Show STill MORE YANKS NEEDED OVER S IN FRANCE Large Tracts of Terrain to toBe toBe toBe Be Covered by Allied Troops in West I L Jy y Lowell Mellett United Press St Staff ff I WITH THE HE AMERICANS ON TIlE THE BRITISH FRONT May 23 By courier Secretary Bakers Baker's statement that half a million American soldiers are in France Js is not hard to believe after a trip through h the British zone and andI President Wilsons Wilson's suggestion that the I number should not be limited to five I million or million-or or any other figure can figure can be le I readily understood S These remarks are inspired by a an an effort effort ef ef- ef- ef fort to catch sight today of only of the American units unIth now fold folded ed Into shape to be of service to he British Maybe they made a 3 tremendous tremendous dous impression as they marched home maybe the cheering crowds thought the line would never end but the corre- corre I attached to this particular I section ran a fairly high powered motor motorcar c car nearly to death crisscrossing highways highways high high- high I wa ways s and lanes and covering a terri tern I tory almost as large as a New England state without seeing more than a comI com com- I I t DaIlY or two I The division was engaged In maneuvers maneuvers maneu maneu- vers and rehearsing the everlasting lesson Jesson of how to get from one place to another with the least possible le agony It is a vast country and it will take vast numbers to make any impression A fearful summer dust storm made it di difficult to identify an approaching column as Americans The dust whitened whitened whitened whit whit- I ened and camouflaged the men as no artist could have done Only their I eyes showed any color They had been tramping for miles mUes but the column was intact the men were In step and there were no stragglers It would be too much to say they looked happy but they did look satis satis- fled fied with their job |