The Sentinel=record., 1918-08-16
WAR TO BE MADE AS
 SHORT AS POSSIBLE
Men in the New Draft Will Be Need. ed By October 1 As it Is Believed All the Present Men in Class One Will Be Call to the coIors By That Time.

Washington, Aug. 15.-lFour million American soldiers can defeat tho Ger
 man army. in the belief of General
 March, chief of staff, and present plans of the war department call for more than that number under arms next summer with some 3.200.13o of them, or eighty divisions. in France by June 90.
 These, and other important fas concerning the nations effort in the war as given to the senate military committee by General March. 5ecru tary Baker and Provost Marshal Cen eral Growder. were revealed today 5y Chairman Chamberlain in presenting to the senate the administration man power bill extending the dralt ages to include all men between tine ages of IS and 45 years.
 President Wilson is determined .o bring the war to a conclusion by con- centrating all forces on the western front. including Italy, Secretary Baker told the committee and General March supplemented this by stating that 1t was the purpose to end the great world struggle quickly and decisiyeiy
 For the nation not to put forth it's maximum at once, the chief Of staff declared, would be but playing Ger many's game"
 Thirty-one American divisions, or approximately 1,300,000 men now are in France. with as many more in camps in this country as a reservoir, Secretary Baker said that the accel- erated program of troop movements over seas which has enabled General
 Pershing to organize his first field army of some 1,250,000 men will be
 continued because of the generous ac-
 ton of the British government ill sup tplying shipping.
 1 To carry out the present program of eighty divisions overseas by Juno
 SC nearly two million men mus, ae
 sent to France in the next eleven
 months. MT. Baker would not be
 drawn into any discussion of the lcountry's ability to transport men bur lit is known that many more than that number could be landed in the w.r
 zone at the present rate of shipmen's. l General March told the commi.te-. laccording to the report to the senate | that he was in favor of young men i for the army and that the youths oi I1S years registered under the ne z draft law. would be in France by Jans 30. He estimated that some 2.5}o'9eO men qualified for full military service would be Aecured from the new regis trarts and he outlined the calls for the next year or more as follows: gust 250.OO0; September 20o.eaQ; {; notohar 156.000: November l5o.Q9Qi December 150,oCa: January looeco: February 100000 anss 100000 monthl, thereafter until the end of next year
 These calls would aggrt ~ate a'-9o', coo against the estimate of <' fs,Vv' to be had from the new regis. "a ion but no explanation was made of A,' and other discrepancies in the dra. figures. General Crowder has said that the present class one will De A hausted by next October but Secre- |tary Baker made 1t plain today that the reservoir of men now in camps in this country is sufficient to keen up the present troop movement overseas.
 Plans for considering the man-pow- CT bill in the senate next Monday were blocked today because quorum was (CONTINUED ON PAGE TVO |