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Show k ! BATTLE OF MARE IS j DESCRIBED By PRDF. BARKER tile. ! ThC part the American forces played In tho great offensive -which began ' March 21, "while comparatively unim- i portnnt, yet was of momentous signifi- Urtpfc ' cancc because It showed France and ' Vr England tho mottle of the American "v "i troops, and thoy then realized that they had a dependable ally, according j to James L. Darker of the University tT-V5' of Utah, who spoke last night to mem- -Swy 1 bors of the University club of Ogden &ki and their friends. England and France rf bad awaited eagerly a demonstration m y y. of the merit of American troops. They tfrJ Wore a little apprehensive, the Ameri- .v-gSj c.ins wore so comparatively raw and untrained Dut when they made the a. resolute stand which has boon recordist;.., record-ist;.., . cd, joy reigned among the allied com-fj'S com-fj'S j manders and thoy saw that America would probably be the great deciding ; factor in the war. renfc ; lurorv lal Professor Barker shatter shat-ter E- ' tored vn that concerning the supcr-fejtj supcr-fejtj ?- iorKy of German machine methods of isiME ;j ,,,, - a. vt n " - ' flghting and German strategy. Whenever When-ever an engagement had been fought whero numbers of men and supplies wore at all equal as betweon Germany and allied forces, the superior strategy strat-egy of the allied commanders was easily eas-ily seen, he said. Brains Not Better. "Inasmuch," the speaker continued, as the Germans have outnumbered outnum-bered the allied armies ever since the beginning of the war, yet have failed to reach their greatest objectives objec-tives in any of their big drives, makes it clear that the allied brauvs and training ar-.suporior; and when equality equal-ity of number and supplies ave secured, se-cured, what is to prevent the allies from getting to Berlin? Who is to bring about this equality? The Amcri- ( am engineers are even now engaged in getting out timber for the railroads that are to carry the 'allied forces into the Rhine valley and there is no ourr-tlon ourr-tlon that thoy will reach Berlin with Americans doing most of the fight:nj." Professor' Barker told of the cunning of Marshal Joffre in turning the Ger- j mans at the first battle of the Marne. The original plan of attack on Franco, 1 he said, was known to be through Alsace-Lorraine. Belgium was ncutml territory and France thought Germanv would respect that neutrality. The frontier around Alsace-Lorraine was fortified, therefore, for just such an , expected offensive. Now when the Germans started through Belgium, the French forces had been mobilized around this lower section and Marshal , Joffre was hard put to draw them up and mass them against the onrushing ' German columns. Orders Secret Army. I For three weeks tho French had j fallen back in face of superior numbers. num-bers. Joffre decided that he could not , risk a stand until everything was in i his favor the geographical location ot the country, tho forces at his com- , mand and tho supplies.- When he saw ! the German plan of invasion via Bel-1 glum he issued secret orders for the i mobilization of an extra army to the I north of Paris under General Maneury. The existence of this army was kept a secret. The forces under Von Kluck were attacking through Belgium toward Paris. The forces under tho crown prince were attacking Verdun the strategy underlying the, campaign being be-ing that Uie two forces should converge con-verge on Paris in a great pincers movement, ono from tho south, one from the north-Now, north-Now, Professor Barker said, tho French retreated until Scptemher 5, 1914, when Joffre gavo command that the line should be held between Verdun Ver-dun and Nancy. It was already held at Verdun and on September C, General Gener-al Maneury threw his fresh reserve army against Von Kluck at the Marne and turned the Germans in one of the most brilliaut battles of history. This battle, Professor Barker said, ranks among tho very few important battles of world history. Race to Scacoact. Von Kluck was forced o withdraw to the north in an effort to get around the French army and the French kept pace with him until the battle line was extended north to the sea. While this race for the sea coast was underway General Gallieni, military mili-tary governor of Paris, commandeered every motor bus and motor vehicle In Paris and sent the French 42nd division di-vision to the aid of Maneury, making it possible for him to keep up the timber tim-ber of his forces with fresh men. Thus, In a series of brilliant executions, tho French, outnumbered in a ratio of approximately ap-proximately SO to 101, wore able to fight the Germans to a standstill, and proclaim to the world that the much-vaunted much-vaunted German brains and military skill had been outmatched. Professor Barker sketched briefly the Russian campaign when the disorganization disor-ganization of that immense country started. The German offensive of March 21 was tho most disastrous and threatening threaten-ing which tho British and French i forces faced, he said. The Germans I had sedn that the old system of fight-ling fight-ling had failed- This was' to mass troops for an offensive directly behind j the front lines, to bring up big guns and supplies close enough so that they could be drawn back of the advancing columns and to prepare for au immediate imme-diate and intensive attack by having all forces right at the front. Thoy decided de-cided on a different plan. They massed troops about thirty miles in the rear of tho front lino and three days before be-fore tho attack was to be delivered marched them by night toward the front, keeping the movements of the big guns hidden by night. March Offensive. Then on March 21 they sent the famous fa-mous "wave after wave" formation against the. most vulnerable part of the allied line, the junction bchreon the French and British armies, where no one was in command. These tactics succeeded and the line 'wns again pushed back until the French armies could recover and rush In to support the hard-pressed British. This showed the allied commanders plainly that a unity of command was imperative and the designation of General Gen-eral Foch as commander-in-chief followed. fol-lowed. Tho route to Berlin, Professor Barker Bar-ker said, will be that which Napoleon mapped out many years ago. This will be for the allied forces to break through tho line where the American troops now face tho Germans, enter the Rhino valley and follow its course where the least natural barriers exist, ex-ist, to the capital. The American engineers aro even now engaged in getting out Umber for tho railroads which arc to carry tho allied forces into the Rhino valley, he said. oo |