Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-06-11
OVER 100000 ]. S. :
TROOPS OVERSEAS
SECRETARY BAKER ANNOUNCES
!, INCREASE IN NUMBER OF MEN
IN FRANCE.
"BLuE DEVILS" TOLD OF
MOVEMENT TO THEIR AID
Official Reception Arranged for French
Soldiers Touring America-Two Hun.
bred Thousand Men Added to Yanke
Forces Within Month-Growth Of
American Army Rapid.

Washington, June 11.-More thar
! 700, 900 Americans have been sent over
seas to join the allied forces and to Sc.
! uS G civilization which will rest or
moral foundations, Secretary OF Wal
Baker told the famous Blue Devils
on the eve of their departure fol
| France.
The secretary's statement was the
| first official announcement of the
! strength Of the American force In
France. 1t means that 100000 mel
| have been added within month to
the 100000 Americans who, according
to the secretary's announcement early
in May, had been transported safely
overseas.
In this great movement Of troops to
France only POI soldiers have been lost
at sea, thru the sinking of the trans
ports Tuscania and Moldavia.
Growth Of Army Rapid.
The secretary Of war addressed the
Blue Devils at the official reception ar
ranged for them on their return from
their tour Of the United States in be-
half of the liberty loan and Red Cross
drives.
Standing in the shadow Of the
Washington monument, Mr.. Baker
paid his tribute to the soldiers OF
France and assured them that tbs
small beginning of our army which
you lett there has GROWN into might
manifestation.
When you left France, the secre-
tary said. the American army was
there in small representation. but now
more than 100000 Americans have
sailed from this shore to carry back to
your army and your people, the en-
couragement and the assistance which
Lafayette and Rochambeau brought to
America in the early and struggling
days Of American freedom.
Fight in Common Cause.
"They are there learning from you,
enulating the virtues which you ex-
empllfy. learning the art Of war as you
have learned 1t, in the hard school Of
strenuous experience.
They are united with you, some
times being added in your divisions.
sometimes fitted into your army corps
by divisions OF American troops. but
all of you fighting for common cause,
fighting with an indiscriminate reck-
lessness Of the value Of human life as
compared with the more eternal value
OF human. liberty and they and you are
about to accomplish the great wonder
in the world OF winning victory
which will forever set the stamp OF
mankinds approval upon the true the
DRY Of civilization.
Moral Force Will Rule.
Instead Of believing In mere physi-
cal force, hereafter, we are going to
believe in the strength Of moral force:
instead Of divorcing the things Of q
material character from their moral
intent and purpose, we are collecting
now for the children Of men every
where civilization which will rest on
moral foundations.
I'VE are establishing for the world
the rule Of righteousness, and when
our army. cooperating with your army
and those Of our other associates, shall
have established and set up these
great things in the world. they wiz
leave your shores and return home full
Of admiration for the splendid cour-
age of the soldiers Of your army and
with minds filled with realization OF
the value Of community Of feeling and
cooperation among free people every:
where. both to make and keep the
world free and safe.