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Show oo COMMENT OF A MILITARY EXPERT LONDON, April 10, The Times' military correspondent, discussing American participation in tho war, heartily Indorses tho apparent intention inten-tion of the American government to use the regular army and the national guard as a nucleus for the formation of a national army. He recalls what a serious disadvantage it was to Great Britain to bo compollod to throw her regular forces Into tho fighting lino in 1911 becauso of France's urgent need of help. "If the United States," he says, "careB to send a regiment or two to London or Rome to affirm tho solidarity soli-darity of tho allied cause, It would be a grateful and rightly appreciated act. Wo shall not misunderstand American action in tho least if we have to wait some months until her first divisions, well equipped and thoroughly trained, make their appearance in France. "Hastily formed and untrained levies are useless Our new armies in 1911 took nine months in forming beforo the first division had arrived In France, and this division took three months moro to harden in trench warfare war-fare before it could safely engago In a great attack. America may bo able to curtail these periods and send over a few divisions this autumn, but it will be hardly this year that America is adequately represented on tho battlefield. battle-field. Gormany certainly reckoned on this delay when she deliberately preferred pre-ferred the hostility of the United Statos to abandonment of ruthless submarine sub-marine warfare." |