URGE SENDING UNITED STATES TROOPS TO RUSSIA.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14287, 2 May 1917, Page 4

URGE SENDING UNITED STATES TROOPS TO RUSSIA.

.\JILLION MEN NEEDED ON E AST-

ERN FRONT.

»ST. PAUL'S (U.S.) April 9. The L T nited States shoiild send one ■million' troops- to Russia instead of Franco if it wishes to do the most good to the Allies, declared Major .George Houle, U.S.A., m command' at Fort Sneling, to-day. *■- - ' A'The addition of this force would improve the morale of the Russian, troops and instill a real fighting spirit iri tliem>" jSfajor, Houle said. "Transportation of --t**oops -to Rusisa. would not be difficult, .^s> there are no submarines operating m the Pacific Ocean, and the transSiberian Railroad, recently -has-been double-tracked. Germany is- preparing to oarry on a very long defensive warfare on the Western front, and the addition of American troops to French or British forces would mean little. ; "On; the Eastern front, which is 1200 .miles long, the Germans have never been called upon to meet an attack from an efficient army. The , Russians are m peed of machinery and efficient officer? and men who are able to handle the equipment, of. modern warfare.

."The addition of one' million .American troops to the Russian forces, would result m one of the biggest offensive? that the I world has even seen."