. Official proceedings . build tremendous terminal yards,storage depots ,and everything of that kind, out of nothing andall in practically a year and a quarter. And it was a tremen-dous and effective machine at the time the armistice put anend to it. At Col. McCreas suggestion I borrowed from him thissmall map of France which may help you to visualize moreclearly rhe railroad situation so far as it was affected by thedemand of the American army. The territory between thefrontier and the sea was divided into what we called threeSections, the Advance Section, General Pershings headquar-ters at C
. Official proceedings . build tremendous terminal yards,storage depots ,and everything of that kind, out of nothing andall in practically a year and a quarter. And it was a tremen-dous and effective machine at the time the armistice put anend to it. At Col. McCreas suggestion I borrowed from him thissmall map of France which may help you to visualize moreclearly rhe railroad situation so far as it was affected by thedemand of the American army. The territory between thefrontier and the sea was divided into what we called threeSections, the Advance Section, General Pershings headquar-ters at Chaumont; the Intermediate back to the sea shore, andthese Base Sections scattered along the sea shore and at Mar-seilles on the Mediterranean. The requirement General Per-shing established was that at all times we should have in France90 davs supplies for whatever number of men happened to bein France. The supplies were distributed among these threedistricts. Advance, Intermediate and Base sections. The gen- 85 Frankfort. oral scheme was this, that as ships came in to these differentports the essential thing was tQ unload the ships promptly, be-cause the whole thing depended on ocean transportation. Thecargo could he taken out of the ship more promptly than itcould be hauled into the interior. For that reason these largeBase Section storage depots were established only a few milesfrom the base and whatever could not he immediately trans-ported into the interior was stored there and they hecame oftremendous magnitude before the armistice. Then as thingscould be transported away from the ports and were not imme-diately needed in the advance sections they were stored in theseintermediate storage depots. Rase section Xo. 6 (Marseilles)was not used until July, 10,18, because the naval officers wouldnot permit any transports to he taken into the Mediterraneanuntil July on account of the submarines and then only underprotest. Marseilles had the great advantage that it was onlyabout 30
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