Show 4 3 3 YANKS READY HAUt TO HAlT H N IV With Million in France and Many any New Ships U. U S S. Is Happy By John Edwin Nevin International News Servi Service e Staff Cor Cor- respondent t W WASHINGTON ASHI July TulY 3 Americas America's it Z troops will hold the line In the coming great German offensive on the westE western western- r front Ex Experienced army officers hero today expect that drive any day now 1 All reports indicate that HIndenburg j jand and are ready to strike I Whether it is s against the channel channel V 9 ports a as most experts b believe lIeve against 1 the road to Paris or at some point not publicly considered the allies are ready And no small part of ot the de defense de tense will be the task assigned to the r American forces t. t GERMANY WARNED I 1 That was the general interpretation T today placed on Secretary of War Val Bakers Baker's Fourth of July Tuly announcement that American soldiers tod i are overseas Designed especially show the American people that trust in the army has not been wa wa ing hig the announcement also gl gt warning on Germany that Preside Wilson's Wilsons promise of force to uttermost was no Idle threat months ahead of schedule today today military preparations of the go forward by leaps and boun that there will be more than 20 men across by the first of next y yM M MAKE KE FRONT SECURE We expect to make the w front absolutely secure this year next year to roll roil the Germans up up send send them back to their own frontlet frontier That was what Secretary Baker t tu the senate and house military commIttees committees committees commit commIt- tees some m months ago At that time there were many doubting Tho there Today there are none Thai Th I plain matter of ot fact tact statement has been proven by what has been done Is i. i I ably ohly an earnest of ot what may be ex exp cx- cx ex 1 p I MANY LAUNCHINGS Tomorrow the shipyards s of th country will launch deadweight tons of shipping This is as much as was launched in six months last year Chairman Hurley says Deliveries In Ia Inthe inthe the last week totaled tons or at the rate of ot nearly tons a a. aJ year What this means to the army array can cai hardly be overestimated Officers declared de- de dared that It means existing overseas troop movements will be far ex exceeded exceeded ex- ex in the near future and th that t no matter what Germanys Germany's submarine j oJ plans may be war materials wilt will move overseas in pace with troop shipments so that there will be e no nomore nomore nomore more lack of supplies than there Is atme of at me men |