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Timaru Herald, Volume CVII, Issue 165563, 15 June 1918, Page 6

American papers now to land give interesting information of the rate at whicli American troops are being sent to France. It is indicated that something over 100,000 men a month will cross the Atlantic, and that there will bo a million American soldiers in France before the end of the summer. That does not mean that an army of anything like that size will be available this year, but the system of brigading Americans with. Allied troops will go far to accelerate their usefulness. A Washington correspondent states that, altogether, the "United States should have under arms more than 2,22-5,000 men by the end of this year, and a goodly proportion of these should bo in France. "Instead of agreeing on the specific number to which *he Army should be enlarged," lie adds, " the War Department really wants authority to create as big an army as it can, without limit of any Irind, or the necessity for malting repeated reouests for legislation in the future.*? That twwer has now been given to the President.

It is the constant growth' of the American army which makes it essential for the "War Lords to continue their attempts to win a decisive victory on the Western Front this year, no ma*£er at what cost. When Kemmel hill was lost by the Allies a British officer who fousrht there declared that " Frifz shed en ouch blood west of it to float the American transport Leviathan." T?ot a few positions which the Germans have gained since must have been won at as dear a price as Kcmmel.

For compressed energy a resolution by t!ie workers of Woolwich Arsenal, which was stated to have much impressed many members of the House of Commons at the time when General Maurice's charges against 3lr Lloyd George were causing their sensation, must have seemed difficult to surpass. The resolution was as follows:"The Germans want you to go, the pacifists want you to go, but we, the workers, do not want you to go. Tour enemies are our enemies. Damn them all! God save England!" The Woolwich workers, however, would appear to have. a gift for trenchant utterance, since a writer in the "Fortnightly" for May records an earlier resolution passed by them, which was more brief and even more vigorous. British pacifists had been unusually busy. There seemed even to be a danger of their making an impression on some classes. Mr Bam say Macdnnald " besran to parade lus acquaint-a.nce.ship with the Bolshevists." Litvinoff—their "ambassador" in London—was his "friend and companion." Then came the Gorman offensive, its strength duo to the Bolshevik desertion, and, as Great Britain was seen to be struggling for her life, a great revulsion o-f feeling swent over the land, and the Woolwich entrinoers passed a resolution: "To hell with Ramsay Macdonald and Philip Snowxlen !" "Blunt language," comments tho recorder, "but well deserved." j

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