Bisbee daily review., 1918-04-07
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 United tSates into the war finds the great sources of the country just com ing into the struggle but rapidly be- ing prepared.
 The achievements of the first year are chiefly divided between the army, which has been supplying and train ing fighting forces; the navy, which has been hunting the submarine and conveying troops and supplies to Eu- rope, the shipping board, which has been building a merchant marine and the treasury, which has been advanc- ing credits to the allies.
 In oil other departments of the gov ernment there has been tremendous effort to bring all the force of the country's resources and power to the aid of the actual fighting machine.
 For military reasons it is not per missible to state the exact number Of American troops in France with Gen. ernal Pershing's expedition, but Sec retary Baker, in recent testimony be- for the senate military committee, pre- dicted half a million men would be there early this year and that another million would be ready to go during the year.
 American troops have taken up sew eral positions on the fighting line in France. They have occupied a sector of their own northwest of Toul, and have had numerous encounters with the Germans. Official statements British and German army headquart- CTS have shown that certain American fighting forces were thrown into the battle brought on by the great Ger man offensive this spring, the British war office first reporting them as fighting shoulder to shoulder with the British and French troops in the vicl- nifty of Rove.
 By referring to the combined forces of the regular army and national guard a year ago.. and comparing the strength of the regular army now, the national guard mustered into federal service. and the men of the first draft in cantonments, it is apparent that the total number of ready fighting men has been increased from a meag- re two hundred thousand to something like a million and half, with about ten million men registered under the draft still available for calls to the colors.
 Military experts have estimated that should the war be prolonged and Il became necessary for the United States to assume the burden of carry ing on the conflict an army of five million men would not be improbable. The immense and sudden expansion of the army has not been without criticism, but it is declared this was
 fnT1 Q fighting force of nation traditional ly welded to the pursuits of peace.
 The expansion of the naval forces has been characterized in congress by many as praiseworthy. The exact de- tails, here too, are shrouded in secrecy as a military measure, but 1t Is well known that an emergency war build ing program has been pushed With such rapidity that the United States is well on the way to a place second only to Great Britain as naval force, and that in destroyers alone-most proved and deadly weapon of the sub marine-the navy by next year will have the greatset fleet on the seven seas. Since the United tSates went to war, the navy has placed contracts for practically a thousand vessels, and besides that took charge of repairing the seized German and Austrian ships damaged by their crews at the orders of the German government.
 The case of the great liner Vater- land, now the United States ship Levi athan' is a fair example of the efflci- ency and speed with which the naval engineers conducted that work. When the Germans fainished their work ot destruction the Vaterland's command CT remarked he would take his hat off to the Americans who could put the ship in shape in time to be of any service.
 Within six months from the time his words were spoken the Vaterland was in running order and since, the navy has announced, has carried num- bers of American troops and great quantities of supplies to the fighting lines in France
 By taking the ships and men of the coast guard into its fleets, by the merging of naval volunteers and naval militia, and with the growth of the its forces practically five times since llt CDuuLIN Mtul lO wal.
 In it's immense task of conveying troops there have been some losses, notably the Tuscania and the Antilles, but the losses of life have been for tunately small in comparison with the numbers of troops transported. At the same time the American destroy CTS, working with the British in the submarine zone, hvae made themselves a terror to the undersea boats. How many of these craft they have ac- counted for remains a military secret.
 The treasury, concerned with financ- ing the war. has raised from Liberty bonds and war savings stomp sales more than SS,0O0, ,OO0.O GOO and on this, the first anniversary of the declara- tion of the war on Germany, is launch ing the third Liberty loan. Treasury estimates put the expense of the first year of the war at about S12,000.006,- 900 exclusive of the advances to the allies.
 These advances to all the allies have totalled, up to the close of March. S4960. .60O,OO0 The United States has been secured with the bonds Or obligations Uf the countries to which the money was advanced More than S125.OOO,OOO of the sum