The Sentinel=record., 1918-01-29


 every country which has been brought Tn the war has brought us that sort or sent us that sort of a staff of ex- perts and it has been necessary to compare notes and with this as a DaSls to form such an idea as might De formed of what was the thing for us to do over there.
 But that was not enough. They admitted that it was impossible to draw that picture. They could de- SeHle to us and bring the specified uons and drawings fora piece of ar- tliery, but they could net tell us why the British theory of the use of ar tlilery was by the British preferred to that of the French. They could not plctre to us a barrage of heavy howitzers as compared to barrage of 75 milimeter guns. They could moi picture to us the association of air crait, balloons and mobile aircraft With artillery uses. They could tell us about it, but even while they told us the story grew old.
 The one thing they told us from the very beginning to the end was that this war of all others. was not a saitic thing; that our adversary was q versatile and agile adversary; that every day he reYamped and changed his weapons of attack and his meth ods of defense; that the stories they were telling us were true when they lerL England and France, but an en- tirely different thing was probably taking place there now and they told Us of large supplies of weapons of one kind and another which they had developed in France and England and which even they got them fin such quantity manufactured to rake them rom the industrial plants to the fronts, were superseded by new ideas and had to be thrown into the scrap heap
 Therefore it became necessary for us to have eyes there in instant and immediate communication with us and We sent over to France General Per shina and we sent with him not mere ly a division of troops-to that shall refer in a moment-but we sent with nim perhaps can say safely the ma ior part of the trained expert per sennel of the army. You know the size of the official corps of the regu- lar army iI this country when the war broke out It was pitiful hand fall of trained men and yet it was necessary to divide them up and send over to France officers of the highest quality os that they would be at the front and see in the workshops and in the factories and in the war offices and in the armies where consulta- tions would take place. immediately back of the front--so that they could see the thing with their own eyes and send it's back the details by cable eevrv day of the changing character of this war
 General pershing's staff of ex- perts and officers over there runs into the thousands and they are busy every minute and every day get cablegrams from General Pershing from ten 10 sixteen and twenty pages long filled with measurements and formulas and changes of a millimeter in size, great long specifications of changes in details of things which were agreed upon last week and changed this week and need to be changed again next week so that what we are doing a, this end is attempt ine by using the eyes of the army there to keep up b what they want us to de. Already you will find in your further examination into some of the aureau work of the department that schedules which were agreed, weap- ons which were selected and which l-- Hf,NfasTkIfrf-ra f1N p ACIr EOIfR