Show u. u 5 TO KEEP UP GROWTH ARMY Of 4 ARMY Universal ersal Service WASHINGTON 1 Oct 14 We c Wc arc going oin going 1 ri right ht ahead with the thc au augmentation tation cation of the army array and providing pro it il with adequate supplies This stat statement made this afternoon by Secretary of War Var Baker after he Secretary Lansing Secretary Daniels and amid Colonel House had he heel been en with the President discussing the reply to German Germanys Germany's 5 last note was taken as hain having hay hav in prophetic leti significance i f ins ing a n pr oo I THe me whole oar a U in lUI LULL 1 is In tho the same name belligerent attitude toward a continuation of ot the war until until until un un- un- un til it is stopped by some power higher than tho the chief of ot staff stat and the secretary secre tary of ot war On the table while Secretary Baker Batie I made lils ills significant 1 was a apiece II piece of ot ono of ot the shells dropped in I Paris Pane b by the German mile 74 gun Jun It was wn enclosed e In a t handsome case tho the I whole being a gift sift to the secretary from rom the French government o It H had hod a grim I enough h look 1001 about It Il and it could be Lc easily Imagined that what the tho secretary secretary secre secre- tar tary had to say a was as an answer to nay any p peace aco terms except Pt unconditional sur sur- ren render er I Interview ierY Granted Secretary Bakers Baker's Interview today was the first he ho has had with the pr press in general since his ills return fr from m gu- gu rope He lie made some new announce announce- ments One of th these was that tho the In Influenza influenza In- In had hud not attacked the American arm army in France He Ire said however howe that there had been some somo difficulty with respect to the troops arriving from J tho United States Slates Many of or these had j arrived sick on the transports but n a a away i iway Wll way has boen oen found round to isolate them I and there was no spread of or the disease a among mongo the rest o of the expeditionary expeditionary forces I Mr 1 Baker also o said that the lice condition condi 1 tion lions i of or the hospitals Jn In France Franc and England w were re excellent and that many I of ot s surgery had hod been boen performed There Thero wan wn ample floor and bed bell space so 50 that the wounded were wore receiving the tho best attention known to an advanced advance m modern science For the first time lime Mr D Baker ker was prepared prepared prepared pre pre- I pared to announce that the docking fa facilities taI ta- ta wore wore up to the mark marlc I There aro are actually now he said freo treo berths I This was wn cited to show that the conI congestion congestion con con- I lIon cl that had delayed for fOI some time had hall the debarkation of ot troops Doa I American troops Fire are lighting fighting In lar large e f masses 8 with French and Ind the English Eng En- lish ish besides holding ho a very cr large c sector of or their own A All 11 however arc under ulder the orders of ot General Foch Much stress was laid b by Mr It Baker Haker on the fact that the Americans were e cr everywhere everywhere every every- where where there was an fighting When hen I was in France In March arch ho hE hosaki said saki there were scarce scarcely more than or American troops and they were wore stationed In sectors doing defensive defensive de de- e duty Now ow there are arc about there as stated slated by bv General March and the they are everywhere on the aggressive e. Gront Crent I Mr Ir Baker also emphasized the fact tact that there thore Is the utmost harmony harmon among the allies alliee alli and the American troops and that all arc are acting with the theone theone theone one single definite purpose e to win the war Ho lie would make inako 0 no comment on tho the statements that the supreme war council at Versailles had given GI Genela General General Gen Gen- ela eral I Foch tho the conditions condition on which an nn armistice would be enforced these to include the occupation n of or Melz Metz and some coins of the tho Rhine fortresses by b the tho allies nilles It has been suggested however officers that before etore toda today by high army such terms term would be exacted |