Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 110, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1917 — ALLIES CAN HOLD UNTIL AMERICA ENTERS [ARTICLE]

ALLIES CAN HOLD UNTIL AMERICA ENTERS

President Wilson Believes British and French Can Hold Out Until America Gets In. Washington, D. C., May 29. —President' Wilson is convinced that the British and French will be able to stand their ground until the United States can get in with 1,000,000 or 2,000,000 men and help roll the Germans back to the’ Rhine. That will not be this year and possibly not next year, for the administration does not expect to have more than 500,000 American soldiers in France by the beginning of the spring operations in 1918. It does, however, plan to pour 1,000,000 men into Fiance next year and another 1,000,000 the following year, if the war continues that long. The war department issued another emergency call today for 100,000 more volunteers for the regular army to fill up fifty-one new regiments now being foimed. They are wanted at once. •That the United States must save the allies from defeat and that it may tike from three to five years to accomplish the task is now the basis of all calculations on the war program, according to information forthcoming from 1 a high official source today. The collapse of Russia alone as a military factor is reckbned as equivalent to a two year's prolongation of the conflict if Germany is to be vanquished. An understanding is that the British and French will expend every ounce of their available resources to hold Hindenburg in check this year and that next year the United States will take over a large section of the western front. The administration takes the position that despite the perils of the situation, measures conceived in panic and carried out in haste would only invite disaster, and that the wiser plan is to prepare carefully and fully to perform a long and arduous task.