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Show FRENCHMAN HAS ! PRAISEFOR U. S. WASHINGTON. April 26 "Send at once as many men as you can; build as many ships as your shipyards can turn out. and we will, all together, win the war." Edouard deBllly. deputy high commissioner. com-missioner. Just back from France, said this was the message he brought to the American people from the front. Materially, as well as morally. M. de-Billy de-Billy said the French army is in splendid splen-did condition and the long war with its great losses and trying periods, has affected neither quality. "I want to tell you," he said, "what a high opinion all the French officers who have seen yjour boys in the trenches, have expressed over the American men and soldiers I heard! thit unanimous pral.se from the commanders com-manders of our armies as well as from the Officers ol lower rank, neighbors Of your battalions un the battle line,! and I am verj happy to bring you this' message irom France." The action of General Pershing in1 puiiing the American forces at the j command of General Foch and the! pari played by the representatives of, ihe United States in obtaining the agreement to co-ordinate, which led: to the appointment of General Foch , as generalissimo, the deputy commie sioner declared, went to the heart of everv Frenchman Regarding the future, fu-ture, he said I will answer franklv (hat I look forward to the future with absolute confidence, notwithstanding the enor-1 ninus difficulties of the moment. and providing every one understands his duty towards our common cause. And your dut, Americans, is to make haste. "The collapse of Russia has allowed Germany to bring new troops to the' n itern front The are now outnumbering outnum-bering the allies The question of man-power man-power on our side is thus becoming the; vital point. Consequently, the train Ing of American troops and their transportation to the other side must be carried out on a scale unforeseen a few months ago.'" |