Cleveland County herald., 1918-04-11
UNITED STATES AT
 WAR ONE YEAR
Expansion of Armed Forces Out
 standing Feature of Period.
1,528,924 MEN IN THE ARMY
Official Review of Twelve Months Activities Shove What Various Departments of Government
 Have Done.

The United States has been an ac- tive participant in the great world war for one year. At the opening of the second year the government commit tee on public information has issued review of the first twelve months of hostilities. showing what has been done by various branches of the gov ernment to place the United States In a position to play an effective part in the ultimate defeat of Germany and her allies. The committee on public information says that all statements contained in the following summary of the review are authorized by the war department, navy department, United States shipping board and treasury department.
 The outstanding feature of the first year of war, it is pointed out in the review, has been the transfor- nation of the standing army and Ma tional Guard. composed of e,524 off cers and 202,510 men into fighting force that now aggregates 123,SO of fcers and 1,52s924 enlisted men.
 statement of the adjutant general shows that the regular army which in April, 1917, comprised 5,791 officers and 121, ,797 men, now is made up of 10,698 officers and 503, 3,142 men. The National Guard in April, 1917, includ- ed 3,733 officers and 7e,713 men, while now 1t comprises 16,893 officers and 5S3 men. The reserve corps In service one year ago included 4,O0O men. Now 1t includes 96,210 officers and 77,360 men. The National army, which did not exist one year ago, now includes 516,839 men.
 A substantial vanguard (military expedency prohibiting publication of actual numbers) of this army is meet ing the enemy in France today or is en- cainped there awaiting the call to the trenches; in 16 cantonments and 16 camps and on numerous aviation fields and in variety of other schools in all parts of the United States the men of the remaining army are hardening and training for their part in the great contest overseas.
 Behind the activities of this vast force lies a grest industry organized to produce an adequate supply of mu- nitions, equipment, and provisions, and to provide transportation to the firing line almost every branch of essential industry of the country hay- ing been drawn upon to produce these material requirements.
 Expeditionary Forces.
 Military necessity particularly for bids a detailed review of the activities of the American expeditionary forces.
 General Pershing and his staff ar rived in Paris on June fl, 1917, 69 first American troops arrived in France on June 26. On July 4, in eel ebration of our natal day and new fight for liberty. American troops pa raded the streets of Paris and were greeted as the forerunners of great American armies and vast quantities of supplies and ammunitions.
 On October 10, 1917, 1S7 days after the war was declared, American sol diers went on the firing line. In Jan uary American soldiers took over per manently a part of the line as an American sector, and this line is grad ually lengthening.
 Behind the fighting line in France the American forces have scientifically prepared a groundwork of camps, con- munications, supply bases, and works in anticipation of operations by the full force of the army. They are building and have built railroads, hos pitals, ordnance bases, @and docks in Fraase. They have constructed i'm mcnse barracks, erected sawmills, re- claimed agricultural lands, and car ried forward many incidental enter prises.
 The construction of an ordnance base in France, costing S25,OO0,OO is now well under way. Great quantities of material used in the foreign con struction work have been shipped from the United States-from fabricated ironwork for an ordnance shop to nails and crossties for railroads, and even the piles to build docks.
 All the while there has been fairly even flow of men and materials from the United States to France. The men in the trenches, back of the lines, on the construction projects and in the hospitals have been steadily supplied. Our losses at sea, in men and mate- rials, have been gratifyingly small. The greatest single loss occurred on February 5, when the British ship Tuscania was torpedoed and sunk. The bodies of IA soldiers, en route to France, have been found and 55 others were still missing on March 16.
 To secure an adequate number of competent officers to lead the new armies various plans were devised. Two classes at West Point were grad uated in advance of the usual gradu- ating dates and special examinations were held in various parts of the coun- try for appointments from civil life. Three series of officers training camps have been held. Of 63,2O3 candidates In the first two series of camps 44,57S RNI