The sun., 1918-11-17
GREENHORNS SAVED
PARIS, SAYS STONE
General Manager Of Associated
Press Tells of Strategy
Of FOch.
PICKED AMERICA TO WIN
Put New Troops Against Pick
of Kaiser's Army to Break
German Spirit.
PICKED AMERICA TO WIN

That Marshal Foch. acknowledged
master strategist among the military
leaders of the Powers .arrayed against
Germany. justified himself as a super
strategist when he chose TO throw di-
visions OF American troops into the
nghting just preceding Chateau Thierry.
was the judgment expressed last night
by Melville L. Stone. general manager
Of the Associated Press. who has Just
returned to the United States after a
long term of duty in England and
France.
Mr.. Stone was the principal speaker
last night at a dinner given him by the
l.otos Club, of which he has been q
member for more than a score of years.
AS active manager of great news
gathering association he has enjoyed
contact with military and political lead
ers in the war denied to the average
newspaper representative and spoke last
night from a wealth OF experience,
which for a hundred reasons he has had
10 keep undisclosed until after HOSTILE
ties were concluded.
In q speech in which he went'Otnto
various phases of the war with which
lie had had exceptional opportunities to
learn OF matters Of the first importance
lie said:
"On the 21st Of last March the hordes
Of Germany were Btraining every ounce
Of their discipline and resource to reach
Calais and Boulogne. The armies pitted
against them knew this. and Gen. Foch
first selected the flower Of his own and
Britain's troops to receive the hammer
blows Of their heaviest attacks.
Put Against Strongest Troops.
Meantime the intelligence services OF
his own stan and Sir Douglas Haig's
staff and Gen. Pershing's staff kept their
chiefs apprised. from day to day of ex-
actly what troops of the German armies
were pitted against our own and their
own forces at various points in the line!
"And from these reports Marshal
Foch drew a great inspiration. One
day he decided that he would oppose
the strongest part of the German line
that composed OF the Kaiser's shock
and guard troops-with the best Amer
lean troops available to his purpose.
The Germans had underestimated
the Importance Of Americas entry into
the war. They had at first imagined
Va q dollar chasing nation, which in
the event of war with them would cap
!talixe its advantage and take prob
ably no more valiant part in the hos
t,lities than that of supplying food and
munitions and money to the other fight
ing countries. Then they depended on
their submari nes. believing that in that
arm they held the means to prevent
Americas legions-if she raised them
from ever reaching France.
when our men arrived in large
numbers the Germans felt dismay. but
even then felt certain that our unframed
soldiers never could stand against their
veterans.
What the "Greenhorns" Did.
But one day their best troops-on
the day that Foch designed that they
should-suddenly found themselves fac
ing the despised American 'greenhorns.'
1--WE all know now what happened and
we know that the American fighting
man accomplished three things. He
saved Paris. He taught the Germans
that the greenhorn troops could whip
them and he set a standard for the
American soldier that the American SOL
der never will dare to lower.
I'VE call the American soldiers our
boys and the country takes an interest
in them, In which motherliness is now
perhaps the principal emotion. But to
the Germans and through all Germany
on the east side of the Rhine they are
rot boys at all. but giants ten feet high"