Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-06-18
THREE MILLION FOR
US. ARMY BY AUGUST.
PROMISES CROWDER
Provost Marshal General Says
Class Two Must Be Called
Soon Unless Service Age
Limits Are Changed


WASHINGTON. June 15.-'Three mill
lion Americans under arms. by the first
Of August and 500, 900 already sent over
seas-these figures were announced Off
ciaIly today.
The first figure came from Provost
Marshal General Crowder. talking be-
fore the senate military committee; the
second from Chief of Stan March, talk
ing in his first weekly war review ses-
sion with war department correspond
ents.
General Crowder predicted class two
will have to be invaded unless the age
Is raised to include available men for
class one. General March promised
that the great flow of troops so success
fully undertaken will continue as at
present-limited only by capacity of
ships TO carry them.
These two proud figures, answering
boldly the scornful disparagement of
American effort by the Boche authori-
ties, was backed by still another signid-
cant hgure-1, O00,00 men sent over
seas by July ], according to war coun-
ell information given the senate mill
tary committee.
Today was day of good tidings
Standing before a pin-pricked map
Of the western line in which were five
tiny American flags marking United
States positions, General March made
this statement:
We have now passed the 100000
mark in troops shipped overseas. 1t
is impossible to predict a day-say a
month ahead or any other definite time
when a mastering superiority will be
- . N,saw, s4g- .E 81,
Der OF troops we are sending across
now is limited only by the capacity CT
the ships to carry them, and we intend
TO keep that up"
Explains Battle
There was a touch of pride in the
statement OF the chief, who came back
here only a few months ago with the
announcement that more men had to be
sent across Immediately and then pro-
ceeded to stir everybody up while he him
SELF hurried about to get the ships
whercwith to do this task.
General March said nothing to the
newspapermen concerning what these
great forces are accomplishing spe eff
cally. But the senators learned from
the war council that the brigading with
the allies is being accomplished rapidly
and that many Americans are now be-
United States units
General March pictured on the map
the bulges Germany had made in the
line as il stood March 81, and explained
;nat this stretched line was Sc miles
greater than before. Such an extern
sion, backed by the strength of Ge.-
nany's pressure, had made ii impera
tive. he said, TO throw in reinforce
ments. And. America had done this
-
tributiOn. The need OF American troops
he added, was pre- eminent" in the
light of the four huge smashes since
March 81.
All OF them. though. have been stop
ped" he fatty stated. The latest drive
ne considered to be a straightening-ou
process to remove a dangerous re-eE-
irant menacing the Marine German
flanks. Paris, for the time being. Is
the goal FOR the German arrow, but Gen
Eral March said the obvious detectives
were the channel ports and Paris. He
would not predict that just vet the Teu-
ton blow would turn toward the major
pbjectiyc-thc ports.
Ports More Important
The activities of the Germans are
now toward Paris" he said, but as %
the Importance of the detectives from
a military standpoint, the capture Of
the channel ports would have more
Immediate effect upon the prosecution
Of the war than movement on Paris"
Aside from the news given by Ger
eral March as 10 the success Of troop
shipments, senators were told that the
American shipments are now suffi-
cient TO OVerbalance the wastage in the
allied lines caused by the German a.
saults. Arrival of the Americans -
fill up the gaps and strengthen the
bends in the line has had much to do
with tbs breakdown of all the drives
to date, the senators learned
The chief perplexity of the allied and
American chieftains 'at this time, tho
war council said, was that of gas at
tacks. The gas had been used so eN-
tensively that it drove the allies back;
tear gas was tried effectively to mar
the work of the artillerymen.
The Russian embassy announced to-
day that some Russians are now par
ticipating in the western battles.