The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-26
new WAR MISSION
France to Send Another Dele
CATION of War Experts.
Tardieu, Head of Delegation,
Urges Hard and Quick Blow.
BY w. S. FORREST.


Paris, April 26.-To preach the Cos
pei of an intensive war is the mission
On which Andre Tardieu and a group
of French specialists in various depart
menrs of the -r are shortly to leave
for America as representatives of the
French government i. the allied con-
ferences.
To the United Press today Tardieu
outlined what this new mission plans,
and emphasized the imperative neces-
sity that America and Americans
throw their full weight immediately
into the struggle if they desire to give
best aid to the allies and help win the
war in the shortest possible time
Editor, publicist. writer, diplomatist
and for two years a fighter a. the
front. Tardieu Is convinced the way to
beat the enemy is by the heaviest pos
in preparations for this sort of war
fare.
Knows Frances Needs.
Tardieu said he had practically COM
pleted full list of what France need
ed from America. On arrival in
Washington he will submit to officials
this list of Frances necessities and will
inquire as to Americas ability to sup
ply them-to what extent and in what
length of time. He proposed to bal
ance this Information with Frances
needs and inform his government ex-
actly what may be expected from
America in the shape of ships food
munitions, money, soldiers and the
like
Official announcement was withheld
today of the exact number of French
war specialists who will accompany
Tardieu, but it was stated that thew
will be drawn from various services
All are experts They will be prepared
and commissioned-to work in the
closest cooperation with American
OFFICIALS and with the British ana ItaI-
ian missions IN Washington with a
view to distribution of supplies under
existing allied agreements.
For this purpose Tardieu has been
vested with full information and with
full power to act.
Ships, Grain, Steel First.
First of all France needs ships. grain
and steel. Tardieu hopes to confer
with General Goethals about Amer
1cas building program of Submarine
evaders' and to talk with other Amer
lean experts in VariodS lines. He in
dicated today he would not hesitate at
the proper time to give the press of
America an opportunity to spread to
the nation the Importance of the
United States working its hardest
now that she is in the war
Commissi 1ner Tardieu refused to in
dictate today whether he would urge
that American troops be sent imme-
diately to the front-but he added.
Speaking just as citizen of France,
I would emphasize that this nation
would give unprecedented welcome to
the olive-green of the American uni
form-and the sooner the better"
Tardieu is bound to make a dis
tinct impression on America and
Americans. He is almost Rooseveltian
in type-a man with intense dynamic
energy harnessed by complete know
ledge of actual war conditions. gained
first hand on the battlefields.
go Easy Plan Failure
1t is to be expected he will do WON
ders in impressing Americans that
Europe is expecting their intensive aid
and that any inclination now to go
easy means a longer war and lives
and money uselessly lost.
Tardieu is the editor of the IA
nous Revue des DeuX Mondes. has
seen diplomatic service. is a deputy,
and has previously visited and writ
ten a book about America