Bisbee daily review., 1918-07-25

success in the past few days, people again begin to talk of the war ending soon. l want to tel you that Germany has conquered the oil and wheat fields C. R-Lsla and Rumania and we can never starve her. She is planning right now 60 organize and use thd Russian manpOwer. And the only way 70 win this war is for America to place two million men in France by the fall of ihis year and two million more by the late spring of next year l. we dd this, and can supply them with sufiici- Cnt heavy artillery, ] believe we can win the war by the end of next year. It will take that long to do it right! And ] hope ] am dead if it is not dcne right (The cheers Of the crowd at this point rocked the streets.)
 "The Germans have done things in this war that must be lighted. They must be made to take their own medi- cine. (Again the crowd cheered 10 he echc) We tried for three years to keep away from this job, but they would not let us, and now we must finish it.
 Do you know that tho English alone l~ve lost in killed, badly wounded and prisoners over two million men, and tae Trench almost as many? To you know that the Italians last fall lost more supplies and booty and big guns and ammunition than were lost in any one campaign during the entire war? Do you know that the British, after winning their first brilliant drive at Cambrai last fall, lost 5000 men killed and wounded and 75,000 prisoners m the German counter stroke? They are grim and gloomy facts, and they have not been exploited very much in allied nations They were too bad to deal out all at once. But they are facts, and I think you ought to know them. I do not like 10 speak of them, and l am sure you do not like to hear them, but if you did not want to hear facts why did you ask me to talk to you?
 Major Douglas then went on at length to tell of the great work the Red Cross is doing in France. He and W. H. Brophy are in charge of a sec tion of stores, or rather warehouses, l three in Paris and twenty-two in the field stretching all the way to the bat i tIe front. They lost sour of these stores to the Boches during the first three big drives this year. In their department of Red Cross work they receive and disburse all bought goods, | which is to say all Red Cross supplies purchased by the organization, and not those given and made by Red Cross workers, such as comfort kits, band ages. garments, etc.
 He detailed the magnitude Of the work. dwelling especially upon t'e iid extended to the civilian population or France. the refugees and the families of the soldiers. "The work done by the Red Grass along these lines" said Major Douglas, cannot be estimated He declared further that the Red Cross is q very important factor in the win ming ol the war.
 He spoke of meeting Major John Grcenway a few weeks before ne sailed. They met in Paris on Sun dav and drove in an old one hoss shay out 10 a park, and there he said, "re sat on the grass and talked or Bisbee."
 Major Douglas said that Major Greenway was under shell fire while constructing trenches before Cantigny and of three men beside him two were wo, nded, but he escaped unhurt and stayed on the job until the trench was done
 Peverting again to the military side of the question, he declared that the Russians are getting uneasy and watching which way the cat will jump German propaganda and German lh- nuence are very strong in Russia right now" he went on, "and unless we act promptly and with all our force, fear we win have the Russians to fisht. But if we can get four mlllioa lighting men in France by the middle of next summer, I believe we will win the war by the last of next year. But if we delay and adopt halfway meas ures long enough to enable Germany i to organize R-ssian resources and men against us the war may go on for many years"
 Major Douglas paid a high tribute | to Gen. Leonard wood whom he met in Paris and who it was, he declared, sounded the first warning in Amerlca | that we must send a great army al once.
 Major Douglas ship narrowly escap- | ed a submarine on the return voyage the torpedo missing the bow by only | seventy-fiye feet.
 l All through his talk was most inter esting. vital end grippins. He told m lhis own forceiul way the thinss he had seen and the impressions he had form 1 ed and the messages he had heard i first hand from ctiers in France Net 1 a person in the great crowd lett unuii
 he had done. and then he was given 1 anotner ovation as enthusiastic as the
 one accorded him when he appeared uncn the platform to speak.
 Major Douglas was accompanied 70 Bishee by Mrs Douglas, samuel f. 1 Arp'ewhite. his secretary, and C. 0. 1 FlIi-, cashier of the Bank of Do-sias' He did not return to Douglas rom ITere. taking the train for Jerome TOT a hrief inspection of the properties O. Ire United Verde Extension mire' or
 which he Is president.
 He ulans Co return 70 france a' soon as business cf importance now oe- Iayinv his return, can bc adjusted.
 After tbc sncaking. he held an ih-
 formal reception on the P. n. store ! r.or.r ,vhou many friends went up TO