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confer with Gen. Goethals and ask him
TO release me from my promise. For
o second time I met him on the street
lpst as he was coming out of his hotel.
His face plainly showed his disturbed
state OF mind. At once he told me that his
orders had been revoked, and that he
was recalled to Washington. I recall
olstlnctly the exact words Gen Goethals
used, but he has passed on, and I
shall not quote him further.
Because OF its Importance I have re-
peated the foregoing details which ap-
peared in my original article This
whole matter is one of difference be-
tween what Gen. Goethals told me and
what Gen. Peyton C. March now main
ta1ns. On the one hand is Gen.
March's declaration that no orders we're
ever issued; on the other are Gen
Goethals positive statements that he
was on his way, and his later state
ment that he had been recalled to
washington. When Gen. March chal-
lenges the statements of Gen. Goethals
he challenges the statements of a man
OF highest honor, and who could have
had no possible object in misrepre-
sentation.
Backs GoethaIs' Word.
! put the word Of Maj. Gen. George
W. Goethals against the word Of Gen
Peyton c. March, who, in his book,
claims that he thoroughly reorganized
the embarkation service relieving the
officer then in charge, and detailing in
his place Capt. Frank T. Hines"-quite
a remarkable achievement when it Is
considered that Hines had been on duty
in the embarkation Office for several
months and been chief Of embarkation
for several weeks before Gen. March
arrived in the War Department
put the word Of Gen. Goethals
against the word OF Gen. March, who
claims that he knew in advance of his
arrival precisely the reorganization he
proposed to effect in the general staff
and then gives the names of my new
divisions s"-Quite a remarkable achieve.
ment when it is remembered that or
arrival he found every one of my new
divisions already in active operation
under the names he would have the
public believe were devised by him.
put the word of Gen Goethals
against the word of Gen. March, who
claims to have selected Gems. Goethal.
and Jervey and assigned them as headl
Of two Of my new divisions quite 8
remarkable achievement when it is re.
called that both of these extremely ablt
officers had been installed as chiefs O
thSir respective divisions weeks befor,
the return of Gen. March.
put the word of Gen. Goethal
against the word of Gen. March, VIII,
makes the specific claim that a fey
weeks after he had assumed duty a
chief of staff Maj. Gen Henry r
Mccain, the adjutant general. came t
him with a statement that his ofic
was then handling 225,oo0 cases pc
day, more than were handled in q yea
during the Civil War period-a clair
Gen. March can support neither by tn
record, nor by testimony OF Ger
Mccain.
In conclusion want to say that
wrote the review Of Gen. March's boo
for one reason only When / read HI
many prepoStercus claims; when ] sa'
how he was reaching out for credit
every direction; when I saw that n
was tar more concerned in giving
the public the i6ea that he was tn
man who gave orders to Pershing
than he was in giving 10 the publ
actual facts. felt my Indignation ris,
+ tsat that somebody who knew tn