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Show lines Urges Full Support of Boys on Fighting Front HIS recent trip to France served to emphasize the necessity resting upon the people at home to keep up the supply of men and munitions muni-tions for which General Pershing Persh-ing calls, according1 to Brigadier General Frank T. Bliss, chief of the division of embarkation of the United States army. General Hines, who Is a Salt Lake man, has just returned from across the seas, where he made an Inspection with Secretary Secre-tary Baker of the work that America Is doing- at the front. The Army and Navy Journal, in reference to his observations on his trip, says: "He said ' that the lesson he had learned from what he had seen of transportation trans-portation abroad will be of inestimable value to him in conducting the embarkation embarka-tion and transportation of men from American camps to French seaports. Although Al-though he had been in position to know all about what the army had sent to the other side in the way of men and supplies, sup-plies, his Imagination had not been strong enough to make a picture of what was going on in France to aid the L'nited St.-.tes army. He said he realizes now what its needs are, and the greater responsibility re-sponsibility resting upon this side to keep the supply of men and munitions that General Pershing calls for. In response re-sponse to questions, General Hines said tliat in his opinion this was the time to make greater efforts than ever before, that, with the enemy on the retreat, peace might take flight if we failed to give our army and our allies all . that they asked for the purpose of giving the Huns their knockout blow. He said that he found nothing but smiles and cheerfulness cheerful-ness among the American forces, that even the seriously wounded said that II' they could not get back the other fellows would take their places, and they smiled when they said it. He also said that foreign officers, both French and British, were hearty in their praise of the American Ameri-can soldier, saying that it was their blows in the Marne salient that first turned the German advance and then helped to destroy German morale." |