Show D 1 FOCH TO TALK I I ON STRATEGY TO HERALD FAMILY I Most Timely Series of Articles l Ever Printed in I Salt Lake Newspaper The Salt Lake Lako Herald has arranged I to offer Its readers in the tho near future tho the most timely interesting cries aeries I of articles ever published In this city The They are arc written 1 by that greatest of oC I military commanders Marshal Ferdi- Ferdi Ferdinand nand nantI Foch Foeh under tinder whose whoso leadership the tho allied aWed forces Corces aro are now driving tho the German German Ger Ger- German man IH hordes back towards Berlin This series of oC articles by hy General J Foch aro are his full fuJI and candid expressions expressions of The Principles of War ar as given en b by him in lectures delivered at atthe tho the French FIonch war college before the tho present world worM conflict commenced They havo have been translated Into English English Eng Eng- lish hish b by J. J do late of the foreign forel for for- el eign n legion and major in the tho Canadian expeditionary forces Characteristic of oC the man the tho articles articles arti arti- cles des which are aro to be he presented by The H Herald arc are not only the of ot I I nr r t i. i ht t they 1 show 0 in every r line t the tho l Irresistible I tIb energy of tho the man upon whom the united command of the forces of oC Europe Europe Europe Eu Eu- rope and America has now devolved Placed In command of the tho allied armies at tho tim suggestion Bug of President Wilson Marshal Foch has handled the situation with such masterly skill slem aa ns asto to even call forth tho the admiration atthe of at the enemies whom he has defeated He has shown tho ho world his ability a as aleader a aleader leader in bringing to together ether and welding welding weld weld- ing Ino Into one compact machine Jho he French British Kalian Italian and American armies With this machine carefully In hand ho he has hils put his theories into practice with the resultant demoralization mUon of the formerly triumphant forces of the enemy Lord French tho the greatest exponent of or military strategy In Great Creat Britain In a n. statement made In London on Au August 4 his admiration for fOI the allied leader in the following words t Just at the right moment In the tho recent Marno battle In tho the nick of time when hen the enemy had easU easily gone sone Into a trap so cunningly laid the scene changed like hike magic and with an Irresistible irresistible irre Irre- rush the French turned aroun around Wo e 0 should do well wall to remember how this great reversal came about It was wnM because the hand of one great commander was at the tho helm on the western front Unity of command had at last been established and the armies on the time western front WOr being led in union by the tho greatest soldier this war has produced produced General General Foch Such compliments as this come only from a a. man like Lord French when the they have been brought forth b by almost al almost al- al almost most superhuman skill akin and courage I Maurice Barres classed at the head ft or at f til the O I n At-n t r f th i li A T 11 in a recent article P published b h dU dUJ J In Vt the tho London Mall Mail spares no In the tho credit given the gr great nt leader when he says sas It Is not a fortuitous concatenation of ot circumstances or a lucky hazard which carried General Foch to the posItion position position po po- po- po he occupies bu but t tho the ver very logic of war He reaches supreme command at the moment moment when hen events have proved his doctrines to be right and when the tIme results of his teaching and anci methods have ha shown that he he has the tho qualities necessary to lead us to vic vie tory There Ther have been great reat leaders who won through the following of or a lucky star not so with Foch The reader of hi his articles will Bee see In every line lino the same samo strategy which has driven back the German commands with a a shaugh- shaugh ter and amI loss of ot prisoners never ne equaled aled In mo modern ern conflict The Tho following extract ex ex- tract from chapter 7 of the Foch Fochi articles ar ar- ar- ar tides shows that the time great victory was simp simply the culmination of or plans made years ears ago by br a 1 mastell masterly To surprise Is Ig to crush at close range b by numbers and amid within a a limIted lim lini- time otherwise the enemy sur stir b by greater numbers Is enabled to moot meet tho the attack to bring up his re reserves re- re servos serves and tho the assaulting assaulting- forces lose the advantage of or surprise Thc They lose It also if Ir the surprise begins from afar atar for 01 tho the enemy can thanks to the range of weapons weapon's weapons and to their dela ln r r nr ln Mm iri u to bring up h his s r reserves s r Hence appears tho superiority of or maneuvering maneuverIng- armies alone alono capable of f speed for tOI Preparing an attack Beginning it at nt close range Carrying It through rapidly Any student o of the recent battle battlo of farno knows that It was through the few short maxims quoted above and put rut In execution with precision and certainty that the greatest victor victory of or the war was carried through without a hitch |