New Britain herald., 1918-08-15
AMERICAN ARMY OF 4,O0O,O0O GAN SMASl 7 ENEMY DEFENSE WHENEVER THEY PLEal
 ADVANCE ON BERLIN, IN GEN. MARCH
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 committee 1t wa 1 France to win
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 go through the GS. The report also
 calls for 80 divisions, by June 30 next year,
 then.
 All men called for
 draft ages-18 to 45-d i be i'll France by next Juffa
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 that the presidents policy
 forces on the western front,
 ot the fighting in the future
 win on the western front
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 States may throw it's full stI i If the draft ages are fl
 said the system of voluntee1
 automatically disappears. No Reorganization of Industr In his report Chairman Chamb quoted extensively from testimon fore the committee by Secretary ker, General March and Provost M{ shal General Crowder. "The United States government" ," 1, General March is quoted as saying, "has been asked by her allies to em- bark upon program so large that it was necessary very carefully to ascer- tain whether we could go through with it or not, and one of the features of this enlarged program was providing men. The desire of the administra- ton is to establish limits, both a maxi mum and minimum, which will ac- complish this program and at the same time disorganize the industries of the country as little as possible.
 '"Ehe policy of the war department is to put the maximum mum Der of men in France with the idea of shortening the war. We found from figures fur nished by the provost marshal general
 
 80 divisions in France by June 30, 1919 with IS divisions at home. These divisions consist of roughly 10000 men to a division. After prolonged study of the available man power of the United States, the provost marshal general showed that it was necessary to drop to IS years of age and go to 45 in order to get the men to carry it through. All the men obtained un- der the proposed change in the draft law-approximate1y 0O,00O-we ex- pect to have in France by June 30, 1919."
 March Fayors Young Men.
 General March told the committee that he was unqualiiedly in favor of having the army composed of as many young men as possible. Young men between IS and 20, he said, not only do not have many encumbrances but they are better fit physically.
 The president" said General March, resuming his statement, "has finally announced that the American military policy from this time on is centered on the western front and we have declined to be diverted from that one thing. The war department has now adopted this as a. policy and it is the policy of the United States that the military program is to be centered in France.
 The purpose of America is to fur nish enough. man power to whip the Germans from now on. The only way that Germany can be whipped is by America going into this thing with her whole strength"
 Then America has got to put enough men over there to whip Ger many?" asked Senator Kirby
 "That is it in a nutshell" Gen. March replied
 Up to Us to Win War.
 Tt is up to us to win the war and we can win it. How long it will take will depend exactly upon what we do If we drag along with this thing and put d small force over there we will be playing Germany's game. It is my belief that With an American army of 1000, 900 men in France under one commander in chief we can go through the German line wherever we please
 "This law" the general added, twill let us lean on Class 1 until Tune 30 of next year. We reached the conclusion that the enlarged program was necessary on July 30." Secretary Baker explained the steps 1 that led up to the change in the mill itary program. After the recess of congress" the 1 secretary said, the study of the sit ]