Bisbee daily review., 1919-07-20

ing sent back to the United States and has been withdrawn from the Rhine
 But American troops will be kept on the Rhine as long as the American flag flies over the sector assigned the Amer ican army. and our flag will be there until Germany complies with the mili- tary terms of the peace treaty and proves its intention to fulfill the other require ments. A small force of about 5000 men will be kept on the Rhine till the occupa- tionary period is ended.
 ''The American forces in Germany" as the new organization Is known is now under the command of Maj. Gen. H. T. Allen. and is composed of regiment of infantry, a regiment of artillery and quartermaster troops. an aviation squa- dron and a machine gun battalion mak- ing a complete small unit representing the United States all made up of men recently recruited from the States for that purpose.
 General Pershing will probably return to the United States next month and if as intended by President Wilson will be designated as chief of staff of the army. General March as chief of staff is the ranking officer in the army and accord ing to reports from Washington he will be placed in command of the Expedition ary Forces so that General Pershing will then become. as chief of staff. the rank ing officer in the army.
 Aviation Section A. E. F.
 In mentioning the work of the aviation section of the Signal Corps in the A. E. F. will first quote few lines from the report of General Pershing to the secre- tary of war in which he says. Our entry into the war found us with few of the auxiliaries necessary for its conduct fin the modern sense. Among our most inn portant deficiencies in material were av- iation and tanks. In order to meet our requirements as rapidly as possible. we accepted the offer of The French govern ment to provide us with the necessary aviation supplies. We obtained from the French the necessary planes for training our personnel and they have provided us with total of 2676 pursuits. observa- ton and bombing planes The first air plane received from home arrived in May. 1918. and altogether we have received 1879 planes. The first American squadron completely equipped by American produc- ton. including airplanes. crossed the German lines on August 2. 1918.
 General PershIno's Opinion.
 "Our aviators have no equals in daring or in fighting ability. and have left rec ord of courageous deeds that will ever remain a brilliant page in the annals of our army"
 While I was in France there were re- ports occasionally to the effect that some kind Of an investigation was in progress to determine if ar American 'airplanes were ever delivere6in France so to those who still doubt in the matter the above official report of General Pershing will settle the matter for all time.
 From this report we see. though. that the majority of the afrplanes doing serv- ice in the air service were French planes. some 2676 French planes as against 1879 American planes and after talking with q number of aviators who saw consider able service on the front there is great question in their minds as to the effici- ency of the American planes as compared to the French planes.
 fEvery aviator talked with considered the French planes far superior for com sbat work to the American Liberty plane. The Liberty plane Is, without doubt, nose