Evening Star Newspaper, May 6, 1929, Page 16

16 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGT( IN, D ¢, MONDAY, MAY 6 1929, DRILL REGULATIONS ASSALED BY FOCH Useless in Time of Danger, Marshal Declared, Citing Battle of Marne. Commandant late M 5 Tal 38 conversations w ed the al incorpor of “Fock Written e: North An In the Chateau de pivotal point of t in xhr- first Battle ‘r . the tion e, which tered, but still stand. ing, tower, one had a view of the whole panorama of the battle. vas here with Humbert; with our es we could follow the ])Mguu( of the contest.” Pointing indicated Toulon-la-M distance; and, woul Oyes, and tk so many Morin, that one , Rouves; defended; Germa: Lives Struggle Over Again. Before the panorama_the marsk #tood in meditation. He lived the struggle over again. k. ‘whi time begin? T’m m:; cato phrases as if he were giving ord He moves from one point to anothe searches the horizon with his glance; the working of his thoughts betrays itself by the abrupt, unfinished, but | powerfully suggestive, disjointed phrases. | A single word calls up a whole situa tion. A mere gesture explains the bat- tle strategy. Every moment the ma shal appeals to the unfailing memo: of his C. G. “Weygand! was it not | Blondelat’s Bnmdo which fell back on | Allemant?” “Did you not have six German army corps against you?” . . . “Yes, that is 0. d the nm»k' | Regards Feats as Simple Tasks. So far from feeling at all vain about his early feats, he seems to regard all | that he did as perfectly simple. “On the Marne? Yes, that went de- cently; we put up by no means a bad show.” | Yet his modesty is not complete self- effacement, and when necessary he can claim that he was of some importance, even though he makes the claim in his characteristic manner: “We did not make too many blunders!” The marshal was no more disturbed | by the memory of that drama, of which he was the hero, than he was long ago by the drama itself. With befitting gravity, he contemplated its fiuctua- tions in an objective spirit which made him prefer the satisfaction of the re- sults achieved to _the joy of victor: its own sake. Instead of Ve himself with comp]acenc), he anal\z(‘d himself consciously. On this pedestal of Mondement the marshal appeared before us in the stature of a giant. We looked upon him | in no ordinary light. ‘Wife Plies Him With Questions. Amid the silence of this inclosure, once filled with heroic combat, an al- | most physical discomfort sweeps over | you from the testimony borne by the | sun and enforced by its rays, which are | as fierce and oppressive as in those days of 1914. With no attempt to hide the emotion magnified by her pardonable pride, Mme. Foch, anxious to learn and curi- | ous to see all she could, plied him with | questions. It was no time to go down to the famous marshes of Saint-Gond, a long and narrow belt of half-dried ponds | covered by treacherous grasses, in | ‘which one sinks, once off the track of & few causeways which run across it. On the banks of this depression on the 6th and Tth of September, at the price of unparalleled efforts, the 9th Corps held its ground against all as- saults. We went slowly along, with pauses memorable for some feat of heroism or painful memory. Near one dip in the ground he said: “Whole battalions plunged into this in the belief that they had found a shelt It was a furnace. They melted Ll wax.” Bridge Guarded at all Costs. Again, after crossing a tiny bridge, never dreaming of the part it played. h told us, “That was the only crossing. We had to guard that at all cos Corpses piled up in heaps, witness to the severity of the struggle. It became ‘impossible.” Then at Alnizeux, “A battalion took this village by storm, but had to aban- don it.” So at Bannes he explained. “That's where Gen. Besse, with his ar- tillery, stopped the onset of the Ger- man guard.” All these feats of arms, even the dis- deserved a tribute of re- spect. sacrifices were not use- less, any more than the others which were occurring in the very same hours along the whole front.’ Yet at the actual time of occ they might have seemed so, since on all sides the situation looked hopeless the obstacle had been crossed, the sienemy shelled the rampart of Monde- ment and threatened to overthrow it or 10 turn its flank through the open_door at Fere-Champenoise. But Gen. Foc h, with unshakable t ty, lost heart, because he willed h( to lose heart, “When beaten I s ‘I shall be beaten for fou days if necessary, but I omain in being.” That was nee | which expressed the affectionate grati- | him; | his headquarters, despite bad news, there need, If the enemy was atiacking with this ate energy, it was' because he > necessity of a success on his in order to save his disorganized wing. ‘The officer commanding the 9th Arm: let himself be hypnotized by local accidents: he saw the mpaign in its entirety and judged accurately. "I said to my troops, the extreme lmit of and o i o order ¢ s D which “The Germans their efforts; surprised at igns_among ong to the side s th rer”” And I gave order 1o attack whatover meantime we also had reached r apenoise. (Whenever one of aid La Fere-Champenoise the mar- 1 corrected him with, “Fere-Cham- penoise.”) Almost at the same hour on the 9th of August the last preparations r the last counter-attack were carried . Weygand was on the s ganize it. It was due to s 15m. “The G. O. C. 9th Army insists with the utmost urgency that the of- fensive which he has laid down shall ed out in the most energetic Kept Enemy at Distance, ty, firmness k did not achieve ny more than that of the but at least it kept pectful distance. The m'mmg its ;. . Septe mlr 10, the perserverance of the G. O. C. 9th Army was rewarded by_the capture of Champenoise. The entr which he made on that day in the afternoon was for him (IW £ ign of success. He was v to show us the first tow n back. “You remember, Weygand, the state in which Hl!‘ Germa left it. It stank. But we were extremely glad about it we?” And he took us along to n_hall to find the spot where he passed his first evening of victory. “Weygand B\"d I went to sléep on ‘There W a ter- “\ could he: people 1d_down that wooden stair- ver our heads. 1 morning they came and distu 1 me that I had been ap- rand cofficer of the Legion I replied: ‘What do you out. th: Just mo Let me sleep. It was cold: it was i vain we put on all our coats; we were rozen all the same * * * But no one brought any news.’ Dingy Shed Hides Fame. Instead of the traditional glorious re of a setting sun empurpling with s the flags captured from the we see a dingy shed where in the cd me to pointed The marshal could not stop to pay much attention to the anecdotal side things. He preferred a bird's-eye of the whole to details of the zgle. And how, on the banks of the Marne, could be refrain from talking of the commander in chief of the French Armies, “Papa Joffre” (the marshal, when speaking of him, like every one else, used the familiar term ’.\ldt‘ of the whole nation). “He was extraordina His charac- ristic quality was a very sound judg- at. But he did nothing on his own initiative. He must have things pro- posed to him, have a plan prepared for he could make others work; he himself weighed up and decided. He never had anything in front of him on his desk, not a file, ot a map; he never wrote. He did not say mtch, nothing made him move an inch, AL one time He remained always the same! He was a tower of strength. Joffre Preserved Calm. “On August 27 the situation was really agonizing. Dangers on_every han We were in the dark! But he preserved his admirable calm. His ex- ample carried weight. Around him at was little anxiety, still less panic! Only a calm and placid atmosphere, in which decisions were taken cooll “Then it was really he who won the battle of the Marne?” “Certainly, it was his doing. He had made preparations for it he simply | translated them into fact. . He had |grasped that the action ad begun | badly, so he susepended operations while he corrected mistakes and repaired weaknesses. He reorganized the higher coramand, altered the distribution of his forces and then awaited the moment, for energetically_resuming the offensive he intended. “The battle of the Marne was cer- tainly a great victory. . . . Joffre was the rizht man in the right place; he knr\\ now to avoid the knockout. . . And, further, he saw eye to eye with the government. “Then what about Game‘n Mistakes Must Be Weighed. “Gallieni? moment to strike had come. who wanted to retreat to the Seine, de ferred to his opinion. same, it was Joffre who took the de-|first bridge and formed up ‘en cercle’ no one|with a cavalry corps. * * would have ftaken the blame for the T arrived I asked him ‘What! | cision. If he had been beaten, not had him in 1914, I don't know what | would have become of Uis.” “One must see mistakes to avoid re- Ttaly in 1859 they simply forgot every- so delighted were they to have | Ingrown Nail | Turns Right Out! Pain Stops Instantly! ’ is a harmless antisep- tic manufactured for chiropodists. However, anyone can_ buy from the drug store a tiny bottle con- taining directions. 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