| Show i. i f to M l J ir t t J ii 1 11 1 r I. I I I j tj t p.- p. rL j 1 t l ji j j v i W r 1 v il Ir SALT Si J AT L CITY CITE I o to r. r rY r t 4 Y Is S Foch the h c Man on Horseback n f Adored Yet Feared Pea ed by Prance France I 4 1 fr fry I y I 1 i f t t r r. r Commander o of the Army o of v 1 the North ors an and Master aster Strategist He a Won on the ther trie trier r ti r Battle of the Marne and J. J V r Later Blocked the German Gernan Ger- Ger er man nan Adv Advance nc on Calais Calais- Now the Hero o of the H Hour in Wh Whose J Irresistible v our In ose ble S Statesmen e Popularity See M nace Parlia I. I a Menace to ar to 1 men mentar ta ry G Government t. t If i ti k e 1 By N. N HALL I r FRANCE F RANGE fears a Man on Horseback I I That is wh why Joffre Jore Is Gene Gene- to lo When the the Gov- Gov chose him as head of the army armr it was was not only because of ot his 1 won wonderful organizing ability and great grea tena tenacity but because they wanted a aman man who ho in the e event nt of ot war could lead the armies armlee of ot the to I 7 tO tory tort 1 without danger ot of his becoming I 1 dictator c IL Joffre Is above aboe all a m modest eat retiring lt man of science an and there thera is nothing of the dashing hero her about him He is great in spite of ot militarism not be be- c ca ause se of It When he has won the war war cor t for or the allies he will go fishing Almost Al- Al m most Sost jest an any other othe French rench General you could name would almost certainly b be made President of Fr France nce 1 see lee so little about j I S That is la why you other French Generals Ge Gen Gen- er s in print s 's unless never uever indeed 4 t j I t the they they- are wounded c C r 1 or ar r have been Apt api Ap- Ap J t fr j i jA A Apol pol pointed ed to Lo some outside f command the immediate battle 5 line p in to F Franco France anco 1 The other d day r wh when n King George L conferred the Grand io S J I Cross Croes of the Order of tho tho Bath on oni i a JoUre Joffre the same me mel t high military distinction dis- dis die dis Uon was vas given liven givens l' l J s to Foch All AU the available information n about q Foch that had found itself In II- print watt waa that that his name w win was a Ferdinand that tha he tie her r S bad had Been seen six forty sears sears' year service In th French Army and had had been through r two campaigns t DurA bur Dur- ur- ur 7 A 1 trig lug the present r war var a y y tie he lie had bad rep repelled violent attacks made madeL L i f by the enemy against the Fr French i centre finally r T i ing them back by a t I. I offensive vigorous mo m 0 e m on t. t The TheL L S. S J Journal had hadR R v praised his hi remarkable remark mark mark- J able kIU In Inman man 3 r his energy t and his tenacity 1 rK Joffre had referred a t td him him as a. the theS S strategist ln tn ir Europe And i bat t was waff If about all aU the the Information n t 0 rOm a 0 n nI available I j Now fow who J Is la Foch Fo T b. b J i. i V t r t yoc pock oc IJ tho rho tn man aan mans s i I r 7 r who who ho won the Battle BattleS S r I. I j of ot the Marno and w who o prevented th the e Germans from through gh to Calais He is in command of ot the armies armies ar ar- mies of the North and operates co with Field Marshal French and King Albert In carrying out Joff Joffe's plans re's plans from to th the sea Gen Foch was born on Oct 2 2 1851 and Is just lust three months older than Joffre Like his chief he is a mountaineer moun mountaineer and a southerner This accounts accounts accounts ac ac- counts for the flery fiery temperament the swift impetuous d decisions of ot Foch och but he be is a man of or admirable self self- control and never neer allows his emotions to show on the surface In manner ho hoIs hois Ils Is quiet and reserved reseed almost If not noi quite as taciturn as ae Joffre himself After Afton 1870 when Foch fought as a sub-lieutenant sub ot of artillery he was sent abroad and did IUd good service in the tho col col- onles onies His first real promotion came camo camoin in 1877 when he was made a captain for distinguished services in the field Then he was called aUed back to France and and andl made professor of military tactics at athe at atthe the he War Sel School riol Five Five years oars later ho hovas hovas vas was vas taken ba back k with his regiment as battery commander and then Colonel As soon soon as he reached the rank ot of Brigadier General Foch was sent Bent back bick k to the War Var Office Offie and given one of th the e I most important and and confidential postin posts post s I In the French Army He became DIrector Director Di DI- DIrector 1 rector of ot the Ecole de Je Guerre and had d 1 j special charge of tie the e artillery equip equip 1 ment meat of or the Fren French Army Arroy In Indeed teed i Foch m more re than han any other man Is re responsible re re- for tor the long lons- and during during dur dur- ing InS his tenure of ot office the organization tion ot of the Ute great arm and nd ammunition factories of ot the Creusot was immense immensely ly 17 improved by his suggestions It Is is s I said that he oven worked worked there as ns a I common laborer to g gel g i better acqua acquaint acquaint- nt 1 a 4 1 3 7 s I t f I en Focht rho IT koa bom sea calls calli the thc Mm in In e. e j I I 1 1 j i I I I i j 1 e ed with the routine and organization of ot the plant A very strict disciplinarian Foch Foeh is beloved of his men He Ho treats them like human beings and although ho he Is le levery vel very severe on shirkers ho he Is liberal In rewarding re effort and merit wherever over ever he finds it He has time and again declared in his lectures that the prest present present pres pres- ent eat w war r ras was as inevitable and he was ready when It came When the Germans swept on toward Paris in the early part of September 1914 and the French Government had fled to Bordeaux It was Foch who found the weak spot between en the armica armies armies ar ar- mies mica of Von Kluck luck and the Crown Prince when he cut to pieces the army of Von Bulow Just at the right moment moment moment mo mo- ment he threw a wedge In between th the Prussian Guard and the tho Saxon troops and the German commanders were forced to change their plans Joffre seized ached the tho opportunity and ordered a general advance If they could not adI ad ad- ad j I I vance they were to die where they j I stood but not another foot of oC French territory was to be yielded to them The Invaders were halted and then thrown back to their present positions on the Aisne Six weeks later when Antwerp had bad fallen and the gallant Belgian Army I was making its stand on the with I 1 the famous Seventh Division of ot the 11 I British Britten Cavalry holding the freshly dug trenches at Ypres Foch rushed the French Tenth Army Array to the rescue just in the nick of time Ume The invaders were thrown back across the tho at atI the sluice gates were I opened thousands of or Germans were drowned and an impassable barrier of flooded marshes placed athwart the ther r road ad to Calais It would have taken far less than these two great achievements to fire the imagination of or the tho French nation I Fochs Foch's name vas gas on every tongue just justas as Paus Pau's had been when he made the dash Into Alsace Although the French met defeat before Mulhouse and at Metz the daring darinS' blow struck to recon recon- quer q the lost provinces so 80 enthused the French people that P Pau u able military leader as he is Is wa sent to St. St P Peters eters burg burs on an Important mission For France feared a Man on Horseback Again in Fochs Foch's ea ca case e e. e France fears a Man on Horseback If anything were to happen to Joffre to-day to the demand damand for Fochs Foch's appointment to the supreme command would be irresistible and it might have ha the direct political conso- conso j Why Is It that a victorious French General should be considered such a menace menace enace to the civil powers Let history history his his- history tory answer France Is a military nation Every Frenchman Fre serves selves in the army and Is nurtured upon Its past glories On every page of or European history from I Charlemagne to Joan of or Arc and from Louis XIV to the Great Napoleon the record of ot French valor shines In victory victory victory vic vic- tory and through defeat When the strai strains B of ot the called the French nation to arms a year ago ngo each mans man's soul leapt to the great sacrifice and It it will not bo be strange if It with peace restored In the hour bour of ot victory I the soldier who again becomes a citizen citizen citizen citi citi- zen shall honor those thos who have led him in w war r. r The Tho French Republic can cau never forget forget for tor get that after the great great Revolution Re It was saved from a return to to monarchy monarchY by the tho army Ever since tho the famous day o of of re the of O October tober 1793 1795 when the French rench Republic Republic Re Re- public was perpetuated and Barras sustained by the armed forces of the Convention under an ar artillery officer I who was to become the Great Napoleon Napo Napo- leon there has been In France Franco a tendency tendency ten ten- dency to exalt the army at the expense expense expense ex ex- pense of ot the civil authorities It Is curious that just like Napoleon Foch is an artillery officer and a born strategist Liko the great Emperor I he be applies to military science the things that made great In politics speed decision n. n and unity of ot control And do not think that the day of the theMan theMan Man Inn on Horseback has passed It Is not so BO Only a few Cew short y years rs ago in times time's of oC peace pence a G General who who who- and here Is another coincidence held coincidence held the same place In the French War Office Of or I fice flee as Foch did did he he was Director of or ortho I the tho de Guerre Guerre camo came very verT near Dear I himself dictator ot of France Who does not remember Boulanger and his black charger In 1887 It It looked very much after tho the belo bele I Incident as aa through France would turn once mere more to a Man on Horseback Horseback Horseback Horse Horse- I back to lead her out of or the quagmire of ot party politics and opportunism Into which she hay hail ha If It Boulanger had been really tho the great man that tho the French imagined he ho was Instead of ot a weakling who fled tIed tho country only to kill himself upon the grave of his affinity parliamentary government would have fallen before tho the sword Wilt Will It ever over fall taU again That Is the question which French rench statesmen are asking themselves and because they know full well the tho danger the they suppress suppress sup sup- pre press s hero worship in every way They can never forget torget that when parliamentary parlia- parlia g for or f there has never been a a. true democracy In France fell fell before the sword once before before- It was on the of ot Brumaire the I of ot November 1799 the day when I Murat led the way through the corridors corrIdors corridors cor cor- of ot the palace at St. St Cloud to the and levelled bayonets ended tho the existence of ot the tho Council of oC Five Hundred the Hundred the d-the tho inevitable sequence was the Man on Horseback Now as then the French people as a whole love Franco first and the tho Republican Republican Republican Re Re- publican form torm of ot government after atter- ward The da day may como come when republicans republicans re reo re- re publicans will wUl vote as they did fd In the great plebiscite by v votes to only 2669 that for tor the tho safety of ot France Franco the Government of ot the Republic ReI Re Re- Republic I public is confined to an Emperor who takes the tho title of ot Emperor of ot the i French 1 |
