The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1914-05-21
United States Regulars Max
ing Exhaustive Study Of
French Military Tactics
and Equipment
ONE MAN ADMITTED
TO THE WAR COLLEGE
Hundred American Delegates
Expected to Attend Inter-
national Congress of Com
mercial Executives.

Paris. May 20-The movement OF
American troops Go Mexico brings to
notice the fact that ten United States
army Officers. representing all
branches OF the service. are on duty
in France for instruction In French
military training. They are here by
permission of the French govern
ment. given upon request Of the Unit
ed States and ar welcomed In the
%triendliest spirit. II appears to be
the intention OF the war department
at Washington 60 have six officers
continuously on service In France so
that French experience and French
military science may from year to
year be available for the United
States army. Occasionally an Eng
lish officer or officers from the Bal
a and other smaller states have had
permission To serve with one or an
other at the French regiments but
Il would seem that no foreign army.
not even the Russian. has during this
generation had such opportunities to
know the French military system as
the Americans now have.
Captain W. a. Castle Is In an in
fantry regiment al orleans. Captain
y. Margettes ana Lieutenant a. 4.
Bishop with other regiments at cha
Ions sur Marine, Lieutenant Il. r. Boyd
with the dragons at B-ontainbleau.
Lieutenant W. T. Martin at the caval-
~ school at saumur, Captain L. II.
Pope In the French quartermaster's
school and Captain Frank Parker
al the War college. Captain Morton
Henry Of the American quartermas-
ters division and Lieutenant r.. 5.
Greblo and Honeycutt Of the artillery
have just arrived to replace three
other American officers and three
others are expected. The three latter
do not got into tho French service
until October. In TIN meantime they
are required 20 live In French families
and perfect their knowledge oil
French.
Captain Parker in tho War college,
the exclusive school Of higher strate-
gy, has probably the rarest ppo
tunity n one not shared by any
other foreign officer. Eighty French
officers are admitted annually Out OF
from 400 to 500 applicants who take
the severe competitive examination.
Years Of study are devoted by the
French officer In preparation for
this examination because all selec-
tions for the general staff are made
from graduates Of the War college
n no French officer need expect
high command unless he has gone
successfully through mis training In
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An armchair has been placed for
Captain Parker apart from the other
officers ~ ncaresa Tho lecturers
platform So hat the American guest
may have "a better chance than any
one else To follow the exposition OF
a subject and see the diagrams. The
work In tho War college Is severe
n r. from q a. n. TO 6 p. m. Part
OF 1t consists Boz hard riding over bat
tleficlds of France. the lecturer OF
he day explaining the operations OF
he troops that took part.
Nearly a hundred American dele
gates are expected 20 attend the In
ter national Congress Of Chambers Of
Commerce. which meet in Paris
June 8 and continues five days. Dan
lei 4. Kingsley. George 4. Wilson.
Samuc. w. F5irchnd, James Brown
and MacDougall Hawkes. viii come
from Sew York while delegations
equally large viii probably come from
twenty-five Other American cities,
among them Ensfon. Baltimore. ~
lanta. Sew orleans, phila ialphia Ds-
troit. Louisville Cine in3'', India I.
apolis, Chicago. 81. Ions Kansas
City Minneapolis, ~. Paul, omaha,
Denver, Seattle. Portland. ore, and
San Francisco.
Edward a. Filene OF Boston and
the other American members Of the
permanent committee wnich has Of
fices In Brussels are endeavoring 10
%roorganize the Intentional Assocla-
tioa 81 Chaml,Ha az Commerce SO
INIT Il shall becoro a more vital
boay. The permanent committee now
has only the fInrTion % carrying out
the resolution passed By tho biennial
congresses. The American reprcsen-
tation desires 90 have a committee
which viii take up and carry through
now business as Il arises during the
intervals between the biennial sessions
OF the %congrcss. The con %asittce
would be authsrixcd 60 take a refer
endum OF The mcmherhip In the man
nor o done by the Chamber OF
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