Bisbee daily review., 1918-01-25
Friday Morning, January 25, 1918.
Our Army in France

America is facing more than test in this war, and perhaps the greatest them is to show whether if is big enough and strong enough hear the truth, declares the Kansas City Star We up lot
 of nattery and sentiment the debt repay ing to France We have found easy take We have permitted ourselves to pose considerably in the role of savior French people, and have been admrng
 ur own postures so much and listening intenty to the acclaim that we haven't had time to inquire how performance is measuring up the advance notices
 The American army has been in France six months. It is not in position where its lines of communicates are difficult or liable to interruption. is not under fire It is less 300 miles from the French ports to which American supply ships have fairly safe access anyway none of them have been sunk on the way to that port and far know everything that has been sent the army has reached it Yet the Amer can army yet prepared begin repayng the debt to France about which have heard so much. and about which the French people reported by trust worthy American correspondents have heard too much And not alone yet large enough in numbers but because the numbers there are not supplied the things fighting must have
 Casper Whitney who went to France to find out about the situation for York Tribune and who s so they would not be held up by censorship that American efficiency been given black eye in France. The French had heard good deal about American efficiency and expecting to great things when army got there What they have seen is an army without machine guns-an army that had to borrow guns the country it fight for. They saw army that Mir. Whitney has only five days advance raOns. reserves of heavy shoes or clothing. woolen socks except those furnished the hospitals by the Red Cross rubber boots so necessary trench work. motor transport compar able that evolved by the French and British and which we had before us as a working model
 America which leads the world in motor production arrived in France with what NIT. Whitney declares were second hand trucks of inadequate capacity and is now buying in Italy.
 This is condition which means simply that the sup ply and transport of an army comparatively small has broken down the start IL has broken down in fair weather with open the army only training
 When Lord NorthcIne in Kansas City he warned us that anything happened transport service would have army maroOned in France. an army that France could feed supply with fighting terisl. What he had in mind was failure to build enough ship tonnage lack of ship tonnage is not the only thing that might army. There is lack of for the relatively small in France MT Whitney charges indeed. that ships there only half laden Yet army today is marOoned army far having fighting equip ment is concerned. It is unready army notwith- standing it has for base the richest country in the world the greatest industry manufacturing ahre with patriotic feeling passionaely eager to strike telling hlOw for the worlds freedom
 What is the reason? Why is the government with every of the country disposal unable to make better showing after nearly year of war? The country is entitled know. to meet the of the truth not later when the remedy may come late
 For feared that the truth should be heard
 But him whom the truth would ndict-