24 AUGUST 1918, Page 2

General March, Chief of the American General Staff, stated before

a Congress Committee at Washington on Monday that on August let 1,801,000 men were in France or on their way there, that there were 1,432,000 men in training at home, and that 277,000 were called up in the August draft. The Government intended to send a quarter of a million men every month until the spring, when the number would increase. If America could mass eighty divisions, each of 45,000 men, in France by June 30th, 1919, the war might be ended next year. It is a cheering prospect, and it can be realized, as the enemy now knows. Moreover, an American Army of over three and a half millions will insist on a genuine peace.