Republican farmer., 1918-08-09

served to focus attention upon the great accomplishments of the War Department under the direction of Secretary Baker.
 At the request of the. House CeEn- mittee on Military Affairs the Secre- tary submitted to Congress sum mary of the progress made during the 15 months America has been at war. The manner in which the statement was received is revealed in the fol- lowing letter: July g. 1918.
 Hon. Newton D. Baker, e Secretary of War,
 Washington, D. C.:
 | Dear MT. Secretary: Your letter, in response to one from me requesting summary of military achievements since the declaration of war, and par | ticularly during the past 12 months, was read to the Committee on Mili- tary Affairs at a meeting this week. At this meeting there were 1s out of total membership of 21, present. Upon motion of MT. Kahn, of Cali fornia, I was unanimously instructed, as chairman of the committee, to ex- tend to you and your department our
 hearty congratulations upon the re-
 markable accomplishments as dis closed by your very interesting letter | I was further instructed to place these facts in the Congressional Rec ord.
 take great personal pleasure in
 communicating to you this action or
 the committee.
 l With highest regards, l am Yours, very sincerely, 1 S. H. DENT, JR. l s,- Chairman. The secretary's letter which drew
 forth the tribute quoted above dis closed:
 | Since April 6, 1917, the Regular Army has increased from 5,791 off,
 cers and 121,797 enlisted men to H.
 465 officers and 514,376 enlisted men; the National Guard in Federal ser vice, from 3,753 officers and 76,713 enlisted men to 17,070 officers and
 417,441 enlisted men; the Reserve Corps in actual service has increased from 4,0o0 enlisted men to 31,96s
 officers and 7S,560 enlisted men; the National Army has been created
 with an enlisted force of approxi-
 mately 100000 men.
 The army has increased in four
 teen months from 9,524 officers and 202,51O enlisted men to approximate ly 16O,400 officers and 100000 en- listed men.
 The number of men in France ol
 en route to France. including com batants, medical service, service fol !. supply, and all the units which go to
 make up an entire army, is on July l
 practically 100000 men. :. The death rate per thousand among all troops-Regulars, Nationa . Army, and National Guard-in tht United States for the week ending : May 31 was 4.S9, and for the weel ; ending June ', ALA. The death rat for disease only among all troops il
 the United States for the week end . ing June was 3.16, which is stil lower than that of the preceding l week (3.2), which was then the rec ord low rate since that of November 2, 1917. Transportation in France: Witt the completion of the organization O new regiments and 19 battalions O , railway engineers there will be ore } 45,000 Americans engaged in railroad z construction and operation in France Nine regiments of railway engineer } have been in France since last Au 3 gust.
 l There have been produced for tn : railroad operations of the War De g. partment in France more than 22. [ 000standard guage and 50 c. M l freight cars and more than 1,60( s standard guage and 60 c. M. loco l motives. In addition to this. pur - chases of both cars and locomotive [ have been made abroad. }, A double line of railroad communf
 cation has been secured from tn
 French by Army Engineers, extend
 ing from the coast of France to tn
 battle front, including the construc
 tion of hundreds of miles of trackag
 for yards and the necessary sfdings switches, etc.
 Aircraft production (trainfns
 planes, bombing planes. comba planes, and guns therefore. and pro ; duction of Liberty engines.)
 Deliveries of elementary training planes to June 8 1, ,49 y Deliveries of advanced training 5 planes to June S....,.... S2 3 The average weekly production o : advanced-training planes durin April was 22; during May was 45 l. week ending June was IS. To June 8, 2S6 combat planes wer delivered. The weekly average 0 = this typo of machine in April was 5 ! in May, 38; and for the week endin z June was 80.
 Six thousand eight hundred an II eighty elementary training engine were delivered to June 8; 2,133 ad Il vanced-training engines were deliver z ed to same date.
 More than 2,000 Liberty engine :, have now been delivered to the Ar :. my and the Navy. The averag e weekly production in April was 96, i : May 143 and in the first week c June 115.
 o Thirty-seven thousand two hun . dred and fifty machine guns were de
 Nvered for~use on aeroplanes befor
 June 8. .....-
 Rifles and ammunition: More tha
 1,3oo.000 rifles were produced i 11 America and delivered between tn declaration of war and June 1 of thl
 year.
 ,l Deliveries of the new Unite = States model 1917, the so-cal1ed mod flied Enfield have passed the mi lion mark In the two weeks pre-
 ceding June more than 66.000 r 'S fles were delivered. Sufficient IT / fles are being received now to equi se an Army division every three days.
 Ordnance supplies, artillery, an et Browning guns, etc.: As to machin ld guns, heavy Browning guns for ir f. struction purposes are in every Ma n, tiona! Guard camp and National Al nj in