Evening Star Newspaper, October 24, 1921, Page 3

SECRETS. OF WORLD WAR b oE il TODAY M. TARDIE 1 ? { !¥E\LS TH ACTUAL I 1 'AILS OF THE AWFUL Inner Story Told| | Falis.qn i aviie, | TION IN THE GREATER BAT TLES OF THE WAR. THE STORY OR EFFORT. ALL P ESTIMATES WERE THE FiGURES ARE GERI 3 STORY IS ALL of How Francq | Met Boche. BY ANDRE TARDIEU. | Captain of the French army. French high com- missioner to America. Clemenceau's right | = i Band ‘st the ouference of Versailles. anks, and on | ; the day of the armistice 3400, Final N 1y. let’ me emphasize the point that CHAPTER VIIL .| this production for’ the needs ot the SHELLS! SHELLS! SHELLS:: | French army did not exhaust our ELLS: SHELLS manufacturing capacity, for we fur- The story of this prodigious eifort|nished our various allies with 7,000 has never heen written. guns. 10.803 aronian Thus, after three and war We had. in 1914, 2,696 De- pieces ¢ 73 and_invasion, we spite Joss and destruction, we had |lcnd the splendid American Army t % i ance without which their ent when hostilities ¢ As toj action might have heavy artillery, the supply rose from |nitely delayed. Not to 2.500 officers, the twenty. tion camps and the 13 beds placed at their disposal, nished the Americans with 4,0 4,000 acroplanes, 240 tanks. 4T 1815, in we increased our field per cent and our heavy 283 pieces in 1914 to In other words, artillery artillery by 1,943 per cent. One-tenth of this latter increase was obtained ) guns, Kept Her Force Up. by reconstruction of old pieces. nine-| On the day of the tenths by new construction. All our‘L“‘“‘“_ States Aruy s, then in line, wee had manuf artillery combined in 191t had less 1han five million shells. The monthly output at the end of the war exceeded mnine millions. So much for round figures. tured 100 per cont of th ¢ cent of the 1555, howitzers: 100 per) ceng of the tank<, 81 per cent of the weroplanes, 15 per_cent of the long | guns. All of the 75 and 155 shells Now for sed by the Ameri- @etails. In 1914, the production)can ardllery came from French f 5 AP {tories. Of the 14,000,000 tons of sup- of T5s was negligible and there | EST pon ey used in Europe, haif, was no regular service of repair. In | or 7,000,000, me from Fran October, 1918, our workshops were| Such was our material contribution. turning out, for t cal'ber alone,| What of our contribution in man 0 new tubes~and 573 repaired, power? Despite her low birth rate ew brakes and 195 repaired, 267 new | France did not hesitate before the carriages and 114 repaired To these | mortality of war and—by means of must be added shells, more shélls and artan system of mobilization even more shells. The battle of vs kept her forces up to the maxi- mum. umpagne and Artois in 1913, last- per cent—was obtained under almost hopeless conditions brought about by its maximum den front—1.293 battalio; fng two months, cost us seven and a| 3.781,000 men in August, 1911 vention adjourns. the might of No-|{ ialf million 75 shells—an average of | 4. men in Jul vember. | 121.000 a day. The battle of Verdun men in Juiy officials iressed id the Somme jn 1916—lasting ten i e e th the Hupmobile months t us' more than forty- beli the cos X Il Ahree million shells—an average| In November. 1915, we | vention. which opens October 31, will | 13z WIS e 1 g of 144,000 a day. The offensive of 1918, | more men In line than in be the greatest ever held. ple 1 it is the best car lusting four months, cost us nearly | yet our losses from the Strike Talk Not a Deterren GCittsiclass’ IRty osli. three million shells, an aver-ihad beem 2504000 mer Apparently the possibility of a rail W his | Killed, 740,000 severely wounded and = i e Poss 4 2 |'] © met this] 90,000 ' prisonera. | Throusnout road strike does not disturb the STERRE &FLEMING’ Inc. | e we borthe b o legionnaires. They are going ahead [N Champlain St. nt Knloramu Rd. Output Rises to 130,000 Daily. |my’s attacks on the western front.|With scheduled plans and predict a SHCIow IS8 Iateect) | T oisat ot ehells at the|e held threc-fourths of this front | larser attendance than at any pre- Phone North 5050 | O up to the spring of 19)7. At that time [ VIOUS convention. . - & 7 e ‘heginning of the war was theo-)the British army was facing forty s Pauline C. Curnick. national St A S e retically 12,000 a day—as a matter of | tWo GPr‘x;nan div mns.] the French hzt:’fnogl{‘h:- :_:'I\A‘rll :ux‘l‘i’: 2 S 3 o army eighty-two. Our lines. reduced |the le il { fact it was 6000. It rose to 150,000 | about ‘this time by fifty kilometers, |Orate preparations have be & day in October, 1915; to 173,000 In|was !ncrt;asn'd by another eighty kilo- | for the fl{:l*'r‘l;;'""'t’l"l.“‘;_{l l'li\‘-;ur A o S S Angust, 1916; to 203,000 in the fol-|Meters after the Germ honiGen | omen, A e prneInal s s | ours Convenient to Students. ving November: to’ 233.000 in May, | G0USI's army jn March, 1018 A S enon e * T e 1817, which level was maintained and; Germans Maintained Densits. | Baron Belgium, Call 1736 G st. n.w., or address even exceeded to the end of the war. | - 5 N e e 4 AT | T'p to the war of movement in 19 Emory, na- This increase of production—3783 { P Grmun wrmy alw 4 commander of the legion—will uto choc invasion. It is to the everlasting|Ngvemt 1.456 battalions out honor of our government, of OUr|of 2316 in February, 1917—and it was parliament and of our industry that|a] the French tor that bore they were able to achieve it, in spite of everything. But to the first weapon, the 75—|the first thirt the use of which was developed so (August, 1914, tremendously—it was necessary to!the number of enemy batta add the war weapons of modern war- | line, we figure the total fare, the 105 short. 155 long, 220, 270, strength depioyed as four on the 280, 370, 426. Here everything had | Belgian front. ‘it was eight on the to be built up from the bottom. Up |British fsont, twenty-two on the Rus- to the very eve Of war experts had!Sian front and thirty-five on the discussed the question of quick firing | French front. heavy artillery in scientific papers to] I have told our industrial effort and no result. When war broke out wes0Ur human sacrifice. There remains Tad 104 pleces of quick firing 175, | the story of our French genius. I am and that' wae al). But follew the mot one of those small-minded “xpenditures from baitle to Battle:) Frenchmen who believe that, in order Champagne and Artols in 1815 (twoilo be great, France must needs be . oful. 1 have vs said that months) cost us 510.000 rounds of Ungrate il s R S France could nét have won without 20, £ e on. 1 or 800 4 day. Verdun and the Somme | NST allies. and 1 hEysTalways in 1916 (ten months) cost us H ithout France rounds of 135 ern front. -, taking the 17) and | lions in German | 0, to i recognize that 4 could not have waged the war. 413.000 rounds of 220, or 1343 T not thesright to add that besi The Aisne. in 1917 (two months). ¢ost | her contribution in war material us 2,700,000 rounds of 155, or 45000 {her contribution in man power, 3 27.000 rounds of 220. or 5900 a day. For the offensive of 1918 tne expenditure reached Tounds of 155, or 54,416 a day. a day. and France made the splendid contribu- { tion of her genius? The war full of 0,000 ! surprises was pregnant with its own lesson. sgecess came to those who | o { from thi esson were able to un- i e | riddle their course of action. s heavy expenditure of heavy o shells, as in the case of the 758, was | No Cut-and-Dried Doctrine. completely covered production,| No cat-and-dried doctrine stood the The daily. output of 1535, which did'test of events. The doctrine of t not even exist in September, 1914, had | war shaped iiself from day to day in xrown to 3,600 in September, 1915, to|the turmoil of accumulated happen- 30,000 in October, 1916, to 39,000 iniings, reserving the crown of victory July, 1918. The output of 220s rose!to him who could co-ordinate its ever from 460 in September, 1915, to 2100 changing denands. But whether for in September, 1916, and to 3,400 in}artillery—strategic T barrage | April, 1917. The total increase was |fire, plunging fire. nize-find- 2.782 per cent for the 75s, was 983,ing, signalinz; wh r infantry:} per cent for the 1535 and 639 per cent | transformatin of equipment for the 220s. And all this, T repeatization of mission: and insist, was after_invasion had | terrain, accympai robbed us of about §5 per cent of |celeration o rel 2 - our pre-war iron and steel metallur- | filtration; passage througi®the lines. Eic resources. defense by withdrawal to second line It we take into aceount other sizes | positions—France during the whole than the 75 the 155 and the 220, we|War was the laboratory of the pow- have during the last period of the!€rs. Nothing was more natural; for, war a total daily production of 330,- | under the cruel str of defeat we | 000 shells, and for the entire war a thad more deeply studied thes total production of 300,000,000 pro-|lems. How could one Jectiles. it was a French mind that conceiv I do not want to prolong this enu- and carried out the stratesic plan | meration. Let me merely add that, in whick led to final victory: that sub- | Btember, 1911, our armies had 140 | stituted for local and intermittent at- x.::"op]am—s in action, and that in Oc-|tacks which had wasted both sides ! for four years the gemeral and con- tgber, 1918, they had 3,609; that at = 18 beginning of the war we were |linuous attack along the whole front producing sixty-two a month, and at|How could one mnot write herfillhl-( The end 2,068, T note that in Decem- | name of Marshal Foch? Von Kluc SPECIAL NOTICES ___SPECIAL NOTICES. L g =7 v {1 WILL NOT BE DI FRASK fise oo | bills_vnlexs contrac sts! now., bas opened | KOBERT % = dentsie b o offic 13th st. (Pope bidg.). | PRIVATE YACHT Cl 0 FLORIDA Fhone Main S67. Main 2233, Address Box 1! ar affice. 2 - For_THE | GFR TRUCKS LEAVE WZSHINGTON FOR ING | Philadelphia and New York . 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