FOUR MILLION AMERICANS FOR WEST FRONT.
(Received 9.10 a.m.) WASHINGTON, August 15. The Military Committee of the Senate learned from General P. C. March, Chief-of-Staff, that the United States ought to send four million soldiers lo France. The new war programme cuntomplatns eighty Vnited States divisions next June on the western front, where it is hoped that the war will be decided-—(A. and N.Z. Cable.) General March anonunccs that President Wilson is tirmly convinced that (American military policy ought to be centred in the western front. (It declined to be diverted from tbat one thing. The United States purpose was now to furnish enough man-power as early ac possible to whip the Germans. An additional 2,300,000 men were required. — (A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 195, 16 August 1918, Page 5
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