Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-01-18
GERMANY BEATEN
BUT REsOU RCES
ARE STILL LARGE
Marshal Points Out Great Diff
ficu|ties Overcome and Says
Price Must Be Conn1ensu-
rate With Cost.


Treves, Jan. 5 "wednesday, by the
Associated Press 1T is the convic-
ton of Marshal Foch that the Rhine
must be made the barrier between
Germany and France. He expressed
this clearly today when he received
American newspaper correspondents.
The marshal is here in connection
with the meeting concerning the eX-
tension Of the German armistice.
Marshal Foch pointed out the diff
ficulties that had been overcome and
said that peace must be commensurate
with the price of victory Germany
now was beaten, he added but with
her resources. especially in men, re-
cuperatlon in comprehensively
short time was quite possible. 1t was
the duty OF the allies to prevent fur
ther aggressions.
Marshal Focl praised the work or
the American troops and said that
General pershing had asked that the
American forces be concentrated for
az attaut sS3rt et4e3 81 6t0f. wye Ell !.
generalssinIo admitted that the Ar
goniie- Meuse front, where the Amer
leans began their offensive on Sep
tember 26, was a .sector hard to
tackle" The marshal said he had told
General Pershing:
Have Devils Punch.
"Your men have the devils punch.
They will get away with all that. Go
to it,"
The American attack succeeded, the
marshal continued, "and here we are
on the Rhine
The armistice was not concluded
too soon and the allies got all they
asked for from Germany without con-
tinuing the fighting. The allies, the
marshal said. We're prepared for an
other offensive stroke which would
have forced the Germans to give up.
This was to have been made in Lor-
raine on November IA with six Amer
ican and twenty French divisions,
This is, for me-" Marshal Foch be-
gan, "a happy opportunity to tell you
all the good things ] think of the
American army and of the part It
played ON our side. Your soldiers
were superb, They came to us young,
enthusiastic and carried forward by a
vigorous ideal and they marched to
battle with admirable gallantry.
Yes, they were superb. There is
no other word. When they appeared
our armies were, as you know, ia
tigued by three years of relentless
struggle and the MANTLE of war laid
heavily upon them. We are maGni-
ficently comforted by the virility or
your Americans,
Brought Renewed Hope.
'.The youth of the United States
ont Of
hastened victory Not only was this
moral fact of the highest import
ance but YOU also brought enormous
material aid and the wealth which
you placed at our disposal contributed
to the final success. Nobody among
us will ever forget what America
did
"And you know what happened on
the field of. battle since the month Of
July-first on the Marne then in the
region of Verdun. General Pershing
wished as far as possible to have his
army concentrated in an American
sector. The Argonne and the Height
of the Meuse were a sector hard to
tackle. There We're considerable OBJ
stacles there.
All right l told him. Your men
have the DEVILS own punch. They
will get away with all that. Go to
it.
''And finally everything went well;
everything went so we'll that here we
are on the Rhine"
Marshal Foch was asked by the
correspondent:
But was not the armistice con-
cluded too soon
"It was not possible to do other
wise" answered the marshal, be
cause the Germans gave up every
thing that we asked for at once.
They satisfied all of our conditions
1t was difficult to ask more.
Doubtless any general would
have preferred to have continued the
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