Show FRENCH WAR BOOK DISCLOSES PHASES OF LAST CAMPAIGN I t N Revelation ev l That T t. t General Pershing and Marshal t Foch er Always ys s in Agreement on n v A All r Details of Operations of-Operations I Ily By ly N Newton on C. C Parke International Staff Correspondent Correspond nt ARIS June The I.-The 1 The revelation that Gen General ral P Pershing frequently clashed PARIS pAlUS P with Marshal Foch and nd insisted that his views regarding the activities of or the American army in France be respected Is contained in in the thee new book F Foch ch's s Battle by Raymond Re a noted military writer M. M was given ghen access to official French documents for tor the compilation of his book and the contents may be accepted as authentic The book Discloses also that at the Senlis conference in November 1913 1918 when the mUi military ary tern terns s of or the armistice were being drawn up up Marshal Haig Halg commander pf the British army suggested milder conditions than those thos e subsequently agreed upon anon General Pershing supported Marshal Foch and aud Marshal Petain who ho contended that Germany was was not not et 1 yet tit tit- completely Beaten The result result was wa's as more more drastic terms for tor Germany including occupation occupation occupation tion of ot the Rhine bridgeheads FOCH MAINTAINS PLANS Following a series of minor incidents incidents incidents inci inci- dents M. M I. I reports that In the midst of the Argonne battle two American generals visited Marshal Marsha Foch rand and informed him that considerable considerable considerable consider consider- able losses were were being sustained by bythe bythe bythe the Americans Marshal Foch was wa Vas asked sl ed if if he did not wish to change his plans in view of ot the gravity othe o othe of the American casualties The generalissimo generalissimo generi gener gener- replied that he did not i Believing that the Fra Franco American American co-American It offensive was not progressing satisfactorily satis satis- Marshal Foch sent Marsha l Petain Pet ln to regulate t the e details General Genera Pershing immediately called upon Marshal Foch and informed him hini that tha he Pershing wished to receive orders or orders orders or- or ders only from Foci Foch himself like theother the theother theother other commanders ot ol the allied armies in France The generalissimo yielded to General Genera Pershing's wishes in the matter PLANS OF CAMPAIGN On A August 31 1 1918 18 sa says s 's M. M r. r Re Re- coul couly General Pershing notified Marshal Marshal Mar Mar- Foch that he would not adhere e I to the gener generalissimos generalissimo's plan tor for th the e j I Argonne since such a double camI campaign cam- cam I Implied dispersion of or American America n units General Pershing contended that he must abandon either the St St. assault or or the Argonne attack Marshal l Foch replied that th the Argonne Argonne Argonne Ar Ar- gonne attack must b be carri carried d out even if it the attack against the German German German Ger Ger- man salient at t St. St 1 was was' aban aban- AMERICAN AMERICAN WILL TO WIN I It was finally finall agreed that eight o oten or orten orten ten American divisions ns should attack at St. St while the American I army should be used as a unit in the offensive in the Argonne north o of Verdun as General Pershing desired M. M freely admits that the Americans on the Argonne front with the French at their left Jelt faced the most difficult tas task that any of the allied armies in the final tiDal advance of or the war because they were opposed to the pivot of or Germ German n re- re M. M I. I recounted some of or the obstacles acles beor before the before the th A Americans eri a s but I says sas even If it the doughboys were unskilled in the science of ot warfare they awa always s 's desired to go ahead and were determined to advance a against any odds |