| Show WAR PLANS READY COMPLETE SCHEME OF INVASION OF MEXICO WAS PREPARED DY BY WAR COLLEGE UKE LIKE SCOTTS AND TAYLORS experienced Off officers cers have drawn up details of operations for use in armed conflict with any nation on earth by GEORGE CLINTON washington whon whan the first note nota of wara vara alarm was heard tho the instant query was how well prepared prep areil Is the united state for eventualities in a previous dispatch it was told how the quartermasters department was ready to food feed and clotho clothe three big armies and that the chances wore thoro there would be no repetition ot tho the ri scandal candal of which was un an affliction of the spanish war days an army amy must bo be fed clothed and ahmod armed but there are other things necessary for proper preparation for tile tho war lit in the city of washington thoro thero to la a war college an army institution in which officers of advanced brank go to lo school again it Is IB one of tho the duties of tho the war college to study stra gody and to lay plans tor for possible conflict with any nation on hartli when tile tho first sign came that war with mexico was possible tile the war col aeao gave to tho the authorities a completo plan for tho the invasion by armed forces of tho the S spanish pan istia A american in erlean coun conn try in III fact it gave several plans each cacti one of which was intended to moot meet certain neloa of campaigning pai gning long before tho the leel fleet was fiant csont to vora vera cruz the army men had taken a thought on tile tho possibility that Ilu aluerta orta carranza anti anil villa might join forces against the I 1 united states one plat of campaign tho the most comprehensive one was prepared to meet just such a condition another plan took cognizance of the possibility or probability that carranza and villa would not resent oil nn invasion of mexico if tile tha object of tho the invaders was to drive aluerta irom from tile the capital and to set up a constitutional government this plan of was less elaborate than tile the other but it was based on oil the best beat thought which some thirty or forty array army officers of long service could albring to boar on the sub subject jeci much like scotts plans it may seem a curious thing but tho the plans for eat campaigning in mexico in a general way wore w ero those which were adopted by scott and by taylor in the mexican war of tho the late forties this is IB the more peculiar perhaps because the entire system of fighting has changed atrice the scott days tho the greatest change having come within ibo abo last twenty years army men say that general scott was a fine strato gist and that moreover he was an adept at discovering tho the lines line or of least resistance for nn an 0 effective sea cam m an army going from vora vera cruz to mexico city today would follow the line riene of march that scott took no better route has haa been found notwithstanding the fact that tha t modern weapons and the open order method ot at lighting change tactics as necessarily as aa they must chango change sonic some forms of strategy it Is understood tho the war colleges prepared for trouble un n mexico also include a scheme tor for a northern campaign much like ilka that which was put into operation hy by general taylor who fought so successful ly against tho mexicans and who won ono mono battle with an army of men pitted against an army of men under the greatest military leader per leaps that mexico over ever produced plans for any war while the war college was waa preparing tor for campaigns in mexico it was not forgetting tho the possibility of campaigns elsewhere Isow hero and of possible defensive campaigns in panama and on the west coast of the tha united states of course it will bo be readily understood what country the war college men had in dimind when they were discussing plans for or the protection of the country west of tile the and the isthmus of panama against attack it is a fact that today it if tho the united states should bo be thrown in into towar war with england with germany with prance France with Italy with ith russia with japan or with an country plans instantly would be forthcoming from the war college for the conducting of such land operations as might be necessary the naval war college would produce its sea fighting plans and it would be found that no matter aliat nation small or had bad made the declaration of war thero there would be ba teady ready a complete scheme of operations of often feill sive and defensive tor for use bythe by the tod ted states land and naval forces no hope of early Adjourn adjournment mert while a good many members of congress possibly a majority have been showing every over desire to compass an adjournment without passing some of the legislation which the president has been insistent shall abe be taken up at this aeda seti iou siou there As is a current belief that mr wll wil son has haa told tho the leader hla party i that them the i legislation must be passed vand and that congress must stay at its work situation caused a do delay inthe consideration of antitrust anti trust measure measures si and ilind even halted id for ta a time progress nr greEs of the appropriation bills it was believed list lat winter that an BI jou t would come came about june 1 but now unless something unforeseen and almost inconceivable shall occur it Is virtually certain that moving day for tho the congress congressmen mer will come very much later president wilson with hla his mexican difficulties has baa been under a very se yoro yero physical and mental strain and he needs rest much more probably th an do any of tho the of ills his party who hold seats beats in congress but if seemingly sure signs are not misread tho the lawmakers will remain at their desks until they have put on the legislative books two or throe three more of tho the resolutions contained in tho the democratic declaration of principles set forth at baltimore in 1012 1912 senate debating tolls exemption Tho Thal senate hist now la Is debating the tolls exemption clause of the panama canal act the bill repealing the free tolls provision was reported to the sonata without any recommendation back of at it it was accompanied by an amendment also without a recommendation men dation either way which declares that the repel action by the united states congress does not in any way suggest or intend to suggest that this country shall by tho the action forfeit any ally of its treaty rights or intends so to do in the future this amendment seemingly la is acceptable cep table to the administration for it does not in any way affect tho the proposed legislation and it probably la is intended merely as a gratuity gra aulty to members of congress who havo have opposed tile the administrations position it aeoma to bo be tile bellot belief of the majority of 0 legislative thinkers in washington that tho the tolls repeal bill will go through the senate by a small majority thereby upholding the president in ili his appeal on the tha subject to congress honor to barrys memory the unveiling of tho the statue of commodore john barayon Bar ryon may alay 16 of this year adds another to the memorials of american heroes now standing in ili the city of washington barrys sea service to the american colonies during the revolutionary war was of a high order second only probably to that of john paul jones although there are many men who think harrys barrys record should stand on a plane with that of tho scotch american who carried the war into tile the waters and won two of tile the famous naval battles of the before long it ta is believed the money necessary will be subscribed to erect in ili washington a statue to admiral francois joseph paul do de grasso grasse the french naval commander who by blockading the british squadron at the mouth ot or chesapeake bay in october 1781 helped to torce force the capitulation of cornwallis Cornwall ls and tile the surrender to washington of tho the british forces at yorktown tho the sona soils of the revolution organization as represented in the washington chapter has endorsed a resolution to make every effort to secure the funds necessary for the erection of the statue to do de grasse it Is probable it will be erected in fit lafayette square immediately opposite the white house alouse the washington chapter of the sons sonn of the revolution a few days daya ago made a trip to yorktown and with them as aa their guest went J J jus the french ambassador to the united states it was while on this trip that the chapter adopted a resolution to secure the funds for the erection of a suitable statue to de grasse yorktown rather decrepit the scene of great victory niada made possible by the aid of tile the french has haa been spoken of as a tottering village it Is more thun than a bit decrepit with iago age but its years have been honorable and in this llo lie the hope and the belief that the amerlean american people will exert themselves to save anve the historic places in the village from the decay that threatens I 1 where the ho york river joins issues with the chesapeake bay lies yorktown you can reach the place whore washington overcame over camo cornwallis Cornwall ls by a water journey from norfolk that takes littly 0 o more inore than an hour thu tho trip and the interest that lies at its ita end pay compound percentages on the time invested rare here and there in yorktown are substantial old dwellings of the colonial period they will outlast the buildings of a later day for they were founded on the rock of honest construction st one old place has towering chimneys that with the rest of the house have a time weary look but dissolution la is not in sight because bac luse the builders well this Is the thomas nelson home and for ft a time cornwallis Cornwa llla made it his headquarters a fact which came caine to the knowledge of the owner who was with washington in the ranks of the besiegers had his own house bombarded colonel nelson went to the corn cant mander ln in chief and told him that the general was in his house and that it if guns could be brought to bear with the residence as aa a mark cornwallis might be crushed under the falling walls it there were a good heavy gun marksman in the american army they tell you ou today in yorktown that colonel nelson told his chief he would sacrifice fifty homesteads homestead s it if ho he owned them to put cornwallis Cornwall ls on an the bos hospital list the american gunners fired away at the walls of the nelson home and lift hit them three or four times corn was there but it did not take balte him long to learn the drift of the shooting and lie he took refuge in a cave under a parapet of brick work vork and sand and there i lay cadely I 1 |
