The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-01-29

Replies to Attack Made BY
Chamberlain.
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si0ns and national guard divisions. Sc
lectcd according to the state of their
and keep back here some
part Of our trained force in order that
II might innocnlate with It's spirit and
its training these raw levies. which we
were training and one after another
these divisions have gone over until in
France their is fighting army. an
;Tmy trained in the essentials and In
the beginnings OF military discipline
and practice. md trained, seasoned
fighters in this kind Of a war on the
actual battle fields where it is taking
place.
Ask for WorkSnen.
Early In this war. when Joffrc was
here and when Baifonr was here. they
said 10 us. 1T may take you some INN.
to got over to us a fighting army. but
you are a great Industrial country, our
man power Is fully engaged in our in
dnstrics and in our military enter
prises. send over artisans, special en-
cheering regiments and troops OF a.
technical character and although 1t
was not contemplated at the outset,
and only q phrase in the emergency
military legislation shows that the
thing was thought of as 8; posS(bflity.
yet in a very short time had organized
engineering regiments of railroad men
and sent them oyer there and were re-
building behind the lines Of tho British
and French railroads. which were be-.
ing carried forward with their ad-
vance. demonstrating their broken en-
|gines and cars. building new railroad.
both back OF tho French and British
Hines and those regiments were 81 such
Quality that at the Cambria assault,
Fcarried on by General Byng. when the
Germans made their counter attack our
engineer regiments threw down their
hicks and spades and carried their
Erifles into the battle and distinguished
themselves by gallant action in the war
Eitself
Build New psrts.
1.-THE channel ports have been re-
served for the British. When we came
in it was necessary Tor us to have in
dependent ports Of entry in order that
| there might not be confusion and ad :
Emixtsire OF our supplies. going through
these ports Of Decentralization with
those Of other nations. We were given
several ports. As you perhaps recall
Ethe ports OF France are tidal ports,
ports with deep water and tidal basins
at high tides, with insufficient water
for landing at the docks when the tide
In out.
"As n consequence the construction
of docks and wharves In ports Of that
kind IL very much more difficult than
where you have deep sen harbor
and all YOU need to do IL to erect a
pile wharf We have had to build
docks. We have had 10 fabrlcate 10
this country and send off. dock
handling machinery; we hive had Il
send from this country even the piles
to build the docks. We have had to
have gauntry cranes. manufactured ID
this country and sent over to b<
erected on those docks. We have had
to erect over there warehouses at the
ports of Decentralization in order thai
these vast ACCOMMODATIONS OF stores and
lsupplies which 70 over can be properly
housed and cared for. until they car
be distributed into the interior.
/ eu;lcine Raiirosds.
we have had to take over and are
In the process of rebuilding and ampli.
flying a railroad 600 miles long in order
to carry our products from our porti
of Decentralization to our general basei
oil. operations. And all OF that, gentle.
men, has to be done. not only studied
out. an a necessary thing to do. hui
when so studied out and reported here
the manufactures for those thing.
have to be carried on In this countr,
land the things shipped over there
nails. cross ties. spikes. fish plates
engines. cars. buildings.
I'VE have. had to build barracks ovel
there for our soldiers. and in the mean.
time to billet them around In tn,
French villages. Building barraclx,
ever there and building them here l,
very different thing. gentlemen.
Enlisted Lumber lnduatry.
when We summoned the lumber
industry of this country to produces
the lumber to build our own canton.
ments, 1t came in n great and steady
l oNek tItt COulltTys w
when we talk about building barrack.
in France 1t means this: It means 4
organize. as we have organized. regi.
ments Of foresters and sending then
over into the forests of France. which
they have assigned to us for our use
Icutting down the trees. setting VI
saw mills, making humber Of variou.
sizes, transporting 1t to the place.
whore it is to be used. and then final,
using it.
1--WE have had to 90 back TO the
planting OF the corn in France in or.
der that we might some time make 8
harvest. Our operations began In thu
| forests of France. not In the lumbel
yards as they did in this country"
| Wonderful Work Done.
| your committee win have full op,
portunity. and win doubtless 20 into
those things. If YOU win deal with tbs
hospital situation. the medical corps
the signal corps. you will hear Of the
Wonderful work done by the engineer,
I a