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If; GREAT PLAN OF
:: WAR MAPPED OUT
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r inals and Other Facilities
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I BUILT SINCE JUNE
Scheme Studied in France,
P : the Scene of Activities and
ji Theater of War.
, ; ' WASHINGTON, Jan. 28. Many of
', !r' I the facts given today by Secretary
'j I Baker have been known to newspaper
t 1 correspondents here In the capital
, '1 1 but, under the voluntary censorship,
j ' I they have not become known until
J is.' j Air. Baker described to the coniinlt-
, toe how the American army has built
t -j great lines of railroads, one of them
1 j 600 miles long, up to Pershing's head-
f t 1 quarters in France, with ports and ter-
. I j minals and other facilities necessary
1, yl ; to handle the great quantities of sup-
i plies and equipment which the army
j k iVft will need on the fighting lines. All
j jf ' this has been done by Americans and
V Vtj ' since General Pershing's troops landed
Vff j last June.
E , ;'. ;j Baker Earnestly Addresses Senators.
f j Leaning forward ami addressing the
j j , I ; senators earnestly, the secretary of
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war told a story the general staff prob
ably would have given much to know.
Ho approached the subject by depart
ing from the answer to criticisms and
referring to It as "the plan for the
war."
"I think I understand why Senator
Chamberlain thought there Tvaon't any
plan," said Secretary Baker. "I don't
know how the committee and the
country feel about it, but I want to
say there is a plan. It's the only pos
sible plan under tho circumstances.
"It must be remembered that this
war broke out in August, 191-1, nnd we
went Into it in April, 1917. So that for
two and a half years it had been go
ing on. It was not as if an immediato
plan could be made for the war's pros
ecution. Coming Into War.
"But we were coming into this'war
which had been going on over two and
a half years In which all the military
capacity, the inventive genius and the
industrial resources of these other
greatest of countries had been en
gaged on the problem of what the war
was to be.
"It was not for us to decide the thea
ter of war. That theater was in France.
It was not for us to decide the lino of
communication. It was 3000 miles
uway with one end infested with sub
marines. It was not for us to decide
whether maneuvers in the open should
be attempted. Men were already in
the trenches in a death grapple.
Problem Is To Get Over.
"Our problem was and is to get
over and at the enemy. It was not
for us to map out at the war college
an ideal plan of campaign, a theoreti
cal plan. Our plan was to get into co
operation with Great Britain and
France and other friends in the most
immediate and efficient way.
"That plan couldn't be decided here.
It can't be decided in words. It Is so
extraordinary and so vast that it must
be seen and studied on the ground be
fore It can be comprehended at all.
Mr. Baker told of the coming of the
British and French missions with Bal
four and Joffre.
"These men were seen in the halls
of congress but few people saw the
staffs of trained experts they brought
with them and how they divided them
selves up through the -war department
Most Brilliant Men.
"They were the most brilliant men
in their armies," he said. "Every
country has sent us that sort of ex
perts." Even as these experts talked, Sec
retary Baker said, the story they told
grew old.
Weapons they had helped to develop
had become obsolete before they could
be got to the front.
, A Moving Picture.
"This was a moving picture. It was
necessary that we have oyes there to
see and report and we sent General
Pershing and the major part of the
trained personnel of the army that
pitiful handful of trained men."
General Pershing now reports dally
in cablegrams that run into hundreds
and even thousands of words, he ad
ded. "We are using their eyes there to
keop up to what they want us to do."
Tho startling progress of the war in
the development of munitions will bo
I shown, he said, by the fact that weap
ons devised by Amorlcau experts dur
ing the last few months have been
discarded.
Then takfug up a copy of the Metro
politan Magazine for last August, Mr.
Baker read a protest in Its editorial
columns against tho supposed policy
of tho govornment to make its con
tribution to tho war financial and in
dustrial "to hold off until the Allies
win tho war for us."
Col. Roosevelt Answered.
A question brought out that Colonel
Roosevelt was then associato editor of
the magazino, which urged that "every
nerve bo strained to got 150.000 to
200,000 men to Franco in 1917."
"I am disclosing no secret," Secre
tary Baker said, pausing, "when I say
we excoeded that number in 1917."
Senator Chamberlain asked if the
maximum had not been exceeded by
August, 1917.
"Not tho maximum," replied Secre
tary Baker. "Tho minimum was ex
ceeded." "Wo will have 500,000 men In France
early In 1918," he added, "and wo will
have a million and a half more ready
to go to Franco during 1918."
Chamberlain asked the sccrotnry
why he could not take tho public Into
his confidence in tho matter.
Afraid to Disclose Secrets.
Secretary Baker replied that ho hes
itated to do that. He referred to a
statement oy uenerai von i-nnuon-burg
to the effect that America was
advertising her intentions.
"But Isn't it a fact that Germany has
known all about this?" persisted Sena
tor Chamberlain.
"No," replied Secretary Baker. "Tho
German government is still mystified
regarding the number of men now in
France. They know what is doing at
the front, but Germany is still mysti
fied regarding the number of men now
in France."
His statement,. Mr. Baker said, was
made on the basis of most reliable
confidential report- received by the
war department.
Confidential Information Kept.'
Secretary Baker wont on to explain
that such things all warring countries
try to keep entirely confidential.
"Why, I do not believe I could even
get the number of men Great Britain
has in France, or at home now, or
could even get that Information from
Franco," ho said. "That may be un
necessary but it is a precaution that
is followed by all military men."
"If the whole regular Amerlcaii army
had been sent into battlo at once," Sec
rotary Baker said. "like England's, It
would have been destroyed."
Welcomed in France.
In eloquent words, Secretary Baker
described how France welcomed tho
first American soldiers, peasants kiss
ing, ho said, tho hems of their coats.
"Of course they welcomed tho Brit
ish, but then their need was not so
great nor wore the ties to England so
close," ho said. "So an Instant re
sponse came from Franco and our sol
diers have continued to go over in an
unbroken stream.
At this hour wo have a fighting
army in France, seasoned and trained
to the warfare. Joffre said it might
take some time for us to get a trained
army over, but that wewero a great
industrial country and could send ar
tisans immediately.
Regiments of RaJIroad Men.
"Although not contemplated at the
outset, we have organized regiments
of railroad men which are building
railroads, behind the British and
French fighting lines aB they advance.
Of such caliber were these men that
at Cambrai, when General Byng was
endangered, they throw down thoir
picks and shovels, grasped rifles and
distinguished themsolves.
"Vory early in tho war Balfour and
Joffre said: 'Send us nurses and doc
tors. Almost before wo were In tho
war Red Cross nurses and doctors and
ambulance drivers In great numbers
woro sent ovor. Our early losses wero
of these.
Call for Mechanics.
"But that was not onough. It was
suggested further that mechanics were
needed. Special studies were made.
Wo found that railroads and other
facilities of Franco had been kept in
excellent condition, far better than we
had thought possible.
"But despite the condition of Fronch
railroads," he said, "it was found nec
essary to provide transportation facili
ties for tho American army In Franco
becauso of tho great demands upon
thoso alroady there.
"In other words," he said, "France
was a white sheet of paper. As far as
we wero concerned, wo not only had
to wrlto an army on that sheet but
we also had to provide maintenance
We havo been building facilities and
agencies in France just as much as In
this country of the same character.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2S. To the re
port on progross of shell making,
showing 60,000,000 shells under manu
facture for delivery this year, Senator
Frellnghuyscn of New Jorsay said:
"From my Information I am inclined
to challenge that statement,"
Secretary Bakor said it was hurried
ly prepared by General Wheeler, act
ing quartermaster-general, but he be
lieved it accurate.
"I want to make one iurther obser
vation," Secretary Baker proceeded,
taking up army food. "I think it is not
unfair for me to say that in tho pro
vision of food no army ever assembled
was fed so ably, so well, so nutritiously
and appetizlngly as this army. While
there have been complaints in other
things, I thing It is the unanimous tes
timony that the food has been of the
highest quality with no suggestion of
defect in its quality, or preparation
and that generally the food proposi
tion has been carried out with the
most extraordinary success."
Cantonment Sites Reviewed.
Sites for tho camps and cantonments
were next taken up by Mr. Baker, who
detailed tho war college's study of the
subject and Its recommendations that
departmental commanders be required
to select camps In their respective
jurisdictions, with regard to healthful
requirements, freedom of overtlow, or
climatic conditions Interrupting train
ing and other desirable and non-desirable
conditions.
BREACH Of PROMISE
SUIT IS WO! BY
OH ill
. Mrs. Margaret Arbon of Ogden was
awarded damages of "$11,625 from
John Blythe of Burley, Idaho, for
breach of promise in Judge J. D. Call's
court at Brlgham City, Saturday, after
a trial of one of the most sensational
cases In northern Utah. Blythe is a
wealthy rancher and hotel owner of
Idaho, owning tho National hotel in
Burley and also extensive property In
terests in Box Elder county. Judgo
J. D. Murphy of Ogden and Attorney
A. B. Irvlno of Salt Lake represented
Mrs. Arbon and tho defendant was
roprosonted by Attorneys John G.
Willis of Ogden and B. C. Call of
Brlgham City. The trial occupied
three days.
Mrs. Arbon brought suit for $50,000
against Blythe. They first mot In
Snowvlllo, according to testimony In
troduced by the plaintiff. They again
met In OgdOQ, where their acquaint
ance grow into friendship. The plain
tiff said that while visiting In City
parK, ijiyme proposeu 10 ner anu sne
accepted him. A day or so later they
wont to Salt Lake City and engaged
rooms at the Cullen hotel. Blythe
spoko of marriage here and said ho
would go and make arrangements for
a marriage license and they would be
married. He left hor, the plaintiff
testified, but did not return for a con
siderable length of time. She wont
down to lobby and found him seated
in a chair and apparently ill. He told
her he had been oxposed to smallpox
.and had hotter go back to Idaho and
go Into quarantine.
They separated a short time later,
Mrs. Arbon remaining in Ogden and
Blythe going back to Idaho. Nearly a
year lator, sho testified, she went to
Idaho and mot Blytho at tho National
hotel. Ho apologized for not having
corresponded with her, and then re
sumed the friendship and engage
ment, she said. They appeared to
gether at numerous functions at Bur
loy and their engagement was publicly
recognized. Again Blytho hositated.
sho said, and refused to keep tho mar
riage appointment. She then Instituted
suit against him.
Blytho said in his behalf that he
visited the plaintiff in Ogden to secure
her sorvices as a cook for his ranch
in Idaho. She "followed him," he raid,
to Salt Lake and then back to Burloy,
Idaho. He introduced a letter to show
that sho had virtually proposed mar
riago to him.
Mrs. Arbon, in an interviow with a
representative of the Standard, said
the plaintiff tried to cast reflections
on her during the trial, but tho jurors
told her, after they brought in their
verdict, that the only question in their
minds was how big the damages
should be, as they believed her evi
dence. Mrs. Arbon said sho had known Mr.
Blythe thirty years, and, after she be
came a widow, he had paid hor atten
tion, which, she did not invite, but he
persisted and finally sho consented to
marry. When the engagement was
broken off the second time she fell
the embarrassment and resolved to,
bring him to an accounting.
ACADEMY STUDENTS
CELEBRATE THEIR
VICTORY
Students of tho Weber academy
broke loose today in a spirit of
triumphal festive joy, celebrating the
victory of the academy basketball
team ovor the Davis county high
school team on Friday night, last. Tho (
faculty wero besieged with requests to
turn tho day over tho students that
they might make proper display of
their exuberant spirits.
An athletic contest and matinee
dance were quickly arranged.
Two contests wero played in the
morning, a game between tho fresh
men and the seniors, and another be
tween the regular team and the fac
ulty. In the first contest the seniors
trimmed tho Frosh, 21 to 19, and the
school team beat the faculty in the
other by a good score.
Tho students lined up In files of two
abreast and paraded tho downtown
district, carrying a largo flag and
marching to the beats of a base drum.
They serpentined down Washington
avenue and marched around several
streets, finally going back to tho
school. In the afternoon the matinee
dance was given in the school audi
torium. The school orchestra furnished
music ior it, 1
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FRENCH TRANSPORT
STRIKES A MINE
PARIS, Jan. 28. Forty lives wore
lost through the sinking of the French
transport Drome and tho trawler Ker
bihan which struck mines January 23
within sight of Marseilles. The Drome
first came into contact with a mine
and the Kerbihan shortly afterwards
struck another near tho same place.
Aviators later discovered other
mines In this region which immediate
ly was swept in an endeavor to clear
them away.
oo
LONDON, Jan. 28 Tho steamship
Cork has been torpedoed. Seven pas
sengers and five of the members of
tho crew woro lost.
HEAD OF SllfiSTs
ENTERTAINED B!
OffllTE
Former Mayor A. R. HeywooJ on? 'i
of tho most prominent Masons and
Shriners In tho west, was host to '
Charles E. Ovenshire. Imperinl Poten
tate of the Shriners, his priest seer- '
tary, Fred Hutchinson, and aboit'
twenty Ogden and Salt Lake citv
Shriners at a luncheon at the Wew
club today. Tho out-of-ttown gueatV
In addition to Mr. Ovenshire and his
secretary, were Fred Hornung T W
Charlton, James H. Brown and F p
Schramm. ' '
The luncheon, although Informal '
was one of the most elaborately an'
pointed events ever held at the Weber
club, where events "of the big sort arc '
the custom. c
At. Uie cIose. at tho personal re
quest of tho former mayor, both Mr
Ovenshire and Mr. Hutchinson made .
short addresses. They complimented i
the west upon Its patriotism and pro- '!
gress and commented in a generally '
pleasing manner upon tho importance
of Ogden, Salt Lake City nnd Utah 1
The Imperial Potentate chief of 'the '
greatest fraternal auxiliary on earth !
arrived in Salt Lake City yesterday
from San Francisco. Ho was accom
panied by Mrs. Ovenshire, and was en
tertained by tho Salt Lake City shrln- '
ers last night at a "Hooverlzed" ban- '
quet. Mayor Heywood was advised of
his intended visit to Utah and Invited
him to make Ogden a visit, which he '
promptly accepted. Since his election j
to his present pre-oralnenco, he hu
traveled moro than 27,000 miles. It i3 I
required that tho Imperial Potentate j
must visit all Shrines during his ad i
ministration of the office. The Shrln j
ers, it Is declared, havo displayed an '
Americanism of tho most exemplify )
class since America's entrance Into !
tho war. Indicative of one feature, j
overy Shrine in America has a service
flag containing from five to scores of i
stars and combined, the Shrines hava
purchased approximately ?4,0 0 0,000 1
worth of Liberty bonds.
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