Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-11-22
SUCCESSFUL DRIVE BY lNFAN
TRY FOLLOWS SUGGESTION
OF GENERAL PERsHlNG.
TACTICS OF AMERICA TO
IGNORE HEAVY GUNS
Pershina Declares Plan Win Gain
More in Days Than Artillery Atsains
in Month-Ameriea Troops to Be
Sent in Great Numbers and Will
Complete Training in France.
IBy Arthur Sears Hcnning, in
Chicago Tribune.

| washington Nov. 22-In demanding
the creation of supreme war council
| of all the allies President Wilson, 1t be-
came known today, had in mind not
only a greater coordination OF re-
sources and greater unity of action but
a new plan of campaign against the
German forces on the western front.
Advised by the general staff of the
army, the president as commander in
chief. is prepared to insist upon n radi-
cal departure in tactics, the chief fea-
ture of which is a proposal to abandon
primary reliance upon big guns and
deliver a terrific infantry smash on the
German lines.
BelittIe Big Guns.
The president has been advised by his
chief military counselors that the war
must be won on the western front;
that It will never be won by big guns,
but that it will be won by the effective
use Of overwhelming masses of infan-
,rvmen. aided by mobile artillery of
caliber not to exceed four inches
Now that the news from France has
Announced a tremendous victory by the
British troops, due mainly to gigantic
infantry onslaught it is not disclosing
military information valuable to the
enemy to discuss the new tactical pro-
poSals.
How much the American military
view had to do with Field Marshal
Haig's sudden infantry move without
the protection of the big guns is not
known here.
Views Of General Pershing.
It Is known, however, that General
Pershing has frankly expressed to the
allied commanders his view and that or
the American general staff to the erect
that the infantry, If hurled In over
whelming numbers. will gain more
ground in a day that the big guns In
month.
The statement in the dispatches that
the British infantry are still pressing
on leads general staff officers to believe
that The results within the next day or
two will vindcate conclusively the new
policy.
Whatever the outcome Of sthis par
ticular drive. General Pershing will
urge the development of general mill
tary policy by all the allies which Will
subordinate big gun duels to infantry
attacks.
In conformity with the views OF the
general staff on big guns the war de-
partment is pushing the production OF
mobile field artillery, such as the French
75s, approximately a three inch caliber.
and Is turning out few guns of larger
caliber.
Rush Troops to Europe,
likewise. in conformity with these
views. the war department is rushing
the dispatch Of troops to Europe. 1t Is
permissible to state that units of the
national army will be on their way to
France much earlier than hitherto had
been contemplated. Their training will
be curtailed in the United States ana
completed in Franc.
It is insisted that no American SOL
diers will be sent into action until they
are fully prepared, but 1t is of the ut
most importance to get as many men
to France as possible within the next
four months, and under these circum-
stances it will be necessary to interrupt
the training of many units in this coun-
try and provide for resumption OF
their training on the other side.
Need No Reminders.
Administration officials say 1t Is I'M
necessary for Lloyd George to remind
the United States, as he did yesterday,
that the allies would like to know when
there will be 100000 American SOL
diers in France. The British premier
may rest assured, It Is asserted, that
there will be 100000 fighting men in
the trenches by next summer at the
latest.
In this connection it is pointed out
that this is the first time the British
government has suggested that the
United States should rush large army
to France. When the British and
French war missions arrived last sum-
mer Marshal Joffre urged the immedi-
ate dispatch of American troops, while
Mr. Balfour and his military associates
were either silent or minimized the i'm
portance Of this suggestion.
Former Mount Pleasant Mayor Dies.