GREAT WAR ECHO

Hokitika Guardian, 12 July 1932, Page 6

GREAT WAR ECHO

COMMAND Of AM ERI CAN TR 00 PS. LLOYD GEORGE WANTED CHANGE (United Press Association—By Electric . Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received this day at 11.15 a.m.) .v NEW YORK, Julyll: , Mi'/Newtoii D. Baker, - Secretary; for War. In the Woodrow Wilson has irevdaiediitliat Mrj;Llpyd Geprge, at 'ibne. Ytiirie ;;&ppareiitly>-desired |/Yhe ,removal; .(if General Pershing, as Com-mander-In-Chief of - |he American forces. /.. it O In a letter to Colonel Lloyd, 0. Griston, .officer to General Pershingf Wa' a war officer, Baker wrote that the war-time Premier, Mr *pojdgGeo|ge,- -at the ooinclusion offnjSirmer at Condon in 1918, with vehement emphasis, ; complained that the United States army in France -was of no service to the British at all in spite of the fact that Britain had stripped the necessary Empire ser•viceß of- ships in order to carry the United States, troops to . France, ■ and that they scarcely got to France be-, fore Pershingr pulled them away , from;, the British, into his own custody im another part,of the line. Baker had'-.replied that,- from-, his own observation on the front lines, he was convinced that the troops''were/af least, detaining there'many' German divisions. which might otherwise be*'-added to the concentration against French. The British' countered with an offer to discontinue' transportation of American soldiers ih British ships, and move only such forces as could be carried on American vessels.

Next morning Baker recalled that Lord Reading said: “Mr Lloyd George asked me to say to you that you should think no more about the matter which he raised for discussion last night at dinner.’ 1