A recent number of the daily American Official Bulletin that
we have received, dated July 13th, illustrates the American belief in publicity. It contains a long statement by the Chief of Staff, giving full details concerning the American Army in France, its strength, its organization, and its commanders. The Army, he says, is composed of three corps, each of six divisions, and an army corps contains from two hundred and twenty-five to two hundred and fifty thousand men. The American army corps, it will be seen, is far larger than any European corps. General March describes each division, saying, for example, that the Forty-first or &neat Division in the First Corps is composed of National Guard troops mainly from the Pacific Coast, and that the Seventy-seventh in the Second Corps is a New York division, the first of the National Army to reach the firing-line, and is commanded by Major-General Duncan. "As other corps organize," says General March, "I will announce them." He takes it for granted that the nation wants to know, and ought to know, as much as possible about the national Army. He does not care in the least whether the enemy learns anything new. In fact, the official details concerning theArtierictrn•
Army are the best kind of propaganda, which must be extremely unpleasant for Germany.
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