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Show GEBSl 1USS : AGAIN IN PARiS OHHSSII Chief of Staff Is Accom-panied Accom-panied by High Officers of the Service to Advise Ad-vise on Questions. WILL REPRESENT U. S. IN COUNCIL Will Assist in Forming Plans of Strategy That Cover All the Fronts and All Armies. WASHINGTON. Jan. I. General Tas-Ver Tas-Ver H. BliaB, chief o( staff, who arrived In Paris today, will represent I he United States army on the supreme war council. Secretary Baker in so announcing tonight fllscloHed that the general la accompanied ty high officers of every branch of the service, to advise him about, any questions that may ariso. General Bliss attended the first meet-ins meet-ins of the council ami decision to send him back to Europe, as a permanont representative rep-resentative In that body was made because be-cause it was recognized that General T'ershing'3 duties in organizing and commanding com-manding the ever-increasing American expeditionary forces were too great to permit him to undertake the presentation of American views on military operations ajid to sit with the council in framing plans of strategy that covor all fronts and a!t armies. No word of the departure of General Bliss had been published until the news of his safe arrival came today. j Will Make Minute Report. From General Bliss the war council will obtain art uprtorthe-minute report on I -what the United States will be able tq I contribute to operations on the western front this spring and summer. His report re-port has been forecast to some extent by President. Wilson's statement to con-I con-I gresslonal visitors that there would be I in Europe in June, twice the number of American troops which it had been i originally planned to send by that time. General Bliss also can inform his conferees con-ferees exactly the situation in which the United States finds itself now as to delivery de-livery of supplies of all sorts to the allies. While Secretary Baker's statement merely said that. General Bliss had arrived ar-rived in France to represent the army on the council, there have been intimations intima-tions that renewed recommendations for vigorous offensive operations on the wiliest possible, scale were, included in the instructions the general received be j fore sailing. Proposed German Offensive. Probably the primary consideration he-fore he-fore the council when it reconvenes will be the widely advertised proposed Gerr man offensive on the western front. A mass of information has reached the aU lied powers from many quarters indicating indicat-ing an impending drive against the British Brit-ish or French lines, or both, which will be carefully reviewed. The possibility suggested by Colons) Repineton. the British military critic, it) his initial article, in the .London Post, today, that the German concentration may be 'to support negotiations,'' rather than for an assault, is in line with views held bv some American officers here. They feel that the German high com? maud is endeavoring to set up the bogey of a great attack as a preliminary to another peace drive. v The. possibility is suggestefl here that the allies may anticipate the German attack at-tack with' a great drive as the British once did in Flanders. |