The Nevada County picayune., 1918-04-11
UNITED STATES AT
 WAR ONE YEAR
Expansion of Armed Forces Out
 standing Feature of Period.
t,528,924 MEN IN THE ARMY
e3nacist Review of Twelve Months Activities Shows What Various Departments of Government
 Have Done.

rafve participant in the great world war for one year. At the opening of the second year the government commit Dee on public information has issued neview of the first twelve months of Possibilities, showing what has been Ssoae by various branches of the gov sTument to place the United States in position to play an effective part in Stse ultimate defeat of Germany and der allies. The committee on public Reformation says that all statements contained in the following summary of sIae review are authorized by the war stepartment. navy department. United St&tes shipping board and treasury department.
 The outstanding feature of the first year of war, 1t is pointed out aa the review, has been the transfor- uaation of the standing army and Ma xHonnl Guard, composed of 9,524 off aers and 202,510 men into fighting force that now aggregates 123,SOl of HceEs and i,52S924 enlisted men.
 X statement of the adjutant general shows that the regulaI army which in April, 1917, comprised 5.791 officers and 121 TOT men. now ss made up of l0,693 officers and 503, 1i2 men. The National Guard in April, 1917. includ- ed 3.733 officers and 76,Tt3 men. while aow It comprises 16,S93 officers and S37 ,5S3 men. The reserve corps in service one year ago included 1000 men Now Ii includes 96,2l0 officers a0d - 360 men. The National army, which did not exist one year ago. now inclndes 516S39 men.
 A substantial vanguard (military expediency prohibiting publication of actual numbers) of this army Is meet fng the enemy in France today or is en- camped there awaiting the call to the ffrenehe In 16 eantonments and l6 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 0f this vast force lies d great industry organized 4o produce an adequate supply of mu- nitions, equipment. and provisions. and to provide transportation to the Gring 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 detailed review of the activities of the American eXpcdiuonary forces.
 General Pershing and his staff ar- rived in Paris on June 14, 1917, 69 sauys after the declaration of war. The first American troops arrived Ap Srance on June 26. On July 1. in eel duration of our natal day and a new fight for liberty American troops pa. xaded 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, ls7 days after 7he War was declared. American sol s7lers went on the firing line. In Jan FIsry American soldiers took over per Inanently part of the line as m American sector, and this line is grad unlIy lengthenng.
 Behind the fighting line in France The American forces have scientifically prepared a groundwork Of camps. com nupications, supply bases and works ,E anticipation of operations by the fau force of the army. They are huldlng and have built railroads. hos aHais. ordnance bases. and docks in <'rauce. They have constructed i'm .nezse barracks, erected sswmills, re -,afmed agricultural lands, and car .ried forward many incidental enter .oriSes-
 The construction of an ordnance base in France, costing $25.000000, is n8s well under way. Great quantities e,f material used in the foreign con g1ruction work have been shipped from Ae United States from fabricated 5T0nwerk for an ordnance shop to nails and erosSties for railroads, and even ehe pies tn build docks.
 Al the while there has been q fairly tsven flow of men and materials from E1le Uhitcd States to France. The men 1u The trenches, back of the lines, on 1aSs construction projects and in the hospitals have been steadily supplied. 0uE losses at sea, in men and mate Tials have been gratifyingly small Ihs greatest single loss occurred on Esarusry 5, when the British ship Tuscanis was torpedoed and sunk TAs bodies of IA soldiers, en route to Ss1sce, have been found and 55 others ware still missing on March 16.
 Te secure an adequate number of esaMPetent officers to lead the new oxzr1ies various plans were devised Two classes at West Point were grad tMEeye ia advance of the usual gradu- msaxs 4stes and special examinations w~re held in various parts of the coun. nrg for appointments from civil life. Tssree series of officers training camps Nave been held Of 63 203 candidates