Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-09-29
Harder Blows to Come, Mar
shall Tells Correspondent,
and the Huns TO Be Driven
Back Across the Rhine,
SUPREME COMMANDER
PRAISES u. S. ARMY
Battling Powers of Yankees
Are Wonderful; Their One
Thought to Make Up for Time
Which Has Been Lost,
BY William Cook.
Copyright, 1918, by the Press Publish
ing company.

(The New York WORLDLY
Especial Gable to the World and AL
buquerque Journal)
Headquarters of the Allied Com
mander in Chief in France, Sept. 2S.-
1--WE have reached the summit of the
war and are now going down the slope
perhaps slowly at first, but il will
be like ball rolling down hill, which
gathers speed as it goes. If our ball
shows an inclination to go faster, we
Will let it go and help it on"
So spoke Marshal Foch, general
issimo of the allied armies in France,
when he received me this morning
in company with some British, Spanish
and Swiss journalists.
The marshal came forward to greet
us as soon as we arrived. Smiling,
looking extremely we'll and young not
WithgtHnding hi si..5.' & -, ssS..l., The
generalissimo, after showing himself
interested in the newspapers we rep
resented. gave to us the following
brief declaration:
"All goes well with us. The Ger
mans are badly shaken, but not yet
beaten, but well o: the road to de-
feat We certainly cannot lead them
back Immediately to the Rhine, but we
still offer determined resistance"
We have IL fine American army with
us which increases daily by the addi-
tion of 10000 men-300, 600 a month.
One anxiety of the Americans is to
make up for lost time. Their batting
powers are wonderful; the way they
go into the attack for which they
yearn is something magnificent mar
vellous, extraordinary. The French
army is the same as it always was. We
now have the full strength with the
help of which we will rid France of
the German invader.
More and More Munitions Needed.
We have an English army which
has more than made good its losses,
which daily gives us proof of its won
derful determination to fight to fin
ish. We want more and more tanks,
more and more airplanes, more and
more automobiles, vast quantities of
munitions, and we shall get them all.
We have been through trying, some-
times critical, moments, but we have
passed through them, and it will not
be so easy for Germans to recover af-
ter the hard events, they are about
to experience. We can have high hopes
for the future.
Then, with hearty handshake, the
marshal left us return to his maps and
notes. outside we learned a little
more of the generalissimo's life at
headquarters.
We had been taken in a military car
from Paris to the marshal's headquar-
ters in rustic chateau situated in the
midst of small wood. Driving past
the front of the house before we en-
tered the gates, the place looked as II
it were deserted. There was no sign
of life. we saw no soldiers until we
reached the gates.
Beyond this across the gardens tele-
phone wires were stretching from tree
to tree, hanging overhead and finally
disappearing through skylight to the
marshal's study and offices below. AS
we entered the house where we were
ushered into the marshaks orderly Of
fices, his study, once a library, came
into view. 1t contains many book
cases, while valuable paintings hang
on the walls.
We saw only two French officers
and nothing gave us the impression
that we were in the house where de-
cisons of the utmost importance as re-
CARDS the futrue conduct of the war
will be taken until suddenly the ring
ing of telephone bell brought us
back to reality. A few minutes later.
after passing through an office where
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