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Show AMERICAN TROOPS i TO REPLACE LOSS I t i i WILL FILL UP RANKS OF BRITiSH J AND FRENCH DEPLETED IN GREAT BATTLE. Young Americans Are Keenly Anxious to Get Into Battle Without Delay and Are Expected to Play an Important Part. Washington. American troops are hastening to join in the fray with their French and British comrades. Formal announcement from London that these units would be merged with the allied war machines indicated to officials that losses of the allies would be immediately made good with vigorous vig-orous young Americans, keen for battle, bat-tle, and the stage set without delay, not only for a counter-offensive, but for aggressive warfare, without pause, until un-til the German invader shall not only be checked, but hurled back to ultimate ulti-mate military defeat. President Wilson has predicted that this will be the decisive year of the war. In the opinion of the military officers of-ficers here he has now taken the decisive deci-sive step toward making his words good. The power of American mnihood is to be brought to bear without .delay, not only in the American expeditionary expedition-ary army itself, but also in the fighting ranks of the allied armies. By this means, the effect of American intervention inter-vention in th war, it was said, will be doubled or even trebled, and in the coming days of the battle of battles, which may last for months, Americans by hundreds of thousands will play their part. Presumably, under the new plan of merging American units in the allied armies, and also because of the creation crea-tion of a supreme commander in the person of General Foch, it has been found advisable to provide for a uniform uni-form system of reporting military operations. oper-ations. Reviewing the ' meager information that has been available as to the great things that have been accomplished since the German drive began, many officials are convinced that Mr. Baker had been sent to Europe by President Wilson for the purpose of bringing about just the amalgamation of forces that has been effected. In urging single sin-gle command for the whole battle front in the west it was regarded as certain that the American war secretary would not have gone emptyhanded to the conferences. |