The Kennewick Courier Reporter

Men answered their names in voices that quivered with emotion.

Busy with War Plans

Detailed plans of the war department for raising an army numbering millions if that is necessary "to bring the government of the German empire to terms" were placed in President Wilson's hands today in the form of a bill prepared by the general staff and reviewed and revised in part by Secretary Baker and the general officers who are his military advisers. The president, as commander in chief, already has approved the basis adopted for the war army. Secretary Baker said today the measure would go to the house and senate committees as soon as the war resolution was adopted. Major General Scott, chief of staff, will explain the plan and the military reasons for the need to train the number of men the bill will produce. This is believed to be not less than 2,000,000 to be trained within two years.

Army officers indicated today that the government's policy leaves no place for volunteer forces. They are prepared also to urge against any premature effort to send an army abroad to fight. To be of any aid in the world struggle, they say, only a very considerable force of fully trained and highly equipped and organized troops, with adequate independent supply lines, should go to Europe. To do otherwise, one officer declared, might make American troops a menace rather than an aid to the entente. It would further tax the already heavily strained French and British supply systems.