The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-18
COOPERATION OF
 ALLIED NATIONS
 MOST ESSENTIAL
French Commissioner Tar dieu Says Close Coordin-
 ation Imperative.

- Washington, May 1S.-Andre Tar dieu,. High Commissioner and head of the permanent board of war experts, who will represent France in the con- claye of allied war missions at Wash ington, has arrived here to continue the work of the commission headed by M viviani and Marshal Joffre. The staff of the permanent mission includes Messrs. Edouard de Billy and Maurice Game, MT. Cablat and MT. Level.
 MT. Tardie has been engaged dur ing the last year in war organization work in the capacity of controller of heavy ordnance, subsequent to active service in the first two years of the war as captain of infantry in the bat ties of the Marne, Ypres, Arras and Verdun. Previous to the war he held many important posts, displaying his versatility as attache to the Embassy of Berlin in 1897, to the Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1898. At a later date he was Secretary to the Council of Ministers, editor of the Revue des Deux Mondes, and author of a num- Der of works bearing upon French di- p1o1nacy. <, His most recent services prior to 1914 were rendered as mem- Der of Parliament of Versailles and professor at the Eco1e Euperieure de Guerre.
 when interviewed Mr. Tardieu very readily expressed the purpose and aims which the commission holds up to itself and voiced the courageous determination with which this body of enainentiy qualified men will at tack the problems which face it. MT. Tardieu said:
 t ~1, with the American press, which has played such an important part in the events of the recent months. ''The task which my collaborators | and myself are going to undertake with the government of the United States is immense and difficult. But the solidarity of both the aims and l the means is complete and is for us a guarantee of success.
 "Our object is, by means of good. exact and precise method. to insure our common action in every branch the maximum of efficiency, finances transports, military and naval coop eration. revictualling, war fabrica- tons, organization of the economic offensive against Germany-such are the chief problems which we must solve.
 
 1fze those solutions that the French government has given me, with the title of High Commissioner, the gen. 1 eral management of the different missions which have been working fr your country most usefu1ly but in ths discreet manner which commanded | the serupH1ods respect of neutrality l To-day we are allies. and a new era is beginning. Ths scope of the pre- v1ous action must be Widsnad; quss- tiens have come to the foreground l which did not exist yesterday, It is necessary to work with increased en, srgy in a wider field of activity. l ''Mr. Viviani and Marshal Joffre fr 1 bringing to the American republic the greeting of the French republic have already acquainted your gov ernment with the general lines of ou1 program of collaboration. I have come in order tS organize in the clos est union with euf eminent Anbassa' dor, MT. JussefaHd, that collaboration in all its details. Indeed, to make il fruitful it must be set like 6 delicate piece of machinery.
 '"Fhe highly competent men who
 accompany me will be in position in all the branches of that f9fHaidab1t factory which constitutes maderf war, te tell you what we have dsnt and will explain ts you by means O. figures what we desire.
 sYsuF government will decide fEs' ls*eEy head in what shape the AHaeFi