The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-02-08
GUNS FOR
$4,000 TROOPS
France Will Be Able to Man.
ufacture Enough
Artillery
FOR THIS NUMBER
OF AMERICANS
More Troops in France Than
u. S. Had in Army at
Entry into War

New York. Feb. s,--Announeemen
that France will be able before July ! Il
manufacture artillery to supply p
American divisions, or Appropriated,
100000 troops, if the United State.
meanwhile adheres to an understanding
by which France would receive the nee
essary raw material from America, was
made here Wednesday night by Andre
Tardieu, French high commissioner to
this country. NJ Tardieu stated also
that there are in France to-day notably
more American troops than comprised
the American army when the United
States entered the war; at that time, he
said, the American army contained about
$4,000 officers and men.
The French official spoke at a dinner
which was part of New York's ceiebra'
ton of the Jour de lAlliance Franchise,
which was observed throughout the Unit
ed States and Canada Wednesday, the
anniversary of the treaty between France
and the American colonies in ITS. jules
j. Jusserand the French ambassador,
also was a guest of honor. M. Tardieu
said that Just appreciation of the re-
suits achieved by America in its war
preparations lis stimulant for effort
and nobody has the right to refuse to the
American people this stimulant."
I'VE have in the line" he said, about
$4,000 guns of every calibre, and every
day more than 100000 shells are turned
out by our factories. Without speaking
OF what we manufacture for you, and
yLat II I,,,.. IL I,
we having during the last three years
given to our allies in Europe 100000
rifles $4,000 automatic rifles, 10000 ma
chine guns, S0000000 cartridges. $500
guns and 1850 airplanes. The adoption
without any modification of our various
types of guns would certainly have saved
some time to the benefit of American
production, and some delays may be the
consequence of the improvements you
are looking for, always, and rightly at
that, aiming at better results"
Mr.. Tardieu described Americas mill.
tary efforts as wonderful and splendid.
and asserted it had been "a surprise to
the enemy" Abiding TO raising the ma
tonaI army, Mr.. Tardieu declared that
mo event of wider import has ever tax
en- place since. the beginning of the war
France, he said, has, taken every neces-
sary measure" so that America can com
pletc in France the training begun here |
American aviation development had been
beyond all expectation" he declared |
He outlined how America had helped the
entente also financially and with ship
ping, food and fuel-aid which he de-
scribed as Immense and conclusive"
i have the optimism of the satisfied, s.
Mr.. Tardicu said, "and as long as | shall |
be here as the representative of my coun-
try ! will ask from you every day still |
greater effort After 43 months of war |
our needs are huge indeed, and in order
to supply them enormous sacrifices are
required of you"
The speaker recalled that America, in
order to equip its army with guns and
airplanes, called upon the allies for its
needs.
Some people, in Europe as well as
here" he said, have been wondering why
You should not, in that respect, have
done everything by yourselves This
shows that those people ignore,
firstly, what time means in war, and.
secondly, how infinitely complicated is
the industrial war organization, which
from the very start is required by the ex-
tensive production of ordnance and avia-
ton"