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UiiX(VLOIlNINGfrDi:CEitDERf7102G.. Milll PIECE :1!.lT0ftlffi1F Om "of Most ; Difficult Tasks ..to. Confront Late.'Presi- . 'dent -Says Daniels; ."J IXDIANAPOLIS.ajt.. Dec. 6. f5pcial.) President Wilson's re pRated ; difficulty in .. getting his .proposals of strategy 'in prosecut ing tthe World war accepted by the .British Jis revealed in an article- Jvk Josephus ' Daniels.seeref ary of the nary dnrinsr the wnr" nrtntorf (ln the December issue of tne"Am- erican Legion Monthly. The "article is captioned "Wil son,, Master Strategist, and is re plete with, inside official .informa tion on questions of ?itl import during the .conduct of the war when 'decisions meant success or disaster for the allied forces. 1 "The: World war was the : first great conflict which produced no military leader who emerged crowned ' with laurels and con gi atnlaled as victor' and ready to bo acclaimed aa something of a super-man by his soldiers and his countrymen," the article begins. "Why the exception?) It was not because there were not great sol diers In' each of the 'allied nations. Better 'trained generals never led cohorts to' battle. The answer is that the far-flung battle line from the North Sea to the Medlterran lan and trench warfare -made per sonal leadership impossible. Sol diers did not know their generals. There was no Intimate touch. Declaring that Wilson's peace ful penetration and his Fourteen Points had more to do with the signing of the armistice than any thing except the landing of 300,- ,6u0 men monthly in France -which insured the needed fresh strength Q the Unconquerable , armies of he allies.? Daniels calls Wilson a 'xrllitary strategist as well as the c ice v that made the war. a holy war a 1 war in which a -nation fad dedicated Itself to righteous ness. " lie sajrs that ' from the day the fJerman array entered Belgium, :WHson kept trace of all the army -irud naval movements of the forces at war, and his studies had made him no mean strategist. -sThere - were two plain courses, as he often pointed out to me, that should be followed by the British navy the article reads, "which f declared showed a strange lack of strategy. As the, news would come to 'the-'Increased and in creasing " sinkings of merchant ships by U-boats, he asked me more - than once 'Why don't the .British convoy their merchant ships 'and thus protect thejn from submarines? And I would point out, the reasons presented by our naval attaches and by the British. The admiralty said It took too many! ships, and there was more danger of injury to ships sailing close, together Without lights than -wailing separately. - 1 "I also told him that the cap- tains, of British merchant ships -objected tp the convoy, preferring to take their chances on their awn. , He scouted these reasons, which he called 'timorous excus es' and when he learned that cer tain of our able naval officers took the same -view, he felt that they had fallen under the spell of sticking- to 'the doctrine of extreme prudence that was Inexplicable to him.. "When the United States en tered the World war, even though a, few Influential admirals ' prefer red the falling . separately the United, States navy put the convoy system in operation and the Amer ican naval representatives In Lon don took strong grounds In advis ing the admiralty to adopt the convoy system, and pledged Amer ican destroyers and Cruisers to aid In furnishing the force necessary to safe convoy. . The'Brltish came to it only upon condition that' the United States navy could furnish ships to help In making it, effec tive. The good results justified the policy which Wilson believed In for two - years - before naval statesmen saw its wisdom. "That proof of Mr. Wilson as strategist was but one of seve ral. Wny don't : the allies .shut up the hornets in their nests.?' he asked me one day a a cabinet meeting when Ambassador Page's confidential letters of larger sink ings by U-boats than had been published, was read. . .. "Mr. Wilson said the British at -5'-' "f' w K H " T" - w lU ; Don't be Operated Upbh BOOT subinit to a hospital operation for Piles or other Rectal or Colon ailment It Is expensive, n'nfuL dangerous and, as I have proved S i&nl absolutely UNNECES SARY. My famous treatment Js admttt eJ by eminent proctologists as the most "alive known. No confinement to bed or room: DO MrrTwUe. IT is Fimncu.7 -. i-. rrtvaA am rabeafa tee. itetaii torn fyrapto-i. I rt I f ; IS the beginning- of - the war should have mined, the English channel so ! ho "submarine ; could 'pass through It,! and thai fsteps -shoald be taken to prevent them making their escape and' gehlng nto the Atlantic ocean.", Daniels says! he reported to Wil son, "within a 'few' days after the United States entered the war that the bureau of ordnance was work ing 'on a plan to carry out his idea to shut up the submarines in their own waters. "He was glad," the article reads, "and wished very support and assistance given to the only prac ticable and effective plan to pre vent U-boat sinkings. " "When three months passed by and the British admiralty had de clined to permit the laying of mines in the English channel and in the North sea, holding that it was impracticable. President "Wil son was so astounded and had such a strong feeling that they were losing the war by a lack of boldness, he sent a wire to the naval representative in London, in which he said: 'From the begin ning of the war, I have been great ly surprised at the failure of the British admiralty to use Great Britain's "great naval superiority in an effective 'way. In the pres ence of the present submarine emergency they are heipless to the point of panic. Every plan we suggest, they reject for some reas on of prudence. In my view this is not a time for prudence, but for boldness, even at the cost of great losses. " Daniels then quotes Wilson as saying: " 'The admiralty was very slow to adopt the protection of the c6n voy.and is not now, I judge, pro tecting convoys on adequate scale within the danger zone, seeming to keep small craft with the grand fleet.' "It required months for the British Admiralty and the naval representatives in London to learn that President Wilson knew more about preventing a U-boat victory than the naval leaders of both countries, strange as that may seem.1 Daniels says it was: just nine days after the United States en tered the war that the bureau of ordnance submitted a memoran dum to "stop the submarines at their source," and suggesting that mine barriers be laid across . the North sea, the Adriatic and ' the Dardanelles. The president was happy that a practical plan, with expert methods, could carry out what he had 16ng felt to be the chief essential naval service. The naval representative in London was cabled. Two days later the answer came, as follows: ' 'To absolutely blockade the German and Belgium coast against the entrance of submarines has been found to be quite impos sible. "On May 19, the plans were out lined in detail by the head of the bureau of ordnance and I cabled the American naval representative Much opinion in favor of concert ed action by the allies to establish a complete . barrier across the North sea, Scotland to Norway, either direct or, via Shetlands, to prevent the egress of German sub marines "The disappointing answer came and President Wilson was irritated by, it: 'From all experiences ad miralty considers -project of at tempting to close exit to North sea to enemy submarines by the method suggested to be quite Im practicable.. Project has been previously considered and aban doned.' It could not be done in British waters without British consent. The refusal only stimu lated the bureau of ordnance to prove Its practicability." Wilson backed the bureau and navy to the full, Daniels saya. A little more than a month after his cable to London, expressing his disappointment at .the admiralty's failure to adopt methods to defeat the U-boats, the American fleet was assembled In the York river. The fighting speech Wilson made to the officers , of the American navy was kept secret for two years. He Is qudted by Daniels: "His voice rang out: 'We have got to throw tradition to the wind.' He was talking to men with whom tradition was a kind of religion. He referred to the fact that every time 'we have suggested anything to the British admiralty' the re ply had eome 'back thac virtually amounted to this, that 'it has nev er been done that way.' "With tire In his eye, Mr. Wil son went on: 'I felt like saying. "Well, nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now" and he Issued the challenge: 'I should like to see something unusual happen, some thing that was never d6ne berore. Please leave out of ydUr vocabu lary altogether the word "prud ent." 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Doheny, charged with conspiracy to defraud the government of naval oil reserves, are shown leaving the courthouse at Wash ington on their way to lunch. -By Ch'artcs P. Stewart. . , Central Prr- Staff Correspondent '! WASHINGTON, Dec. ' 6. The ' defense of Edward L. Doheny and ex-Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall in face of the government' conspiracy charge against them here is in sharp coutrast to. the defense .of ex-Attorney General . Daugherty and ex-Alien Property Custodian Miller, at their recent conspiracy trial in New YoTk. f The Daugherty-Miller fight wass a rear guard action in retreat;1 Doheny and Fall stand their ground. They show their teeth, and bite when their turn comes. "Or course he's pitiful," admit ted ' U. S. District Attorney BuCk ner of Daugherty, with his swollen eye, his snuffling cold and his bowed head. the very picture of a broken old man. "Poor little Tom Miller." said Buckner of the ex-alien property custodian aiot that Miller 13 a small man physically, but Buckner was referring to his estimate of Miller's calibre. Doheny and Fall are old. too but warlike. It Isn't difficult, as they sit, bristling, in the District of Colum bia supreme court room to envis age Doheny as the old tiine pros capacity 5 to, V 1 mm, U t ' U u V 1 pector, six-shooter in his belt, or Fall, as a territorial judge, enforc ing his, own decrees with his own Winchester in his own hands, which is just what he's Jdone in his day, when his marshal was slack on the job. ) There's no softness about Do heny and Fall, as. there proved-" to be about Daugherty and Miller. They're two typical old hard' shells If ever there was a pair. Fall, with a record as a lawyer, on the .bench, in the senate, and as a cab inet member, has a superficial fin ish which Doheny. lacks, but It's plain on inspection that he's a tough old survival of the real frontier days underneath. Frank J. Hogan, of counsel for Doheny, is considered the most pugnacious lawyer at the District of Columbia bar. Wilton Lambert and Col. Henry Wise, Fall's attorneys, are for ensic scrappers, too. but Hogan doesn't stick at hurling inkstands when occasion arises. He more than held his own in such an en counters in one of the congres sional committee rooms, during an investigation of District of Colum bia Commissioner F. A. Fenning, HOUSEWARES for Christmas Gifts appreciated by women are the ones which LIGHTEN HOUSEWORK Percolators Electric Percolators, guaranteed 5 to 8 cup dQ 7C a Hot Cake Griddles of Aluminum and 7 Soapstdne D Electric Irons Universal Electric Irons,, guaranteed Something every woman flfl wishes to have fOm3M ? 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