Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 190, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1918 — FRENCH PREMIER SEES VICTORY WITHIN A YEAR [ARTICLE]

FRENCH PREMIER SEES VICTORY WITHIN A YEAR

Paris, Aug. 20.1 t is the belief of Premier Clemenceau that a complete triumph will be won during the present year by the arms of the entente allies, and that the war will have ended before another year has passed, according to the understanding reached by United States Senator J. Hamilton Lewis of Illinois of remarks of the premier during a lengthy conversation with him. The gist of the conversation, with the consent of M. Clemenceau, has been given to the Associated Press by Senator Lewis. Premier Clemenceau paid high tribute to President Wilson as''a constructive leader and said he was greatly impressed with Newton D. Baker, the American secretary of war, as a man of great resource. The premier declared that when the American troops arrived, uncertainty existed as to whether they could bring their undoubted courage into immediate action after having been trained to a life of peace. The first showing of the American troops had amazed France with their bravery and soldierly perfection, he said. The premier declared that the work of the American troops on the battlefield did more to terrorize Germany than any other thing the enemy has met. He said France had every confidence now that this war was on the way to immediate victory.