Show american TROOPS TO replace LOSS WILL VILL FILL UP RANKS OF BRITISH AND FRENCH DEPLETED IN GREAT BATTLE young americana america ns are arc keenly anxious to get into battle without delay and are expected to play an important part washington american troops are arc hastening to join lit in the fray with their french an and british cuin rades formal announcement front from london that hut these units would bo be merged with tile allied war machines indicated to officials unit ill at losses of the fillies would he be linni immediately etil lately good with vigorous young americans keen for hot but tit tic and tile stage set without delay not only tor for it 11 counter lve hut but for aggressive warfare without pause until tile germ a it invader iriv 11 der shall S not ony only I 1 lie be checked but hurled hack back to ultimate defeat president lias has predicted that tills will bc Q the ilia decisive year of the war in ili the opinion of oe the military officers hero here lii he lias has now taken tile decisive stop step toward making ills his cords good the power of american manhood inan hood Is to be 10 brought to hear bedr without delay not only in ili the american expeditionary urmy army itself hut but ailleo in the lighting fighting ranks of the little arin armies les ry by tills this means tri clans ilia effect of american intervention lit in the war it was said will le be doubled or even trebled tri bled and lit in ill alio con coming illig illys days of tile battle of battles which may fully lust just for americans by hundreds of thousands will platy piny part presumably under the now plan of merging american units in the arni armies fes find also because of the creation of it a supreme commander lit in the person of genoret foch it lias has been found advis allie to provide for a uniform system tit of reporting military it operations Ite viewing the menger meager information that ling hoon available ns its to the great things that have been accod since tho the gernian fernian Ser nian drive beggi many officials tire are convinced that mr fr baker hild leen been sent rent to 1 europe drope by president wilson for the purpose of bringing about just life amalgamation of forces that lins lias been effected in ili urging slit glo command for tile whole battle front in ili the west tt it was regarded as certain that tin the american war secretary would not have gono gone to tho the con fere inca neos |