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Show PERU URGES PATIENCEAT II Declares New Troops Cannot Can-not Be Rushed Into the Front Line Trenches. PARIS, Sept. 1. Major General Pershing, who has remained in Paris clearing up the work at his old headquarters, head-quarters, and who is not going to field headquarters until Sunday or Monday, declared today in connection with the plans for the coming winter that the American people must learn the meaning mean-ing and value of patience and not expect ex-pect that the expeditionary forces landed land-ed in France can be rushed immediately imme-diately to the front-line trenches. To put an inadequate, insufficiently supplied sup-plied force into actual combat, he said, would merely be making a mistake which the Germans unquestionably have hoped and expected the United States would make. It is the determination deter-mination rather that when the United States does take her place in the line, shoulder to shoulder with the allies next year, she will be fully prepared to fo through the summer campaign and make the Germans feel the full weight of her military power. "Those of us who have fully studied the situation and who know what must be done," said General Pershing to the Associated Press, "are anxious that the people at home shall strive to realize the immensity of the task in which we are engaged and shall, through patience and confidence, help us to accomplish that task in the shortest short-est possible time. Everything is going go-ing well with us, both as a nation and as an army. We are making giant strides day by day, but we are just started. "We came into the war without an army. We always have been a peace-loving peace-loving people and undoubtedly the great majority of us hoped we should be spared war. So now we must build an entire new organization, and build it so big and so strong that we can take our place along with our allies, who already have had three years' time and experience. "f realize how very difficult it is for the people at home to visualize the war. to visualize the effort that lies behiud the war. Our problems are greater than any France and Great Britain had to solve, but we are solving solv-ing them, and will continue to do so. "It is impossible to create a vast fighting machine merely by the wave of a wand. .1 wish that it were possible pos-sible to do so and that we might be fighting the German government this minute. We know that the only way to defeat the German army is to hammer ham-mer and keep on hammering it. That is what we expect to be doing with all our fresh strength and enthusiasm during dur-ing next year's campaign. But until we can properly take our place in the line the people must be patient and as confident as we are, who know what we are doing and what we must do." |