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Show MOT MMM Ll IE FRONTIN FRANCE Others to Arrive Shortly; England Rejoices Over Prospect. LONDON. May 2S. 4:45 p. ra.-An official offi-cial statement issued here today says that, counting the Americans serving in the British and FiVmch armies and the additional units added to Fiance, there will shortly be 100,000 Americans in France. The statement was issued by the British Brit-ish war office to show America's complete com-plete participation in the war and its ability to give immediate powerful aid. It refers to the draft bill which will give an army of 2,000,000 men and says there are prospects of the greatest success for the loan, of which $750, 000. 00 already has leen advanced to tne entente allies. The statement declares that flotillas of destroyers are co-operating with the entente allies m the submarine zone: that one army division, a force of marines ma-rines and nine regiments of engineers have been ordered to France, and that 10.000 doctors and many nurses have been ordered to England, hundreds of these already al-ready having arrived. Details are given of the increase in the national guard and the regular army and the doubling of the navy personnel, and the assembling of "14.000 Americans of the best type" fn officers' training camps. PARIS. May CS, 2 a. m. Former Pre-, mier Clemenceau. in an open letter, appeals ap-peals to President Wilson to send over Colonel Roosevelt and "his companions." Mr. Clemenceau says: In invaded Prance at the present hour there is a name which represents, repre-sents, by I know not what force of intuition, the beauty of America's intervention in-tervention it is that of Roosevelt. You are too much of philosopher not to know that great popular leaders have influenced men out of all proportion pro-portion to their own real value by tiie intangible atmosphere of legend which has formed around them. Whatever may be the reasons, and without attempting to analyze the phenomenon. I yield to the imperious need to tell you that the name of Roosevelt has in our country at this time a legendary power. It would be an enormous error, in my view, to neglect a force which "everything MTses us to ma-ke use of as soon as poyssibie. We have learned that the first American unit has arrived at the front and with what zest generals j and privates saluted the noble I starred banner. However, you should know, Mr. PrePident, that more than one stout, chevronned poilu said to his comrade in an astonished voice: "But where Is Roosevelt? I don't see him."' |