Show t French Marshal Here To Attend Convention j Of American Amran Buddies Tumultuous Thousands Line Water Front While Guns Guarding Harbor Belch Roaring Welcome and Whistles Screech Acclaim to Visitor NEW YORK Oct 28 A A mighty might bombard of cheers greeted Marshal Foch today when he steamed Into NeWYork New NewYork NewYork York on the liner Paris to sit with his American buddies at their legions legion's convention In Kansas City Tumultuous us thousands lined the water front to welcome the gray haired haired little man soldier of France and citizen of the world word who had held the allies allies' cards In the great game of war and had turned the trick Up the harbor he came escorted by byfleet byfleet fleet destroyers and soaring seaplanes to to the boom of ot guns of forts guarding the harbors harbor's mouth great blasts from whistles afloat and ashore and resoundIng resounding resounding resound resound- ing cheers for the man who had o out out- tI t- t Napoleon a as asa a tactician I An hour earlier General Pershing commander of Americas America's millions of or I sons who did their bit in the world war had been greeted by a similarly enthusiastic as ic welcome The generals general's ship ship- the George Washington had raced to port In order that he might arrive in time tb participate In the greeting to When the famous allied commander Mars Marsha 1 Foch foch ashore shOr t the gen gen- r t as to gra hiS hand hand- handIs hant IS GRE GREAT T LECTURER Marshal Ferdinand nd Fo Foch h might well weil be called the fighting professor One of the foremost lecturers on milItary military mil mU- subjects in Europe he won hon honors rs on the early battlefields of the World war and in its last year as the supreme commander of an allied force of 00 men successfully practiced the strategy he had preached so many years ears ears In the French war college 11 The morning of of- November 11 1918 found him a a marshal of France sitting sitting sit sit- ting Ling In his p private car behind the lines smoking his his- pipe his pipe and waiting in the unnatural calm alm that followed the hushing of the big guns guns the coming of the he German envoys to ask for peace at I Ithe I th the allies allies' price The professors professor's theoles theories theo theo- rles ries of ot strategy and moral force torce- In warfare had been vindicated Foch fought in the Prussian Franco war var as second a lieutenant as did lid fre re They were both born in the south of or f France Foch worked for the rest of ofis his is life with the shame and humiliation humilia humilia- tion I nf of that debacle In his mind He lie studied the battlefields of that war un until until un- un un-I un til he knew them them- themas as well as his own owr backyard He studied the German war wai machine the psychology of Its leaders the reasons for their mistakes and their successes WROTE TEXT BOOKS Later as a professor of the war college college college col col- lege he wrote text books on on the conduct I of ot He Hc of war var and the principles war worked with enthusiasm and patriotic fervor to indoctrinate the young French Frencl I officers with the principle of the offensive offensive of of- ot- ot at all costs Battles are won morally as well as materially he said and he stressed the moral element clement In iii modern warfare I As a general commanding a force of ol I men Foch found himself op opposed opposed opposed op- op posed by a German army of men at the first battle of the Marne in 1914 As the battle progressed aides rushed to warn him both his wings were being pushed back We must attack at attack attack at- at tack In the center said Foch Order up the Moroccans The German cent center r composed of Prussian guards the flower of their army gave way under this unexpected onslaught and later airplane observations observations observations brought news to Foch of ot a gapin gap gapIn gapin in the German line He lie pushed In a wedge of ot infantry supported by heavy artillery and dawn found the Germans I In a panic and retreat DELIVERS SPEECH Aboard the boat boat which met were Theodore Roosevelt Jr assistant secretary of the navy G General W. 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D Connor Jul Jules s French ambassador ambassador ambassador am am- Gaston Liebert French cOnsul cOn cOn- sul suI general and Lieutenant Louis Van Ecke of the French Veterans' Veterans tion Foch as ho he landed gave out a greetIng greeting greet greet- ing lag to America He said It is a very great satisfaction for tor forme torme forme me to come here and meet again my American brothers in arms These soldiers whom I had the honor honor hon boa or to lead in 1918 on the battlefields of France brave dad And nd gallant In the performance performance per per- of ot the duties of or warP warr war I am now to have the deep pleas pleasure re to see displaying I In iii the work of ot peace the same qualities which made their strength and glory throughout the war It is likewise a aery very ery great joy tone to tome tome me ne to visit them In their homes where the they hey received the inspiration and train- train training ine ing which animated them so power power- fully ully But during my visit in the midst of the he living my thoughts remain with the he absent ones the brave soldiers of your our great country who gave their lives ives for tor our common cause May OIa nil all those who mourn their f J death be assured of ot my profound sY sYn sym n pathy Their sacrifice has not been In vala t It rests as the basis of peace of or 1 world for tor which we are working In III common today inspired by the s sam mt sentiments united us on the fields of or battle 1 |