Evening star., 1918-08-26
VICTORY IN SIGHT
BY END OF 1878
What Senator Lewis Believes
Premier Clemenceau
Meant to Convey.
MARVELLOUS WORK BY U. S.
BY EDWARD PRICE BELL.
CnbIcsram to The Evening Star and
Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1918.

CnbIcgram to The Evening Star and
Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1918.
LONDON, August d &c. - Senator
James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois has
arrived in London on the British end
of an American government mission,
which has to do with the prompt de-
livery of supplies shipped to Europe
for the United States Army and Navy.
He completed his preliminary investi-
cations in France, but he will return
there before going home in Septem-
Der.
L found the senator taking Sun
day rest cure in his bed in the Savoy
Hotel, mainly for the purpose of COM
batting a slight attack of neuralgia.
which overlook him on the battlefield
between the Somme and the Disc
couple of weeks ago.
With Old Regiment at Front.
81 was with my old Illinois regi-
ment which was fighting with the
British in the recent operations be-
fore Amiens," said the senator. the
alkali dust in which the whole OF
the surrounding country side seemed
nose and struck me at what has long
been a susceptible point. 1t was an
indescribable satisfaction to be near
the thick of things with the Illinois
troops
two regiments whose identity and
the commanders of which are well
known in Chicago had acquitted
themselves brilliantly as the folks at
home already know. l can only add
that they have shed new luster on
the state from which they come. They
have only ono fault-a fault common
to the whole American Army in
France-an uncomfortable eagerness
to get at the foe. Wherever destiny
leads them Illinois may be sure that
they will give the right kind OF an
account of themselves"
l called the senator's attention to
the explanation which Premier
Clemenceau thought it necessary to
make of his statements to Mr.. Lewis
about the end of the war.
II am sorry" said the senator, that
there should be any misunderstanding
about this. for there is no occasion for
any. What 1 understood to be clearly
in NJ. Clemenceau's mind, and certain
ly all that intended to intimate that
he said, was that with the rate OF
progress the allies are now making,
and especially the rate at which the
American effort is being put forth, he
felt that at the end of another year
NOT at the emu -OI tIllS ycdE-SlClQES
would be plainly in sight or. in other
words, that the allies would be On the
home stretch. That was all. I feel
that this is a sound and legitimate
view, and one that does not sound un-
duly on the side of optimism"
Referring 10 the business that brought
him to the war zone, Senator Lewis
said: Il was sent on this particular
mission because it so happens that /
represented the Senate at the interna-
tional safety at sea" conference in Eu-
rope shortly before the war began. OBJ
jections raised by me on behalf Of the
United States at the conference con-
cerned the question of local Jurisdiction
over port facilities as distinguished from
national regulation of them.
Nov that chicken, SO to speak, has
come home to roost, for in certain ports
where we have been landing enormous
quantities of war stores of all sorts con-
gestion has taken place purely because
this or that port was running its own
affairs instead of subjecting them to ma
tional supervision. The main reason for
the congestion. however, I found to be
the fact that we had accomplished such
a marvel in oceanic transport that we
were piling up stun faster there than
men or cars could move it