New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-22
First Men Drafted
To Be Called Up
Early This Week
Lack Of Ships May
KeepNationalArmy
Away from Front
Tonnage to Garry Supplies to
Force Abroad Cannot Be
Built in Year
TFrnrn Thn Trihnne BureAul

Washington, July 2l.-The menace OF
submarines to the transporting Of
American troops to France was en-
phasized to-day by eminent military
authorities, who expressed the opinion
that unless ship construction on large
scale was rushed Immediately to com
pensate for destruction, the United
States could not move 100000 troops to
Europe before September, 1918. Not
only was the submarine menace men
toned in connection with the military
, plans of the United States, but it was
added that il the German submarines
destroy 100000 more tons Of British
shipping, England will have to abandon
the Salonica campaign.
To serve the National Army which
will be sent to France, If peace is not
concluded within year, five million
tons of shipping will be required, a
figure so far beyond the present re-
sources Of the Allies and America, tax
ing into consideration the necessity OF
supplying the Allied forces already IN
the field, that the needed tonnage can
not be constructed in the next twelve
months.
The troops could be transported to
France. That is only an incident
However big the problem Of troop
transportation really is, the naked fact
stands out that comparatively few
more troops can be dispatched TO
France within q year and adequately
supplied, while the further condition
obtains that there Is not now under
construction in the world sufficient ton
mage TO accommodate Americas Ma
tional Army of 100000 men at the be-
ginning Of September, 1918, unless SUB
marine operations cease.
Hold Guard In Camps
II Is understood on excellent author
lily that the present plans OF the war
4 Depa rtment for the movement Oh addl-
tional troops to France contemplate !ne
holding Of one divisional ORGANIZATION
of the National Guard in its stste
camps. instead Of sending 1t to the Na-
tional Guard encampments, ana the
best information at hand points 10 a
New York division as the one most
available. Ranking next in the rne
I for service in France are SAID 10 De
the Pennsylvania and the Ohio "a,
tional Guard. II has been intimaleu
that the New York division thus Sc
lected will remain at the state camp
until the moment arrives Tor its en-
barkation for France.
The attitude Of the State Department
toward the suppression OF information
relative to the critical nature OF tne
submarine campaign is believed 70 De
that the best purposes OF the Aires
and America are not served oy H. put
inasmuch as the Information Is iur-
nished to this government "conhdeh,
TALLY" by Great Britain, the United
States has no choice but to observe
the confidence. This government makes
public every sinking Of an American
merchant ship, perferring not to fol-
low the British practice OF conceaiing
the name and tonnage Of the victim.
Figures Are Refused
Officials were emphatic to-day IN eA-
pressing the opinion that the press
ought neither to minimize nor to mag
nify the submarine peril IN It's reiauoh
10 the issue Of the war, but again re
fused to furnish figures based on ON
cial reports, so that the people might
know the extent of the danger threat
enine the Allied and American cause;
At the Navy Department 1t was de-
MED that il possessed figures on sub
marine activities, notwithstanding that
il was known that Britain has been iur-
nishinc this information with the con-
dition that il be treated as coniden-
tial. The advantage Britain claims 20
see in this concealment was SAID 70 De
military, the British Admiralty main
tanning that, if published, the informa-
ton would give Germany an accurate
REQUIREMENT Of the success OF the SUD,
marine campaign. It was not denied
that German submarines report az
REGULAR intervals 70 their bases; that'
in addition, they are capable OF com
nunicating by wireless 70 certain as
.ances: that the German Admiralty OBJ
tsins all the information Of military
value concerning the destruction OF
merchantmen, and that in the enc ~
"a only the people OF America and OF
Tho Allied countries who are kept IN
tbe dark by their governments refusal
to inform them.