The Monticellonian., 1918-04-12
FIRST YEAR 0F
 WAR REVIEWED
Achievements of United States Accounted in Official State-
 meniS.
GREAT ARMY IN TRAINING

Land Forces Now Aggregate 123,8o1
 Officers and 1,52a,924 Enlisted
 Men-Navy Personnel Is
 TripIed.
 The United States Is now entering upon it's second year of war. On the first anniversary of the beginning of hostilities between this country and Germany, the people are interested in knowing what has been done by the United States in waging and prepar- ing to wage war upon the forces of Prussian autocracy. The committee on public information of the United States government. in d review of the first year of the war, gives q resume of the activities of the various de partments of the government as they are concerned with prosecution of the war. The committee announces that all statements made are authorized by the war department, the navy de partment, the United States shipping board and the 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 9,524 off cers and 202.510 men into a fighting force that now aggregates 123, ,S01 of ficers and 1,52S.924 enlisted men.
 A 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 10.69S officers and 503. 142 men. The National Guard in April, 1917, includ- ed 3,T33 officers and 16,713 men, while now it comprises 16,S93 officers and 43f, ,5S3 men. The reserve corps in service one year ago included 1000 men. Now it includes 96,210 officers and 7T,360 men. The National army. which did not exist one year ago, now includes 516,S39 men.
 X substantial vanguard (military expediency prohibiting publication of actual numbers) of this army is meet ing the enemy in France today or is en- eamped there awaiting the call to the trenches; in Is 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 great 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 q detailed review of the activities of the American expeditionary forces.
 General Pershing and his staff ar rived in Paris on June II. 1917. 69 days after the declaration of war. The first American troops arrived in France on June 26 On July 4, in eel ebration of our natal day and a 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 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, com 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 France They have constructed im- mense barracks. erected sawmills re- claimed agricultural lands, and car ried forward many incidental enter prises.
 The COnslruCtlon ol dn OIuIlduce sbase in France, costing $25,000,00O, 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
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