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Show WILL SEND GREAI ARfrtEUROPE AMERICA ANSWERS CALL FOR FIGHTERS AND WILL RUSH ARMIES TO THE FRONT. Will Offset Russia's Defection by Dispatch Dis-patch i n g Every Available Man as Rapidly as They Can Be Mus-tered Mus-tered and Trained. Washington. An engagement by the United States to send a great army against the Germans in time to offset the defection of Russia, was disclosed Wednesday through the publication by Secretary of State Lansing of a review of the work and recommendations nf the American mission which recently participated in the interallied war conferences con-ferences at Paris. American fighting men are to cross the Atlantic as rapidly as they can In-mustered In-mustered and trained. France arn! Great Britain on their part undertake not only to join in providing snips to carry them, but to see that any it ficiencies in arms and equipment arc made up on the other side. This was one of the great decision--reached at the conferences thrnu;l, which the co-belligerents plan to po. ! their fighting resources and move a; a unit toward driving the Germans as! their allies out of conquered teni-tory teni-tory and crushing the Teutonic worti domination scheme. There is to be co-ordinated effort m only in fighting on land and sea, bir. in production at home and in the va-: ship-building projects upon which depends de-pends the vital problem of maintainit: uninterrupted transportation in s.:c of submarines. Even before Colonel House and hi? associates of the American niissiw reached home, the machinery to spen up war preparations here had been in motion. In this latest announcement is sen the explanation of the reorganization of war department control embraced in the formation of the new war coua.:! of general officers, of renewed effort to speed up the shipping board's merchant mer-chant building program, and posslMj of the decision of the administration : take over all the nation's ntilnu-h without waiting for action by coriirre--. Other indications of the new pre--tire are manifest, but cannot be di-cussed di-cussed publicly for military reason. It can be stated authoritatively. hoi-ever, hoi-ever, that definite steps to make goo; the pledges given to the allied leadrv by Colonel House already have bet: taken. The first recommendation of tt-mission tt-mission is for "entire military. nav;! and economic" unity of action netwer the powers opposed to Germany. TV is regarded as having been accr--plished. The summary of the military o: ferences attended by General Bi;;-shows Bi;;-shows that an agreement to "pool sources for the mutual advantages c: all" was entered into. |