadian from Owen Sound, in the Lake Huron country, and he is only twenty-three years old.
 This youthful Canadian is an avia. tor, and only one man in all the arm ies of Europe has surpassed his rec ord, and that man is dead, Guynemer the Frenchman, brought down 52 Ger man airplanes. Guynemer held the record, but he is gone. Bishop has brought down AT German airplanes, and has engaged single handed in no fights He is the marvel of the Brit ish air service. In his 11G battles he never has received scratch. .s>
 It is not likely that Aviator Bishop will remain long in the United States. He has won a rest, Sut he does not look as if he needs it. He went straight to his canadian home on his arrival at an Atlantic port, and soon thereafter married "the girl he left behind him" when he went flying to the front two years ago. Bishop never sat in the seat of flying machine un- til after he had reached England. Fly ing seems to be an instinct with him.
 Other Distinguished Men Here.
 Among other British officers here whom I nave met and talked with at length are Major Day, and Captains Hall, Greene&Rnd Heinmann. Major Day has beenIa British regular for wears. He went to France with the first British army and fought with it back to the Marne, and then from the Marne forward. He was engaged in the fight in which the Germans first used poisonous gases. Major Day and one comrade officer are the only ones still attached to the regiment with which they entered the war;
 This British major went to the Phil- ippines and fellowshiped with Ameri- can regulars for while. He is seem- ingly somewhat proud of the fact that he can roll, after American teaching, certain brand of tobacco into a we'll made, compact cigarette, and smoke it with the enjoyment which he does not get from the readymades.
 Major Day will stay in Washington for time, while Captains Hall, Greene and Heinmann will go to the American cantonments. Two of these