The sight was to me a bewildering illustration of what English "muddling" could do when put to the test.

On my return to London, Dr.Page, the late American Ambassador, who during the years when America was still neutral had managed, notwithstanding, to win all our hearts, gave me an account of the experience of certain American officers in the same British bases, and the impression made on them.

"They came here afterwards on their way home," he said--I well remember his phrase, "with the eyes starting out of their heads, and with reports that will transform all our similar work at home." So that we may perhaps trace some at least of those large and admirable conceptions of Base needs and Base management, with which the American Army prepared its way in France, to these early American visits and reports, as well as to the native American genius for organisation and the generosity of American finance.
But if the spectacle of "the back of the Army" was a wonderful one in 1916, it became doubly wonderful before the end of the war.

The feeding strength of our forces in France rose to a total approaching 2,700,000 men.

The Commander-in-Chief tries to make the British public understand something of what this figure means.