Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-29
AMERICA WILL HAVE
 HALF A MILLION
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 people if you send over some of your troops"
 'We did send some troops
 Why Whole Army Was Not Sent.
 At that place we had a choice. We could have sent over, as Great Britain our regular army, and in very short preparation have put it into action and suffered exactly what Great Britain suffered with her 'contemptible little army as it was called by their ad- versaries. Our army would have .giv- en as good an account of itself as the British army did. but it would have been destroyed like the British army, and there would have been no nucleus on which to build this new army that was to come over a little later, and it was deemed wiser to send over a reg ular division, but not to send over our whole regular army at that time, How France Welcomed Our Troops. ''Then what happened was that that regular division went over and the people of France kissed the hems of their garments as they marched up the. streets of Paris: the old veterans, wounded in this war, legless and arm less, stumbling along on crutches. per haps, as they went up the streets of Paris with their arms around the neck of American soldiers. Not a single man in that division was unaccom- panied by veteran. America had gone to France, and the French people rose with sense of gratitude and hope fitness that had never been in them before
 "Of course they welcomed the Brit Ish, but their need was not so great OTI7n %hn t;e1, Nf iJl.- welcomed the British, but there were ties between them and us which had not been between them and the British and 50 when our troops went there was an instant and spontaneous rise in the morale of the French, but an equally instant and spontaneous iftsistence that these soldiers who came from l America should continue to come in l an unbroken stream. Decided to Send N. G. Divisions. | And so we made the selection. We | decided not to send the regular army | as whole, but to send regular divi- 1 sions and national guard divisions, se- l lected according to the state of their l preparation and keep back here some l part of our trained force in order that it might inoculate with it's spirit and it's training these raw leyies which we | were training, and one after another these divisions have gone over until in France there is fighting army, an army trained in the essentials and in 1 the beginnings of military discipline and practice. and trained, seasoned | fighters in this kind of a war on the actual battlefields where it is taking place.
 Allies Asked For Artisans.
 Early in this war when Joffre was here and when Balfour was here, they said to us. It may take you some time to get over to us fighting army, but you are a great industrial country our man power is fully engaged in our industries and in our military enter prises, send over artisans, special en- gineering regiments, and troops of a
 technical character and although it
 was not known here at the outset, and only phrase in the emergency mili-
 tary legislation shows the thing was
 thought of as possibility, yet in a
 very short time we had organized en- gineering regiments of railroad men and sent them over there and were re-
 building behind the lines of the Brit ish and French the railroads which were being carried forward with their advance, reconstructing their broken engines and cars, building ew-rail- I roads, both back of the French and British lines, and those regiments were of such quality that at the Cam brai assault, carried on by. General
 Byng, when. the Germans made their counter-attack, our engineer regiments threw down their picks and spades and
 carried their rifles into the battle and distinguished themselves by gallant
 action in the war itself. N,reae .od noe&ane
 ''Very early in this war Great
 Britain, through Balfour and his as-
 sistants, and France, through Joffre
 said to us, Send us nurses and, doc tors Why before we were scarcely 1T the war American units organized ir . advance in anticipation by the Ret , Cross, which was taken over into tht 3 service of the United States through the surgeon generals office, were o, the battlefield, and there are tens o 2 thousands of men in England and ii 2 France now who bless the mission o
 mercy upon which the first American l appeared in France x, . Our Surgeons Have Set Up Hospitals Our surgeons have set up hospi