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Show BAKER TALKS ON TRIPJOFRANCE Spends Morning With House Military Committee Giving Confidential Report. Y ASHINOTON, April 23. Secretary Secre-tary Baker gae the house military committop todav a confidential report on his trip to thp battle fronts He spent the morning with the committee commit-tee in executive session, going over the situation. "You can say," he announced as he entered the committee room, "that I dm here just for an informal talk on the conditions as I found them in France. I am not going 10 bring up the question of the size of the army, or extension of the draft age. ou can go as far as you like in the matter of unified control of the allied forces and in the sanguine and confident belief on the success of the war." Members of the committee were present vn force as it was the first meeting oi the secretary with any congressional con-gressional committee since his return. I ""spite his announced intention not to bring up the question of the size of' the army, Chairman Dent and his colleagues col-leagues were curious as to the secretary's secre-tary's views along this line and were disposed to accept his recommendations recommenda-tions The army appropriation bill has been held up for months to await the secretary's return The secretary's recommendation rec-ommendation will bp made soon and the war department is already preparing pre-paring them. Representative Shellenberger of Ne braska has prepared a bill to extend thp draft age from ol to 40 but has deferred de-ferred pressing it until hp can ascer j tain the secretary's views. |