Show VICTORY IN SIX MONTHS THINKS 1 COMMISSIONER French Captain Predicts End 4 Shortly After Another r Verdun Is Seen ik f 9 An Atlantic Port Jan 1 The I-The The entente allies aro entering tie the hardest period or of the war but bUl a period which will provo pro richest In decisive e results It If we we know lenow how to pIa play a L good game same and tits Its Issue will be decided In the next sIx months according to Capt Andre French high commissioner to the United States who returned to this country toda today Ho will go to Wash Wash- ton tomorrow i The commissioner first arrived in countr country H last st stIa May MaI Ia He Ho returned to France In November and his government gay gov- decided to continue his ott- ott f title for a L period of six months r Another verlun Ex I rt r While Captain pointed to the tho I possibility of or a n strong German attack tori on the western front during during- this win win- ter he Is absolutely conti confident dent that It will be another Verdun he declared Ina Ina in ina a statement fl f L The urgency of an enormous economic econom ic effort was as emphasized h by the French representative in this statement J The battle is not only on art the battle battle- I field I have told the French with sIth complete te frankness what America exPects expects ex- ex from them In the way of or 1 I and new sacrifices I am coming coining back lack to explain here the necessary sac- sac I that France and her allies are arc expecting from America r f. f Things Needed Men Ien wheat oil ships and locomotives locomotives needed and tives are the things most which America is able to give Captain Tardieu sai said t The Tho French arm army has never ne been more magnificent tho the British arm army Is is 18 equally equall superb and the American American Ameri Amen can army Is 18 Increasing da day by da day Captain said in speaking of oC the morale of the allied forces force I a That ho might retain his commissionership commission commission- to the United States Captain Tardieu declined to accept a portfolio In Premier Clemenceau's cabinet |