Show I DRAFTEES 10 TO TRAIN JUST BACK OF OFen TRENCHES Men en Ent Entering ring Service N Now w to B Be in ip 11 France rance Soon 1 I By U lt d s. s w WASHINGTON ASHING ON May 14 Thou Thou Thousands sands of men called in the last two draft Increments will soon be on their way to France Trance Sq So rapid ha has the tho movement of American troops across the Atlantic become that soldiers who had no hope of active service within six or or eight months will perhaps per perhaps per perhaps haps be on the firing line this summer summer sum summer mer After two or three months elementary elementary elementary elemen elemen- tary training these nevi neww selected men will be given their finishing touches within sound of the enemy enemy's s guns and even under fire if the n need ed for men menIs menis menis is acute All reports from the cantonments army arm officers s said ld today te tell teil l of an n acceleration in the training work under under under un un- der good weather conditions Meantime the Imi impression gre gIe W here today that British politics had a hand in the mysterious Ottawa Ottaw statement state statement ment relative to using American troops only as a full individual army Explanation that the statement was due to an error only served to to accentuate the tho tho mysterY around it It The fact that the British ambassador was in the dark darl about the war committee committee committee com com- of th the British cabinet led t to the suggestion here that perhaps some follow followers ets of General Maurice or at least opponents of Lloyd George had had a hand handIn In In n tho the matter FRICTION WITH PERSHING The Incident also revealed here bere that the brigading pl plan n has not pleased American officers including General Pershing Relieving Believing them as it does of certain leadership the plan was accepted only as an emergency measure measure measure meas meas- ure and the war var departments department's s plan Js is to cull out the brigaded men as al soon as possible to be reformed and reequipped into divisional units Besides revealing this spirit the episode has tended to uncover a growing lack of entire team work b be between between be- be tween Pershing and the war department depart depart- ment Responsible authorities suggest that sooner or later latera later a showdown will come probably In the form of a test of strength strength between between General Pershing and General March acting chief of staff The brigading plan while Apparently fully and cheerfully acquiesced acq i in by Pershing is rep reported here notto not notto notto I to please him so so it would not he be surprising if the reformation of divisional divisional divisional di- di j s I visional units were undertaken at an early date |