Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-25
OFFICERS AT MEADE
PREDICT FOCH VICTORY
Believe He Will Take 100000
Prisoners-Selects Filling
Up Camp

officers and men Of the National Army
here. who have been watching closely
the developments on tho western front in
! France see the beginning Of the end of
the war In the strategy Of FoCh. partic-
ularly since the Crown Prince seems de-
termined to 'fight IT out" rather than re-
treat from the pocket in which the AL
| lies are gripping his army. Soldiers are
| not allowed to discuss these things for
publication, but in their personal chats
they are very optimistic. In fact. they
go so far as to express the fear that 1t
will he over "over there" before they get
n chance to get into 1t.
Some Of these officers are soldiers Of
the old school and have been students
Of strategy for years. They say that if
the enemy withdraws the effect at home
will be such as to cause discomfort and
fear and possibly even threaten a col
| lapse OF the elements supporting the
armies Thus they say there is no al
Tentative open to the Crown Prince but
! to fight il out. and they do not see how
Foch can do anything but win. They
believe that he will eventually close the
pocket and capture not less than 100000
men.
Many Recruits Arriving
The big, wooden city Is filing rapidly
with the quotas from several States and
! the scenes here today are very similar to-
those Of ten months ago. when the first
National Army stepped from all walks
Of civil life in Pennsylvania and Mary
land and came here to learn how to fight.
, In short. they are ununiformcd and un-
| disciplined. But they are eager and
anxious to learn. and in a few months
the eleventh division will be as pro.
| ficient as the seventy-ninth which has
taken its place behind the lines 'over
there" More than 5000 men arrived
here yesterday: several thousand will
come today. and the movement will con-
tinue until the end of this month. when
the population OF the big wooden city
will number approximately 10000.
| Twenty-Five men Of the l54th Depot
Brigade have been transferred from the
training battalions here to the ordnaace
corps, and have been sent to Camp Han
cock. Augusta. Ga. The lads left here
in charge Of Corporal Clarence p, Meyer
Of the Eleventh Battalion. Corporal
| Meyer will return to this camp. The men
transferred were John T. Grindall. Henry
NJ, Taylor. John F. Dornick, Carl r.
Hall, Louis B. Simpson. Patrick F.. Tobin.
! Robert u. Gould, Sylvester +. Mcmahon,
Philip MacLure. Patrick ]. Ntzhugh,
Ernest Fl. Otto, John ?. McHugh Clar-
ence p. Macpherson, John r, Joyce,
Henry NJ. Barber, William B. Gange. Ro-
sario Larue. William J. McKitchen.
James Fl. McAloon and Edward Scangie.
! Private Pablo Perez, Twenty-sixth
Company. 154th Depot Brigade, Porto
Rican, has been transferred to the Porto
Rican detachment, National Army. and
sent to point Of embarkation for trans
portation to Las Casas, Porto Rico. for
assignment to duty:
Private William J. Burrows. of head
quarters detachment Of the l54th Depot
Brigade, has been promoted to the rank
or reglmental sergeant major and as.
signed to duty at camp headquarters,
First Lieutenant Louis Segel. of the
medical reserve corps. who was trans
ferred here from Camp Dodge. Iowa.
for duty with the Twenty-seventh Engi-
neers. arrived too late to join the com.
nand, which has departed. and has been
sent to Washington for duty at Camp
American University
First Lieutenant George p. Marie, of
the signal reserve corps, has been APP
pointed camp signal officer according to
an order issued this morning by Brigade
General Joseph A. Jaston.
The following men of the depot bri-
gade have been transferred to the med
ical department and assigned to the sani-
tary detachment Of the 304th Auxiliary
| Remount Depot: John J. Delaney, Au-
| gust c. Kelly. Gailord Z. Putnam, Louis
V. Connoll. Henry A. Jockel and Ro-
| dolpho J. Frigault