Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-26

They were very polite. but you sensed
difference in their attitude.
Cabled to House
About the first of October one OF
the British, together with one OF tne
French Government, cabied to Col
onel House urging him to come over
for the purpose of securing better
coordination. They felt that they
were losing time by trying to CO.
ordinate over here rather than on
| the scene of the problem.
7 Senator Hitchcock wanted to know
If Mr.. Mccormick thought that we
would have to make more artillery
on this side rather than depend on
the French or the British.
Mr.. Mccormick replied: The
| French cannot do it. If your rool
leaks in France you cannot mend IT.
If your window is broken, you can
not have it glazed. Every man VINO
| is in France is needed to be making
-! guns for France or to be on the line.
We have to ship the steel to them.
Senator Hitchcock said that Gen
eral Crozier had testified that there
were some advantages in shipping
the raw material. because when II
was lost there was no labor lost
France had the equipment and the
| factories and was able to go and
supply the armies.
Petain VS.. CroZier
IF the committee thinks his
opinion is worth more than that oil
General Petain, why-"replied MT
Mccormick, when he was cut OFT Dy
| Senator Hitchcock, who asked: dc
you think the French factories can
supply these heavy guns or the ligh'
ones faster than we can?"
II can only say" was McCor-
micks answer, land quote the man
who won the battles, that it is inn
| possible to have too many guns
| Palpably we should not put on
France, which is denuded of man.
power, any burden which we can as
sumo ourselves. 1t is true that the
labor may be lost, but how much
rarer and how much more valuable
is the labor in France than 1t is
here?"
General Crozier thinks it would
take a great while to equip the
arm ories for the making of artillery
and that we could get II so much
| quicker over there" said Senator
! Hitchcock.
IT do not mean to say that they
could not produce the maximum OF
their output. but here is America
producing more steel than all
Europe" continued the witness. I'VE
must have 25, 900 more cannon and II
is impossible for the Allies to make
| them.
Advises Munitions Director
I'VE should have munitions di-
rector. Here was Kitchener, who
certainly was as big a man as Baker.
/ do not wish to make any deroga-
| tory remarks regarding Mr.. Baker.
The job was too big for Kitchener.
They took the biggest man in the
Lloyd George.
! I'm France they took Loucheur.
They made him the head of NUM-
tons. They first made him the nom
! inal assistant to Thomas. When
Thomas went out Loucheur took his
place. He is the head of 1t now. He
! Is one man of whom all Frenchmen
spoke to me in Paris. He is a steady,
driving, rather silent Frenchman.
The job is bigger than the biggest
man we have in America. Yet, un-
der our system, every labor dispute
must be determined py the Secretary
of War.
81 would rather not mention any
names, but the most important
| American officers said, If Sharpe
| anu CTOHleT uO uOl 80 we w hOl
know what may happen
Senator Wadsworth interrupted to
say, II have had that from three
major generals"
!. Men Who Bear Burdens
Yes" Mr.. Mccormick went on,
the men on whom our burden rests
said that to me-"
Have they any way of reaching
the Administrations" the Nebraska
Senator asked.
Mr.. McCormick-"I do not know.
When General Biddle was recently
appointed, American officers were all
broken up about it. AS an engineer
he was we'll thought of; they all
| liked him; but when ne was to be
made the probable successor to the
them all vince
! Senator New, of Indiana, asked:
Whom do they have confidence in
over here? Do they express them
selves on that?"
They talked of General March, /
think. Some of these names are un-
familiar to me. They spoke of Gen
eral Morrison and General Wood.
Those were the three names.
Naturally 1 would rather not
mention their names, but as you sat
with a group of men who are carry
ing the load these are the three men
who were mentioned as representing
the best military intelligence we
have"
LAS our army arrives in France,
does it appear to be equipped and
we'll organized?" was asked by Sem
ator Hitchcock
Troops Outshoot Instructors
II heard of only one regiment
which was said to have arrived short
of overcoats. The men | have met
seemed to be equipped very we'll.
They were in splendid physical con-
dition. In the course of six weeks
they were outshooting their French
instructors. If the generals are as
good as the line we shall have reason
to be proud. The infantry is splen-
did"
Asked by Senator Hitchcock if the
French aviation service was begin
ming to fail, Mr.. Mccormick replied:
They are short of officers of all
sorts"
Mr.. Mccormick said he asked two
questions wherever he went on the
line. These questions, asked of gen.
eral officers, were: What must we
in America do to end this war as
soon as we can with the least pos
| sible loss of life? and, second, what
must be done to break the line?"
The answer to both questions was
the same-add enormously to the
amount of artillery, and especially
to the middle heavies.
"Petain's chief of staff he con-
tinued, went to some pains to ex-
'lain how heavily our artillery must
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