New-York tribune., 1918-05-26
America to Haze
100000 Troops II,
France This Year

PARIS, Friday, May 24.-The Ameri-
can forces in France by midsummer
will be double the number Secretary
of War Baker recently announced as
having been sent here and by the end
of 1918 they will be three times as
large, said andre Tardieu, French High
Commissioner, in statement issued
to the French people on his arrival
from the United States to-day
Secretary Baker announced on
May 8 that more than 100000 Amer-
can soldiers already had been sent
to France.
"The German offensive is broken"
said M. Tardeu. "Thc Americans,
after our victorious resistance, will
cisive action. The figures given by
Secretary Baker three weeks ago on
the number of Anne erican troops in
Europe will be doubled before mid-sum-
mer. The number of American troops
will be three times as large before the
end of 1913. We now are transporting
in one month what would have taken
five months at the beginning of the
war.
"The capacity of troop transports
from America to France is notably
larger than the means for the trans
port of German troops from the Rus
sian to the French front in the most
favorable circumstances.
"The immediate use of American
fighting elements as soon as they land
was settled by the recent agreement
On brigading. This anwers the urgent
necessity of the present and through
progressive training prepares for the
constitution of large units of the
American army under the command of
General Pcrshing.
those are the capital results of the
last two months. Add to them the
unity of command and you will be able
to judge clearly the manner in which
the United States understood the last
battle. These measures assure for
the Allied armies for the final period
OF the war superiority in numbers
and the possibility of unlimited re-
plenishment"
M. Tardieu explains how America by
voluntary restrictions raised the sup
ply OF grain for export from 100000
tons available in January to 3,12O,OOO
tons, so that the Allies are enabled to
await the new crop.
I'm a few weeks from now 100000
rifles and $4,000 quicktirers and ma
chine guns of all kinds will be manu-
factured monthly" he continued. "Th.
Liberty motors, the first order for
which was for $4,000, went through the
delivered at the rate of more than 1000
a month now, and all will be delivered
before the end of six months"
M. Tardleu goes fully into the ship
building situation and rccites at length
what America has done, especially for
france, during twelve months. Among
other things, he says, she has fur
nlshed sufficient grain to feed 11,OOO.-
oOO persons and steel sufficient to man
ufacture 100,000,000 thrce-inch shells.
He continues:
I'm the midst of battle on March %
the French government cabled me its
Immediate need of 10000 tons of food
products ready for consumption.
Thanks to American and British aid, I
was able to cable that 35 900 tons would
be shipped before April IL.
"All our needs in war material are
covered until the end of 1918, and even
longer"
In the purchase of war material. M.
Tardieu says, the economies effected
from November to May totalled at least
$45,o0000o This was obtained by the
cooperation of Federal authorities and
by the extension of direct negotiations
and the suppression of inferno diaries.
What figures cannot express" he
concludes, sis the wonderful spirit in
which sentiments of right draw to our
aid this country of 100,0O0,00O inhab-
itants What figures will not show is
the deep and sincere feeling of this
great democracy toward the French
democracy. When I came back to
France last November l said, 4 have
entire confidence
"To-day have only to show the re-
suits obtained"