The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-10-28
STEAmS
into HARBOR
AMID CHEERS
Mighty Bombardment Of Ap-
plause Greets Renowned
Commander on Arrival to
Sit with Legion Buddies.
THOUSANDS GREET HERO
(By Associated Press)

NEW YORh, OcL. ga mighty
bombardment of cheers greeted Mar
shall Foch when he steamed into New
York today on the liner Paris, to sit
with his American buddies at their
legion's convention in Kansas City.
Tumultuous thousands lined the wa
ter front to welcome the grey-haired
little man, soldier of France, and citi-
zen of the world, who had held the al
lies cards in the great game of war,
and had turned the trick.
Up the harbor he came, escorted
by fleet destroyers and soaring sea-
planes to the boom of guns from forts
guarding the harbor's mouth, great
blasts from whistles afloat and ashore,
and resounding cheers for the man
who had out-Napoleoned as tactician.
To greet him at quarntine was the
navy cutter Vigilant. bearing Ambas-
sador Jusseand, Assistant Secretary of
| the Navy Roosevelt, Alton I. Roberts,
of the American legion, and national
and state officials.
Goes to Washington.
1 MARSHAL OCH WdS lO D0
to the Lexington and brought to the
/ battery where he will first set foot on
American soil and receive greetings
on behalf of the state from Lieut.. Gov
ernor Woods From the battery he
will be conducted through the canyons
of Lower Broadway to city hall, where
he will receive the freedom of the city
! from Mayor Hylan.
The Marshal will leave late in the
day for Washington, where tomorrow
| he has a luncheon engagement with
the President and Mrs. Harding. He
will leave on Sunday for Kansas City
to attend the American Legion con
vention after which he plans an ex
/! tended tour.
Marshal Ferdinand Foch might well
be called the fighting professor.
One of the foremost lecturers or
military subjects in Europe. he wor
honors on the early battlefelds of the
world war and in its last year, as the
supreme commander of an allied force
of 100000 men, successfully prac
tised the strategy he had preached sc
many years in the French War col
ilege.
The morning of November II, 1918
| found him, a marshal of France, sit
ting in his private car behind the lines
smoking his pipe and waiting. in the
unnatural calm that followed the hush
ing of the big guns, the coming o
the German ENJOYS to ask for peace
at the Allies price. The professor:
theories of strategy and moral force
in warfare had been vindicated.
Foch fought in the Franco-Prussial
war as a second lieutenant, as dit
Joffre. They were both born in III,
south of France. Foch worked for tn
rest of his life with the shame AM
humiliation of that debacle in hi
mind. He studied the battlefelds o
that war until he knew them as vel
as his own backyard. He studied h
German war machine, the psycholog
of its leaders, the reasons for thei
mistakes and their successes.
Wrote Text Books
Later, as a professor in the Wa
i, college, he wrote text books on til
conduct of war and the principles O
war. He worked with enthusiasm an
: patriotic fervor TO indoctrinate tn
. young French officers with the prir
: ciple of the offensive at all costs
: Battles are won morally, as well a
materially, he said, and he stresse
the moral element in modern warfare
As a general commanding a force c
r 10000 men, Foch found himself or
: posed by a German army of 200, 90
: men at the first battle of the Marn
in 1914. AS the battle progressed
: aides rushed in to warn him both hi
3 wings were being pushed back "W
: must attack in the center" said Fool
? Order up The Moroccans"
D The German center, composed {
3 Prussian guards, the flower of thei
army, gave way under this unexpecte
G onslaught and later airplane observ;
+ ton brought news to Foch of a gap
/ the German line. He pushed in
wedge of infantry, supported by heav
: artillery, and dawn found the German
: in panic and retreat"