The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-07-18

oppose them. as they have -E5naSs
1900 yards, they can be placed wfier-
ever it pleS$Ss the enemy, and We
might as wen lombard them with F6-
man candles as with 6nr Sunk
II tell you, said the president, :.the
country Is wffd! The people know TINT
You have the whole 6f a magnf4c cent
railroad system. from here to New
York at -FOUR disposal. They know
that the invading army must h1ye
spread out tremendously 70 hold all
the territory that it occupies. They
cannot understand why you should not
be able to engage the force that Is adj
vancing on New York
The general walked to the wall map
The enemy Is thinned out, yes. he
laid his niger ON the chart -"but to
meet him we must move due south 140.
miles down the Hudson valley, with
the river ON one side OF us and the.
Berkshire and Lttchneld hills Of Mas
sachusetts ana Connecticut on the 9th
er. We cannot leave men behind MS
to protect that length Of line and hold
open our road for US IL we have to re-
ed to Atlanta he left $4,000 men be
hind him TO guard his 300 mile line
back through Chattanooga to NASH
Vile. We have less than $4,000 man
In our whole army, even IL we scrape
together all the very latest green ar
rivals.
1The moment we leave, our base"
continued the commander, .tthe enemy
HEADQUARTERS will know It. They will
Instantly begin a big shifting OF their
New England forces. They will push
them across into New York state be-
hind us, ana we'll be trapped"
.sYou think that they can concentrate
swiftly enough ?r asked the secretary
of war.
The soldier pulled paper out OF the
pile and read: "Observer at Providence
reports that hostile forces entrained
cavalry, field and heavy artillery and
ammunition columns at regular rate Of
two hours for full military train. Time
half hours"
He tossed the papers aside. when
did any of our officers ever have to
handle 10000 lnen?r he asked. How
many of them ever handled as many
as IU,UUVs 14HSI week wv 1SSLAGASSC
were left without food for two meals
on practice march because their
commissary fafied to supply travel ra.
lions. Day before yesterday seven
boxes OF provisions were found lying
I'm company street without any one
to claim them. Those were militia, but
our own officers equally lack expert
ence in handling such a big contract
as whole army
do you know what it means to SEQ
that an infantry division gets Its ma
terial? Do you know, what we've got
to send Into battle with it? It means
an ammunition train OF 165 four-mule
wagons and more than 100 mules ana
horses Then there are the other sup
ply trains, the pack trains and the en-
gineer trains-135 more wagons and
600 animals. There are ninety am
balances and wagons with their AMI
mails. And this Is without counting
the horses for the cavalry and the sig
nal corpsi tell you. Mr.. President. II
we unload that mess IN the face OF an
enemy like the one down there"-he
pointed southenstward-'it will never
get back herer'
..And If you stay here! Won't you
be attackedw asked member OF the
presidents party.
Fl think not" The general turned
to the chart again. '.see here; he's
got a great big territory to hold al
ready. When he has New York city
and harDor to control also think he'll
be too well occupied to attack us until
he brings re endorsements across. At
any rate, he can't come to US except
from the direction of New York citS
up the narrow river valley or from the
direction of Massachusetts through the
Berkshire hills. We can make the
hanks of the Hudson dihcult place
FOR him, ana the longer we can hold
on here the longer the ordnance works
at Waterviiet can continue to turn out
the heavy guns that we need 80 sore
". watervliet, Mr.. President, Ia my
eyes is the most precious thins We've
got to guard just now
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