Show GENERAL ERAL GR A NT SAYS ARMY Is I 1 I 1 SMALL I 1 I 1 1 I D DECLARES ECLAr JES I 1 T B E OF NO USE IN aggressive WARFARE army and navy should be classed together and would be of use only for defense chicago dec I 1 general diederick Fie derick D grant speaking at a banquet of the I 1 st andrews so society clety here last night called attention to the remarkably small army of the united states lie ile said it would be of no use at all for aggressive warfare our navy and army should he be classed I 1 together in that they must work together in tho the event of war said he they would be of use only for defensive purposes because of their small numbers however we do not care to embark on any aggress he e warfare in the present ilay clay battles our salvation is found in the fact that we do not need such large lare numbers of so soldiers take trained soldiers and they can hold off tit an army of almost an any size in fact the greater the numbers of the opposing ar army my tho the greater the difficulty in approaching the smaller enemy |