Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-08-16
AMERICA WILL USE
LAST MAN TO WHIP
KAISER SAYS MARCH
NEW DRAFT, CHIEF or STAFF
ANNOUNCES. WILL GIVE $500
coo NEW MEN FOR FOREIGN
SERVICE.

Washington. August Pour mil
lion American soldiers can defeat the
German army in The belief OF Gen.
March. chief Of staff. and present
plans OF the war department cali for
more than thar number under arms
next summer. with some 3.2U0,0G0 OF
them. or eighty divisions in France
by June 80.
Gen March expressed the spirit be
hind the new man power III these
words.
I'VE are Going to win this war if
1t takes every man in the United
STATES
These and other important facts
concerning the nations ef1ort in the
war. as given 10 the senate military
committee by Gen, March. Secretary
J Baker ana Provost Marshal General
Crowder, were revealed by Chairman
Chamberlain in presenting to the SEN
ate the administration man power bill
extending the draft ages 10 include all
men between the ages of Is and A.
years.
President Wilson is determined TO
bring the war TO conclusion by
concentrating all forces on the west
ern front. including Italy, Secretary
Baker told the committee and Gen
March supplemented this by stating
that il was the purpose to end the
great world struggle quickly and de
Cisiyely.
Gen March added:
Without being conscious OF it the
hammering that the other nations
have had now for four years has great
ly lowered their energy and freshness
| and their lighting power. When the
] great mass OF fresh Americans come
in they will have an entirely differ
! ent view OF the lighting from that
which now exists.
"And II is and should be and is 20
ing to be our policy to get those
millions of men together as an Amer
/ lean army and finish the war in the
! shortest possible time.
For the nation not to put forth
4 its maximum effort at once woulC
= be but playing Germany's game"
Thirty.one American divisions, o
approximately 1905 900 men, now ar
: in France, with as many more il
camps in this country as reserve
Secretary Baker sal dthat the acce
Grated program of troop movement
which has enabled Gen. Pershing t
organize his first field army of som,
100000 men will be continued be
cause Of the generous action of thu
British government in supplying ship
ping.
To carry out the present program o
eighty divisions overseas by June j.
nearly 1000, 900 men must be sent t.
France in the next eleven months.
Fourteen National Army division
already are in France, the secretar!
said. They are in the new field arm!
organization recently announced b!
Gen. Pershing
There also are twelve Nationa
Guard divisions, including the Rain
bow" organization, overseas, togethe
with five regular army divisions
Gen March told the committee, ac
cording to the report to the senate
that he was in favor Of young men 10
the army, and that the youths of I
registered nnder the, new draft lay
would be i'm France by June 80. "Th
freshness and vigor OF our troops,
the general added, are the creates
single military asset Of the allies"
Gen. March estimated that som
2.30000o men qualified for full mil
tary service would be secured frOr
the new registrants. and he outline
the calls for the next year or more a
follows.
August. 250,000; September, 200
n 00o; October, $4,000; November
10000; December. 100000 Jannar,
100000; February, 100000; and 300
I 600 monthly thereafter until the en-
of next year.
l Exhausted by Oct. 1.
Il Gen. LrOWder in his rpnOrt ha
said that the present reservoir i
Glass will be exhausted by next Oc'
!, but Secretary Baker made It plai
today that the reservoir Of men no.
in camp in this country Is sutiicien
to keep up the present troop move
ment overseas