Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-11-09 | Page 1 | War Pace Too Fast for Men

WAR PACE TOO FAST FOR MEN Next Year Allies Will Be Facing Fac-ing Boys of 17 in German Ger-man Army. London, Nov. 9. (Correspondence of tho Associated Press.) The war threatens soon to become a struggle between mere boys. The pace Is said to be entirely too fast for the older men long to endure. It is declared here that next year the entente allioB will be facing boys of 17 in the German army. General Sir Douglaa Haig, commanding command-ing the British expeditionary forces, is said to have objected to tho sending out of men of middle age. He wants young men of from IS to 25. After tho latter year it is said the fighting value of the human unit shows a rapid and steady decline. The good soldier of today It seems must bo of the age which excels in the more strenuous athletic games the football player type. Tho older men have their place, but generally speaking It is said now to be in "the army behind tho army" the men back of the line, in the supply and trans port divisions where the strain is not so great. These older men are too Eusceptiblo to trench diseases to be of great use on the firing line. England already is registering boys born In 1899 preparatory to calling them up when they attain thoir elgh-teenth elgh-teenth year.