Show Chief ot of Allied Forces in World Word W War ar Succumbs at 77 After Weeks of Illness Was Declared Most Brilliant Brilliant Bril Bril- Military Strate Strat gist in World MOURNERS GATHER Heart Trouble and Complications Complications Com Com- Fatal By RALPH HEINZEN United Press Staff Correspondent Correspond nt PARIS March 20 United Press Field Marshal Ferdinand Foch supreme commander of the Allied armies in the World war and probably ably the worlds world's most brilliant modern modern mod mod- ern military strategist died at his home here today He was 77 years old old The mild little Frenchman who nth nov r had known actual defeat de- de feat to death only after h Jy f f in his er m bodY Heart trouble troubie and complications which developed de Into uremia caused his death Only a short before his death deatha a. a a priest lead had peen beeh sent to give him the last came at p m. m HEART TROUBLESOME Earlier In the day it had been announced that the tho marshal passed a. a a more mor comfortable night but that his heart had proved troublesome after weakening considerably for some soma days His lungs apparently ivero clear the morning bulletin said with his temp temperature 93 and his pis pUlse 92 The generalissimo of all the allied forces in the war fought valiantly against the th great eat adversary adver- adver sary salY death until the final moment Not cot until all hope wad finally been was the priest sum sum- to adminIster the tho last sacra sacra- nent ment Observers ers saw the priest ener enter en- en ter er the marshals marshal's home hom J md and leave Train again several minutes later Si SImultaneously SI- SI almost the announcement announce announce- nent ment sped out to tho waiting world which has for everal months months' watched news dispatches anxiously for or signs of Improvement In the great teat soldiers soldier's condition As soon as the news of his death became known crowds began gath- gath I ring outside the tho house hous to pay nay silent I to the dead war leader At first only a few intimate friends were apprised ot of hl his passIng pass pass- Ing g but gradually the word spread carrying with It fie he deepest mourn mourn- ling BusIness was practicallY at a standstill as shopkeepers ers and Public like alike mourned The priest h ho had been summoned sum sum- arrived d stood at the bedside bed bed- lIe side for oil anI tWo o minutes turned caned and w cd out his cad wr I r Ile t is s sd Its Js too late he said sald C d ying ng ln then and I lIe Iio had ad gIven absolu absolution departed from the housa hous I house The window blinds blinds' or of the I Continued on on pago 5 A I Famous t f Warriors Warrior's ors or's Career steer Closes A- A lie I I. I Y t x F a Fib f U MARSHAL FERDINAND FOCH Chief of Allied F Forces in W World orId War Succumbs at 77 After Weeks Weeks' Illness Continued from rom page 1 which durI during the last few w eles of the marshals marshal s had been drawn but halfway down due to the old warrIors warrIor's Insistence upon upon sunlight wece drawn to the bottom sash shortly after 6 o'clock and the shut tel's were closed upon the house hous ot of death WoMAN DEPARTS The first outward sign ot of the end tas va the departure from lom the house of a a. woman heavily veiled and n 1 weepIng She departed hastily without reveal revealing nl her A representatiVe of General Felain Pe- Pe lain arrived shortly after the marsh marshals ls l's death a card and w went nt away aar apparently wIthout without wIth wIth- out knowledge that the greatest soldier soldier sol sol- dier of France rance had eld 11 1 By the Associated Press The foremost strategist of the great at war was the ot of Ferdinand lo Foell h marshal of France b Field Marshal l Viscount French first commander ot the British forces in France Crowned with an Immortal glor glory as the saVior of civilization the conqueror of the German go godown godown down In history as the leader lead lead- er who vho with more than tiron soldiers under his comm nd directed directed di- di five fhe battles at once and brought pe peace e to a world desolated b by years ear ot of Indescribable terrOr and bloO bloodshed The victor of this modern Armageddon Arma- Arma geddon eddon was said by Marshal loffre Joffre to be one of th of men The brilliancy o 01 his genius wa wah h hailed cJ throughout tIe tiie world during durin thee historIc days das in l lS when the tilled armies un under l his command drove the Germans out of Prance France The magnitude o of his military op- op orations was stupendoUs l lIe e never would admit defeat Ills His message to Joffre the hero of the Marne when hen the overwhelming armies ot of Von Kluck were sweeping on tow towArd r 1 Paris on mb r 9 1914 will ever remain remaina a a. classic lassic with all soldierS 1118 lie He said My Iy right ht is crushed My left Is in retreat I am attacking ng with my c center MASTER MASTERSTROKE STROKE The appointment or of Foch as as gen gen- of all the th allied forc forces s on March 29 9 1918 eight days das after th G Germans Irad started what was to to be their last great offensive c In Inthe Inthe the west was generally regarded as the master dl diplomatic stroke of the war UnIty of command brought fresh flesh conf confidence enco to tile thc allies alUes and consternation to the enemy Germanys Germany's s Idol Von 11 i at last had root met hIs master The of Infamy and Injustice the war machine which was 49 40 years rears or more In was was was' about to bo be cast upon the ht heap ap The Tho P Pyrenean renean mountaineer lithe as a with the aquiline aqui- aqui tine line nose of a conqueror a man five feet six inches tall tail 16 pounds In wl ht and nd 67 years ears 01 old 1 was as to strike the final blow that was to a a. lozen kings from thrones and blast a. a a new path for tor the pioneers of democracy Three months montils or snore more after ater takIng taking tak- tak Ing the tle supreme Marshal maintained an unbroken front or of more thail miles f the North orth sea to Belfort II JIG waited his time to strIke the al of Am reinforcements gave brim numerIcal superiority over 11 the Enemy and on July 18 he began the ponderous sm smash sh that was to end In th complete cOllapse of Germany German and the cessation of hostilities GAVE GE GERMANS MANS No 40 REST RESi Foch gave ga the Germans no rest but struck unceasing terrific sledgehammer noW blows here now there there-at various points of the line ith the b. b and Belgians Bob Bob- glans gians he stopped th the enemy's ad adVance advance ad- ad vance toward the Ei channel with the French and Am he locked tho way to P Paris Th Then n the Germans began to retire and follo following the e AmerIcan victory at t Thierry th the Ion long battle line from Switzerland n to the sea receded receded re- re ceded dally daily northward and eastward toward the Rhina Each of the fJ five big tattles battles that ete fought under Fochs direction In th the closIng days das of the tho war was wasso so 00 timed and that each army supPOrted the Other othel all forming an part of the whole and andall nil all working as sMoothly as the parts ot of a. a I. I well s adjustEd automobile en- en gine All w v re directed toward tile the same end to wc r down the enemy'S strength fought t with a blu bludgeon geon a oa bl-oa broad broad- sword Foch wIelded it rapier wIth like lite tia at vital spots rh quIntuple con conflict lct the greatest greatest great great- est In all In which the allies recaptured In three c weeks ground In that had cost tire Germans four months of hardship nd le as well as then men to attain is itt at Its height on November No- No o- o vember 2 STATUS OF BATTLE Its status WaS was somewhat as folloWs fol- fol loWs lovs The Tite AmerIcan arm army with J as Its objective WItS va attack attack- In on both sIdes of oC the Meuse One French army was battling In conjunction con con- junction with the Americans left leCt leCtor or of the tho Mane for Another French and British army wa waa pressing forward between the rIver Os Olse and the city of Valenciennes Valen- Valen with and Mons as their goal The British and Bel- Bel glans Ians were driving ahead In Fian- Fian dora dels for TournaI tind Cheat Ghent South of the Oise between that rIver and the Mane another army battered it Its way vay toward the Important important tant railway at Vervis and I Roughly this constituted Foch vise In which the enemy was being squeezed The Germans held on desper tely but even as the stars In their course fought against were forced to yield And then thon came that eventful da day when tile the enem enemy routed by the superior strategy strategy strat- strat egy of Foch sent Its praying for an armistice It was as then according to a correspondent for the Paris Pari Matin that Matthias 1 Erzberger one onG of oC the German pleat pleat- extending his hand to Foch declared Marshal we are at our 3 our mercy Our reserves of men ard tion are exhausted and we can no longer continue the war GERMAN LINE BROKEN The rha line supposed b by many military experts to be e Impregnable and which not a afew afew few believed eventually brill bring about a stalemate had been ll b by The he Ger- Ger mm mart dike was broken The enemy moreover I had bInd all ous loss and nd tho allies allies' casualties were wele light and decision his scientific calculation calc lla tion were too much for the GerI Gel Ger- I mans despite their boasted prowess as warriors An American correspondent referred referred re- re to the wanton slaughter permitted per per- 1 by tile the German commander to which Foch laughingly replied General Grunt Grant Did not IOUi our own believe that could not be won without sacrificing men That Is true admitted the American It If you would win you ou ar are oblIged to sacrifice c men Do not misunderstand me quickly ly the generalissimo a twinkle In his hili eyE ere its ts t's tile the Germans Gee Ger- mans that I sacrifice I never throw throwaway aw away y m my own soldiers No o wonder tile the and thO officers under this wonderful mill- mill tarv taly genius obeYed him Although taciturn an and impetuous he alwa always s 's seemed to act with clear followed b by the tho dash nod and headlong m attack that assured L m vi vIctory to Speaking to a group roup ot of officers one nl night ht l och Foch Is reported to have said First find out your our enemy's weak point and concentrate your our blows tI there ere That Is a a. commonplace of tactics which Is self evident But Dut general broke In an officer or of artillery suppose your our enemy hat hai no weak points That sometimes sometimes some some- times replied Foch nd In that case you OU make maleo a point LOST MORALLY MORALL V Again and he would lie Je Maistre's m A battle lost Is a battle which one believes to have e lost for tor battles batties are lie he woUld not lost And add acid Ba Battles therefore ar are lost and nd it is morally therefore that they are won I Thus the premier soldier gait tile the keynote to his successful career as asa asa I a fIghter and l der of men inca Givena Given OI a a. good cause ite he believed his hili and himself to be invincible For years the shu struggle gle with th tile central powers began I Foch och had pe n preaching preparedness to I France lIe haq been for tor four Cour director of the Ceol de Frances rances great school of war wa jj I had b en a subaltern like e Joffre- Joffre In the prussian Franco war of 1870 Marshal Foch wa aas horn born October 2 2 1851 at Tarbes it a. little city city- In Inthe Inthe the close to the Spanish border His fathers father's family long hal had been settled in the of France having left tile the district ot of Arlege Ariege In tile the seventeenth century going to 10 tile the small man town of Valentine Valen- Valen tine There they established d themselves them them- selves elves as woolen manufacturers and too Cook a prominent p pt part t in municipal affairs MILITARY ANCESTORS It was as from his side that the marshal Inherited his uk- uk In for foi the arm army his material forebears forebears fore fore- bears havin made an honorable military record for Cor their family The student lays of Marshal Marshat Foch were wre not marked by any p bril- bril liance due to frequent changes In tile the abode and consequently or of his schools Ills His father was a lawyer tawyer at Tarbes and later a revenue re official in the latter tatter tat lat ter capacity being bling assigned different dif dlf- ferent places from n time to the In Inthe Inthe the moving about of tile the family the marshal isis Education at atthe the tue J LI-cees LI at T and tile the semina at olI nan and tile thc Jesuit college at it t. t In J 0 class of seventy aj cl tile the Ecole Pol Poly Poly- h he entered In 18 1871 1 lust fust after arter th tilO of tile the Pru war var h ha wits s graduated forty Marshal Foch married Mile me Tulle Julie They lla haQ two two- taugh tots tot's both of whom are married and anda a son on who was as among the first to fall In tle World war Twelve years ears later as Major T Foell 1 0 lie he returned to the var 01 college college col- col lege ItS as an Instructor Later he wOn wona a a. colonelcy and in 1907 became a brigadier general During hIs service service ser ser- vice as a teacher and later as commandant corn com mandant ot of Frances France's military school General Foch wrote a a. num- num her bei of technical books book Two of these works on the subject of warfare warfare war war- fare bOth ot of which were translated into German l n lIsh an and Italian were entitled of War ar arnd anti nd Tile The Conduct of War Var Major l flobert M. M r. r Johnson U U. S. S A. A wrote of hIm lie ITe was the great teacher who more thu 11 any rna man In tile the FrenCh alm army created tilO tha mode or of thought under which Its generals and staff entered tile the present Plent war ivar Classes of young oun officers or- or f cers sat at Fochs Foch's f feet e at t the e r L I its Guerre and carried awa away with them an unbounded ed devotion de and faith lie He was an enthusIast and Ills his patriotism and hb profession merged Into a effort of Intellect intellect In- In In which his students delighted de- de lighted One of his great reaf ambitions was to permeate the French army with the war college doctrine of the the offensIve offensive at all costs I was In command of the Twentieth th tha a a. a my lllY corps corp with headquarter headquarters head head- quarters quarter at Nancy at tile the ginning beginning of the war In 1914 and of all the tl subordinates of that OtIler great Marshal l his Continued on page e 8 section 2 |