London, Nov. 26.
The importance which infantry still plays in army organizations of all countries was stressed by Vi count Gort, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, in a speech in London last_night.
"There are those," he said, "who seek to suggest that the day of the infantry has passed its zenith and' must now give way to scientific progress, However attractive this thesis may be, no general staff of any nation has yet been able to accept it blindfold gor the simple reason that it has not been borne out by recent wars.
"In Abyssinia, Spain and China the lion's share of the fighting has gone to the infantry, and of the troops concentrated by the German General Staff this year the greatest part were infantry formations.""—Reuter.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.